Cheers, agenthex, I never knew that. I don't recall seeing the Tank lettering on the driver of the last BC's I had through my hands. Perhaps I missed it. I've never had one myself. I only get them for others and give them a quick, check, clean and lube before passing them on.
BTW I just noticed that the Tank E07, which I thought always had an Osram emitter, shows on Tank's site as now having a Cree Q5.
I had ordered the Microtech Scarab knockoff some time ago from Manafont since they are $85+ to purchase locally. My buddy really liked it and asked me to order him the Combat Troodon, well it arrived today and man am I jealous. This is a much better knockoff than the Scarab. It came with a much better holster a better box with a real Microtech catalog and Microtech warrentee card. The blade is much sharper and has no defects and the spring action is also better right out of the box, I had to work on my action and sharpen my blade to get it as good as his also the glass breaker is much better and the screws that hold it together are allens not some specialty screw. I highly recommend this knife to anyone looking for one.
My dell eneloop pack showed up yesterday afternoon. The batteries came in a plastic bag in a cardboard box... environmentally friendly, maybe, but I miss the reusable plastic clamshells of the original eneloop packaging.
I got the Lumapower Trust 2 from KLowD9x. Swapped out the frosted "flood" lens with a clear one and works pretty good with custom polished reflector. :D Thanks!
K-608. The clip isn't exactly what I'd call great and the liner could be a bit beefier, but other than that, I'm pleasantly surprised. Looks aside (and I actually do like the way it looks), it's an interesting design and pretty neat if you have large hands like me or regularly need to use the knife while wearing gloves. I even like the compression lock, which I always felt was sort of a gimmick and which I still dislike on the K-607.
I got a SSC P7 dropin from the DX U.S. warehouse. Ordered 8-2 and received 8-6. Very nice, if only the selection and website were better. Real tracking also.
3 orders. Two from Manafont and one from Tmart. Three 14500's and two 10400's, 1 Sipik SK68 and 1 Sipik SK78. Killed the driver on the SK68 with a 14500. Took the pill out of the SK78 and put it in the SK68. I also put the 14500's away :)
I don't like these zoomies anyway...what was I thinking :) I'll use the SK78 for parts (lens) and probably give away the SK68.
I got some emitters from Shiningbeam today, they are labeled 1D on the main page but 1A when you click on them. I put together a 3.5 amp drop in with one of these new emitters today and they are the brightest emitters I have ever seen. They are a 1A tint but these are much brighter than any 1A I have seen before. I am not sure what these are but I suspect they might be U2s.
Nothing! Grrr... Over three weeks since I ordered from DX. I know I should be used it to by now but it still sucks when they say 7-10 days and it takes a month or more.
got 4 AW 16340 cells in the mail. sick and tired of spending money and TIME searching for a budget 16340 PROTECTED cell for my EX10. I wont remove protection circuits, because I know that I Will OD my cells. The trustfire flames were the best so far, but are a crazy couple mms too long to work. The spiderfire yellow '1000mA' were Even longer. And after costing up some of the other brands + risk + time, I had to get some AWs.
So far from a resting voltage of 3.99, I managed to put in another 145mA into each of the 4 cells. Will see how they go when it comes time to re-charge.