Dudes… Trustfire gave Rey a hard time even when they only have to install Cree NW last time. BLF A8 - remember? Two months of yada yada - cannot source, not enough stock, need to order MOQ et al.
And they can’t even make this simple “bin change” right as some claimed NW are not quite NW at all.
Now, imagine how TF would deal with a whole new Nichia 219 which it does not have experience with. Who’s to know they would even source the right one - there are lots of Nichia’s emitter.
This is not my first order at aurabuy. They’re fast shippers, and have served me well in my previous orders.
Looking forward to take a play with this beauty! :bigsmile: Review coming!
i would definitely be interested if it had a NICHIA 219 or good NW XP-G2, and no blinkies, and 4 modes, (Moonlight, Low, Med, High) and able to run off both AAA or 10440s, and stil below 15 bucks. :bigsmile:
Does anyone have a flickering issue when turning this thing off? It causes mine to set another mode into memory and I’d like to fix this. Also does anyone know of a good high temp thread lube?
Mine flickers too. When I tighten the head all the way, it flashes and stays off. When I loosen the head and cycle through the modes, it’s at times very inconsistent. I think the spring at the end of the tailcap may be screwy, or just the driver board is flakey.
The head doesn’t sit tight on the body thread either.
I used a small pencil eraser at the end of a mechanical pencil to “clean” the contact on the head. I tend to do that with all my flashlights so that it makes for a cleaner contact. Didn’t help.
I mentioned this on another post, but the Preon P1 head fits on the Mini-03 body. it works, but also causes the head to cycle funky. Normally on a Preon P1 you can cycle it L-M-H twice, then F then S. But on the Mini-03 body it becomes very inconsistent with an additional strange flashing mode appearing H-M-L. New batteries didn’t make much difference. Swapping the head backs to the original bodies left them in a funky mode, but after some rest and cycling through the modes a few times, it went back to behaving normally on the Preon head. The Mini-03 is still semi-consistent.
All this doesn’t make any logical sense to me.
Personally, I wouldn’t recommend buying the Mini-03 as a budget EDC, but that’s just my opinion, after owning one. I think it looks nice, but the build quality is questionable. If you want something about that size and weight, using the Tank E09 head on a E10 body, mentioned on a BLF review is spot on. I think the Tank 007 E09 or E10 are better EDC lights in general. Maybe not as sexy looking. If you want sexy looking the Preon P1 is pretty good.