US - Defiant ArmorMax 3D Tactical Flashlight - 3D XML light $29.97 - GET BACK TO HD NOW!!!!

I’m sure someone here like an Rdfronty can do that well enough though.

Thanks for the pics O-L.

I have to admit, I wasn’t tempted by the 3C - but this one is VERY tempting to buy and hot rod.

But I won’t, for now, due to size.

In the mean time, even though you’ll all think I’m nuts, I will pray that they make a 3xD zoomie w/ 60mm lens of similar quality :bigsmile:

>>>>Anyone able to do some light output measurements?

Hopefully someone with a light-measuring sphere (or bathroom) will post actual lumen output, but my 3C moirders the 3D in throw, even on a white wall (and tested outside last night). I don’t have the equipment for a real lumen readout. For my eyeball test, 3D had the brand-new defiant batteries with maybe 3 minutes of run time on them; 3C was with only one 18650 (with the spacer mod), a fully charged fasttech unprotected Samsung 2600 pink.

The 18650 spacer mod for the 3C is really simple to do and totally worth it. Lightens up the weight considerably and no more throwaway alkalines! (You can also just screw a 26650 on to the 3C head with the BLF A8 battery tube.)

Haven’t tried anything with the 3D tube yet, but it’s cavernous!

having some trouble hunting down a ucl for this :frowning:

i haven’t found anything yet either. maybe we should ask phil from ebay???

Thanks! Kinda glad it does not! :slight_smile:

ID of the 3D tube?

Sure hope WWEFANS will get back from holiday to his PMs - I wanna inexpensive A8 body!

i sent him a message

ID of the 3D tube? I have not measured, but I can tell you it's the same (within a couple thou), as a Maglite D tube. A maglite switch fits in just like it would fit in a Maglite, with a hint of drag. A Maglite ID is like 34.15mm, if that helps.

Picked mine up!

Fall resistant to 9m!

Because fully loaded with 3D and the rubber caps

Just a few grams short of the BTU Shocker

if Arnold Schwarzenegger bought a flashlight… it would be this one

Ditto for his pal Sly as they both got big hands/wrists with Panerai Ergizianos that could only fit our ankles!

i wonder if there is anyway to get this driver in this host?

http://www.intl-outdoor.com/5a-3mode-2745v-circuit-board-p-547.html

and maybe run on 3 D nimh for loooooong runtime on low?

or this

http://www.intl-outdoor.com/9a-3mode-5512v-circuit-board-p-561.html

on 3x feilong 32650s? with an sst90?

just an idea

I snagged two of them at the Home Depot in Richardson, TX at Plano Rd & Buckingham. They were stored on the high boxes above the flashlight section. Dude with the Big Stairs got them down. BTW, they come six to a box, not five.

Both of mine were DOA due to the o-ring problem mentioned in post #19!!! Something tells me this is going to be causing Home Depot a LOT of grief.

Crammed it into the Sphere ’o Many Mysteries. Using their D batteries:

high: 540 lumens/2.3A
low: 158 lumens/0.6A - PWM 536 Hz
strobe: 7 Hz
cct: 5990K

With Imedeon 9500 mAh LSD NiMH cells:
high: 460 lumens/2.0A
low: 120 lumens/0.45A

BTW, the driver audibly sings on low.

thanks for the info! added to op

Measured the PWM freq on low: 536 Hz

Updated the measurement post with the new number.

Put the rubber bumpers on and it should weigh more than the Shocker.
Edit: Are they on there??? Can’t tell…
Edit2: Yeah looks like it’s on there. NVM :zipper_mouth_face:

I got five bad ones : :Sp

EDIT:

Fixed do to nottawhackjob post…grrr

Specifically the o-rings? Try tightening the tailcap with an extra ‘oomph’ at what seems like the end of its travel. That should allow the contact point to engage even though the o-ring initially blocked it.

The ArmorMax has a nice finish. Looking forward for more.

Also, when I took the tail cap apart, I bent the contact tab on the white clicky outwards, slightly…