OK,
Got my Tangsfire today.
Pulls 3.52 amps on both the Trustfire Flames and on Panasonic 3400 protected’s. I do not have any IMR batteries in 18650 to try, but am confident it would pull more with them as is listed in the OP.
Anyway, fit and finish is very good, nice clean reflector, clean glass, small amount of lube on threads.
She is a keeper, very bright and has a nice defined hotspot. As with other lights with the East092 driver it comes on to high mode which suits me fine.
For the money I don’t know how you can do better. Finally a C8 that has good amperage right out of the box.
Tint is bright white but not purpley or green.
I may do a resistance mod with some braid on the driver spring and tailcap spring and remove the cap over the spring. Cap looks kinda cheesy anyway.
hmm…so i just recieved my tmart c8 today, and sadly to say, it was still beaten by my lightmalls xml2 c8
the lightmalls c8 has a bigger less defined hotspot, and has more spill/flood,
and the tmart c8 has a much nicer beam and tighter hotspot.
the lightmalls seems brighter and seems to throw further, but only judging by eye.
im using 20 R’s.
Same here. Got both of mine yesterday and neither perform very well. They don’t suck, but they are not much brighter than my standard C8s out there from any vendor. Granted, they are well built and very nice, with a defined hotspot, but they are blue as heck (no more U3s for me) and just not very impressive. I tested mine on unprotected 3400 Panas from FT. Didn’t spend long playing around, but I’ll do more some time tomorrow when I get back home.