Just pop the head off the battery tube, and look at it from the spring side, if its dark blue, its likely the EAST092 driver. My no name was, and it works fine, seems to have good throw. Not that I have another HD2010 to compare it too.
And I just held the pill in my hand, and used a pointy punch to spin the retaining ring out.
Dumb question but should the no-name 2010 have a Centering ring over the LED?
Just took my 2010 apart after re-watching the modding video,because beam is way weaker and fuzzier than my Ultrafire HD2010 maybe half as bright and not in focus.
I notice that the dome on the LED has on one side a rough/scuffed/haze on the surface. Is that just the luck of the draw or could it be from not having a centering ring around the LED?
There is adhesive under the star, but because they forgot the centering ring, the star didn’t get pressed down against the pill by the reflector so the adhesive is a thick blob that probably isn’t transferring the heat very well.
Got mine today… no name in grey color… bad driver but good XM-L2, can’t win them all I guess.
now… how are we going to get the good driver? sending the whole light back to china is out of the question
Led is XM-L2, driver is not East092 (look on photo). Oring on head was broken, I think some one put too small oring on big head, unfortunately too big…
Pill has a very short thread, about half of normal pill from Old Lumens video.
Current in high mode is about 2,5A with fresh samsung cell.
Hi OL. Got a question on Tangsfire HD2010.
Turns out, I had to remove the pills o-ring to get the reflector to seat properly. With the o-ring installed, it jams the reflector base into the star/solder connections when I screw the bezel back on. Works fine without the pill o-ring save for losing waterproofness.
I’m assuming this is what caused my short from the getgo. It melted/deformed the centering spacer slightly as a result.
Have you seen this on any of the HD2010’s you have handled? TIA….David