These measure 65.02mm long, and that's a gap of right at 1/4" at the tail. I actually had to stretch the springs A LOT to get a tight enough fit with these unprotected cells. From the + to the spring squashed flat is 2.76" (or 70.104mm). And due to the contact on the + end having a hollow middle, a button top cell won't waste any of the available space.
Foy’s review tested some 70mm long cells and according to him they work ok.
Solarforce is on a 2 week vacation starting on the 14th, orders will be shipped when they return according to a post by them.
I ordered mine hours before they went on vacation, they got it out and it only took 6 days to get to me. Sweet huh? Now I’m stuck away from home and can’t play with it.
On the good side, my wife is recovering nicely from surgery, soaking up Morphine and Dilaudid and sleeping like a baby.
How can they claim “World’s first MT-G2 LED flashlight!”? Crelant is shipping one, as is SolarForce, and maybe Niwalker, whereas what’s on their webpage looks like a crude drawing?
Yes agreed on the first MT-G2 light thing - but I just updated my post (after I was quoted) I guess they just left the original blurb the same because they were going to use the MK-R led, so it would have been the first MK-R light……
Yes its a cad drawing proof of concept - Armytek lights are designed in Canada, they allow a lot of customer input as they design and produce their lights so they change things with customer input - also they are some of the best made lights out there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvA79TAMu6c
I like armytek brand in general, but that page for their MTG light raises more questions than answers.
That image appears to merely be a rendering of their Barracuda. Which is a great light, but not new. So is it just an MTG version of the Barracuda? Or a legit unique whole new model?
This will obviously not be the first MTG on the market, and those specs don’t really make sense to me. How do they plan to drive the MTG on 2 li-ions? I was under the impression 3 was the minimum to drive this emitter well for any length of time.
Seems like they are playing catch up. Better to slow down, do it right, and bring it to market when its a mature product worth buying. I don’t see the point in rushing a halfassed MTG light to market just to say “look everybody we gots tha newest badazz MTGz yo!” (Listening crelant?)
+1. Exactly what I was thinking. They see a few MT-G2 lights and knock out a CAD drawing (and a price!!) without, it seems to me, too much homework. 2x18650’s will struggle, I would imagine.
That’s what I like about Niwalker. It’s probably about six months since they mooted the idea of a light with this emitter. In the meantime they have been sending Selfbuilt engineering samples, and ironing out any issues. Better to be late and get it right, than early and crap.
There's only two things about it I would change, one bugs me pretty bad, and the other is just something to make it perfect. First, the annoying thing, is the tailcap clickie. Really awkward and inconvenient in a light this big. The 'just to make it perfect' thing, would be to have it take 4 cells instead of 3. That's not a lot to find wrong from somebody who usually wants to change everything.
i dont mind the tailcap clicky - my defiant 3d has one and is even bigger than the s2200
i do like 4 cell lights myself - would another cell in series add anything? i guess it would depend on the driver… more efficiency depending on the driver?
im going to add this to my “purchase list” if i still want it unconditionally after memorial day when solarforce flashlight sales comes back i will buy