Sharp idea that one. It might work, but I aint gonna find out. Im off to town to get myself some smaller circlip pliers… and a coffee.
Edit:I ended up getting it out with a fine(ish) point head punch. They are hard to realign without cross threading. Mine is a really dark blue, not green, so what did I get?
Edit 2: I like this new monitor. Im going to photograph everything i need to inspect now, just loaded up a pic of the driver, and clear as a bell, East 092.
Well I think with the send date and your address they can probably check which warehouse it came from and maybe know by that which ones were the crappy ones I’m guessing?
Tmart will cover the problem with new lights or money back, depending on what you want. Just PM me with the info I requested and I will have Tmart contact you.
I still didn’t receive mine but it’s the same case as with Streamer, ordered on 3/22/14, backordered until 3/27/14, shipped 3/28/14.
I expect it somewhere between next tuesday and friday…
Me too. I ordered six of those “bad drivers” and it ain’t really that bad. You can also mod it to give you higher current. Discussions of this bad driver can be seen here: Direct drive 17mm driver from Fasttech
Oopsie - though the packaging was herrendous on mine, no damage other than normal HD2010 (qualty issues), and the torn lanyard I don't care about - I usually toss them anyway. The weird white dust cleans up easily also. I'm lucky no major nicks or broken lens - guess when the package gets all tossed around, it landed on other soft packages . Mine came with the East-092 labeled driver, but it will be tossed eventually anyway - hate stock 5 mode drivers.
Sony 26650 2600mAh, the green 50A one @ 4,17V - 5,4A (not recommended current on aluminium star, I just did a quick test)
Considering that driver spring is not copper braided and emitter wires are thin, those are nice numbers. Output numbers should be better than an XM-L east092 light. On top of that. The SOS actually says SOS (unlike the east092). Strobe isn't insanely fast (like east092). And mine has a fairly quick off time memory (about 2 seconds, if not less) which is nice. (East 092 starts at full every time, but have a fairly slow memory reset, which can be annoying). Did I say it had an XM-L2??
All in all, better emitter and better driver in several ways IMO.
Ill still mod it and probably change the driver like this in order to get a better UI, low voltage cut off etc. If so, ill probably use this driver for something else..
Like mentioned by others, pill is slightly different compared to a "regular" HD2010.
My only minor complaint would be that there was no o-ring on the pill, and the pill was a little loose. Locating/centering ring might benefit from beeing shortened a little bit... I prefer to have Omten named switch...
Did a quick spring and wire upgrade on the driver and was seeing 6A at the tail... Its pretty much the same as east092 with the proper mods and battery. 6A was with alu mcpcb.. Glad I didnt fry the emitter on my super quick test..
Enough talk, just wanted to say thanks to Old-Lumens for arranging the GB, and to T-Mart for giving me a light that is IMO better value than what I paid for. Thanks for giving me the "bad" XM-L2 version that I got. :p Its great! :D
You lucky bum, you got the good aspects of everything, thats not the “bad” version of anything! By Chinese lottery you could have ended up with the one I got: 2.28A max regular XML with a black scratch of something into the dome, and PWM whines on high (and all) modes I think you are in the lucky minority.