One of the tubes should be shorter. You may be thinking it is part of tube that has the "Trustfire TR-3T6" label on it. That tube piece should have a knurled section after the lable, but not before. The knurled section before the label is a separate, shorter section.
EDIT: The extension tube should have 2 knurled sections. The short tube will have one knurled section.
EDIT2: OK, looked at my light. You can't get 1S config with the stock tubes. At least, not without a spacer. Sorry for the confusion.
The driver will allegedly work down to 0.8V. AFAIK it has been confirmed to work on a single cell but you need some kind of spacer as there is ~25mm of space, so use your longest cell!
Although, I do not understand why you would want to run this thing on 1 cell. On high mode with 2 fresh cells I see ~2.25A on the tail, with 3 ~1.75A.
The driver will allegedly work down to 0.8V. AFAIK it has been confirmed to work on a single cell but you need some kind of spacer as there is ~25mm of space, so use your longest cell!
Although, I do not understand why you would want to run this thing on 1 cell. On high mode with 2 fresh cells I see ~2.25A on the tail, with 3 ~1.75A.
It is not going to last very long with 1 cell!
Why?, because it's more compact and I rarely use my lights on high. On low with one cell is uses about 200mA. Quite efficient for the amount of light it puts out. But mainly, if it runs on one cell, that tells me it has the "good" driver. The driver is tough and have some good flexability and can easily run it on Ni_mh cells.
No. Amazon changes the “default” seller all the time. Yesterday when I clicked on that link it was “IGet”, now it is “Yes Digi”. I have absolutely no way of knowing which actual vendor the light was purchased from.
Yes, the default seller changes if there are multiple sellers with the same price using Amazon fulfillment. To pick a specific seller go below the "Add to Cart" button click on the "...used & new" link as shown at the bottom of the picture below.
I got mine today, the packaging is nice, it is heavy and fairly well built, but it is not all that bright.
My custom MTG2 DD x2 IMR C8 is still brighter.
Mine came today but is defective. I cannot get the battery tube extension to thread onto the body. It appears to me that the thread pitch is different. Going to have to send it back, which is too bad considering that it looks like a nice light!
Yeah the tube treading is whack, mine all work but you have to be super careful, it’s wobbly and wants to crossthread.
Actually now that I played with it more, it’s brighter with 3 cells. 2 cells pulls ~2A, 3 cells pulls ~2.8A. With 3 cells it’s just as bright as my MTG2 C8. At this point, it’s a decent light.
Does anyone know how to pull the reflector from the pill so I can look at the emitter boards?
Its a great light, almost SRK output without as much heat problem on 3 cells. At least thats how mine came With 3x3400mAh it goes over 1.5hr runtime on high straight, without burning your hand off (with hand as heatsink in the cool night air while hiking 2-3mph, not in your bedroom…).
I wish that mine was simply poor threads, but they are incompatible threads. I had gotten out my thread combs and a file and was going to clean them up a bit when I realized that the threads on the extension tubes and tailcap were of a courser pitch than those on the body. Parts were obviously mixed up somewhere.
With 3x3400mAh it goes over 1.5hr runtime on high straight, without burning your hand off (with hand as heatsink in the cool night air while hiking 2-3mph, not in your bedroom…).