I took an 18ga automotive wire, tinned about 3/4-1” of one end, folded it over to make it double thick re-tinned together (this is the end I slip down into the multimeter plugs) other end I put banana clips, leads are about 12-14” long, those will give you MUCH better readings for sure
I bought a budget DMM and the stock leads could never measure things correctly. I soldered 22awg wires on banana plugs and using this I can measure up to 5.8A, maybe higher but don’t have light driven >6A yet. Perhaps I will upgrade it into 18awg next time.
Oh ya, I completely abandoned the stock flukes, everytime I just put my 22awg “leads” directly on the measuring points and that’s it.
I’ve seen quite a few people come to this same realization.
Just grab some 10-14 guage wire, pair of banana plugs, and make some leads. I think I spent like $5 on mine and $20 for a DMM and I get very accurate measurements. 2.6A was as close as I could get with the stock leads measuring a 2.8 driver.
I believe that is not a correct statement. Any enthusiast person with the basic knowledge in electronics know Ohm's law and can expect that long and thin leads not to display the correct current on low voltages.
You have to understand that flashlights have many weak point, springs, wires, switches, etc which all add resistance on a low voltage power source (4.15V).
Now, try to measure 3A on 110V power supply, you wont say that a meter rated at 10A is not able to measure 3A with the included equipment. So and establish brand is able to measure what it says, but not in any condition.
14 AWG silicone multi-strand wire works great for me. Very flexible, about 12" or so. I simply solder the ends I use to measure. The other ends are heavily soldered into banana plugs. Once in a while clean-up or re-solder the working ends.
Today i received my convoy c8 xm-l2 u2 1A from banggood. Just one word… wow! With protected cells (both trustfire and panasonic) is brigther than my lightmalls ultrafire c8 xm-l2. Wider hotspot due to the op reflector but also overall more lumes. I think the lightmalls c8 draws no more than 2.5A… bad driver or just bad batch. Much better value than any ultrafire c8 around.
Yes a little . I have a Tenergy in it now and it works fine . I put a 3100 Keeppower and its a tight fit width but length is ok . I would like a little more room.
If for no better reason than USA seller and faster shipping I'm waiting on the xpg2 to be back in stock, unless I break down and buy the xml2 U2 1a too to have it sooner. Pretty curious what the difference is between 3*7135 and 8*7135 (380mA drivers) means in real world application with everything else being equal.