Review: Sunwayman D40A 4xAA XM-L2 Flashlight

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now we know.
lesson learned: whenever there is cool light with crazy low price in FT, grab it within 1 day or chance is gone :smiley:

I grabbed one from WB from the group buy. Awesome flashlight, I really like the location and UI of the buttons. The size is a little odd from what I’am use to, but easy to grip and control. Well thought out quality flashlight from SW.
I wonder if MAP is what made the price increase. Has anyone contacted fasttech to see if they could offer a special code that could be used to get the old price. Without posting the final price.

With coupon code, it still is about $58 at doingoutdoor. Will he be next?

Got mine from WB during that computer glitch too!

Pl don’t put pricing as agreed before… MAP issue might be triggered… be low profile…

luckily I got it early…

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Why is it so high?? A nicely engineered battery eater. >.<

:bigsmile:

Looks like a great little light.

Great review.

I couldn’t stand it so I ordered one from FT before the price increase. Hope everything is ok. Ordered it 4 days ago and it still says it is processing at FT. It does say funds were collected. Kinda strange as everything else I have ordered from FT has shipped in one day. Maybe they ran out and had to order some more and Sunwayman lowered the boom on them for selling so cheap.

Yep, Thats a big jump. I wrote them about it to see if they would have code like with nitecore to bring us good price back.

To me, it ain’t worth 80 dollars. The EA4W I got for just $46.90 is superior as far as pricing is concerned. I wouldn’t purchase SWM til it goes back to $50 price range.

+1

Adding items to cart & very near to make the payment & saw the pricing :weary:

Really hope they will offer good price coupon for Sunwayman

XM-L2 3C emitter waiting to be transplanted in though :expressionless:

I ordered it a week ago from FT, got a shipping notice yesterday. For FT it is indeed slow.

Got mine from WB, took about 10 days.

Really like it, replaces my EA4 as favourite AA-light!

My first multi AA’s flashlight.
I love it!

Someone just reported his D40A battery shorted. Check your D40A for any potential issue especially the insulator of the positive spring. As picture below shows, the spring and insulator were kind of melted due to very high heat.

Oh no!! The burn marks, and that was with eneloops too! :~

LOL, maybe the price will come back down now.

Has it shorted or was it a bad contact causing the damage?

I’m still pretty upset by the price increase. I really wanted one. Just to show my displeasure with FastTech, I just placed a $225+/- order with them that DID NOT include the D40A. That will teach those blankety-blanks not to mess with me!

Besides some ancillary BS, the order includes-

Nitecore EA4W
SWM C10R
SWM M11R
X-Power Galaxy
Ultrafire UF-H2B
and some Cree XM-L Zoomer

Also just picked up a P-Rocket from Shiningbeam, so, needless to say, when Mrs. Cone figures all this out… Oh, boy!