Mine arrived today. :bigsmile:
Glad that I ordered a lens the stock one is foggy…
If it’s not too late, put me down for 1 “B” and 1 extra AR lens. Whom do I pay and what is their PAYPAL address? Thank you.
I just was outside and shined along my way and I like this light a lot. Thanks for the Group buy. The lens is really nice, thanks ric for comin up with that. I would order another lens just for spare if someone could tell me how to select tracked shipping in the shop…
Just for reference I also can influence the output by the used batteries. I tested Ncrb, 26650, lg 4.35V cells and each gave 5% more output.
So the regulating seems to be a bit voltage depending. A quick measurement gave around 800lm and 48kcd so that seems in the range others have mentioned.
The driver is really smart, works with one to 3 batteries and has undervoltage protection for each amount of cells. I am impressed.
Have I understand it correct that a resistor mod don’t works for one cell use?
And another question: what is that?
Or better why was this in my envelope? Have I missed something.
It appears you have a bonus werner.
With my very limited testing you may well get a slightly higher output on on battery using the higher voltage cell.
Tons of tiny scratches on mine :-/ Got it today. Package looked fine, so I assume scratched before transportation.
It looks like you need to get out the white king and turn your light naked. I had the same mark on one tailcap but thats all I could see without putting them under the microscope. Mine are definitely not as bright as my HD2010 running at 5 amps. I have a large star coming for the MTG-2 so will wait for it to come in before I mod it. Now to go and find Tom E thread on how to strip these.
white king? What is that? I never de-anodized a light or any outside parts before.
I could not find greased lightning here in Australia so went looking for an alternative. White King had the same active ingredient. Its a clothes bleach. I dont know how it compares to anything else but has worked on everything I've used it on for de-anodising.
On a separate note did the driver pull out straight past the switch boot? Mine seems to be stuck there for some reason and dont want to break anything which l am quite adept at.
I have the same idea, got a noctigon with mt-g2, then off to CK to put in his new driver.
Which driver?
I was reading a thread the other day where the driver had the tabs like the standard one or maybe that was the standard board with this piggybacked on?
Do you have a link to the thread perhaps?
Got the R090s today from mouser. The light is pretty sick dedomed. I can only run it one cell right now cause it trips the protection on the batteries with 2 or 3 cells
I might take off the protection just to see what it can do on 3 cells. But from what I seen one cell is pretty damn good. Have the sense at .045 wight (you smart bastard heheh)
I had the other light come in from gearbest too the other day. I just took parts off both to make a perfect yezl. I noticed the one from gearbest had a cheaper eswitch on it that stuck out. Not like the one from cnqualitygoods which is flush with the light and looks slick.
Anyways good deal. I’ll have a mt-g2 in the other one when that led comes in from rmms shop. I have a copper noctigon coming too but I’m not sure if I even need it. It seems to be getting good sink action from the reflector and pill as it is. I de-domed the other one for practice too. It’s actually really easy using the lights own heat, peel it off one side at a time…
Thanks for the help though, I couldn’t have done it without you guys. Really happy with just one cell, seems out of control bright with 3 but cuts out in a second or so. I’m not sure why it cuts out on 2 and 3 cells but not one. Let me do a reading on the cap.
Edit
Read 3.2a tail with 2 cells bypassed… I guess gonna have to get some good cells and then I can be like that kid in the ad to the left
This is not the one I was thinking of. I'm not sure where to look for the other. Maybe its in this thread somewhere.
Hhmm - I don't recall having any problems with that. Dunno, really wondering if the earlier ones I bought from WallBuys were a better quality batch, and better quality in the assembling. They seemed to perform better, no nicks/scratch's to speak of, etc. I'm sure though the recent one I did from RIC was fine - don't recall any probs pulling it out and resistor modding it.
Ohhh - I got a bunch of the super copper stars (MaxToch) on order from BangGood. Both the XML and MT-G2 26 mm's sound perfect for this light!!
I did not order a bunch but did order a couple due to budget constraints. 
I'm a suka for qty discounts 
, plus the BLF discount still applies with the qty discount, unlike FastTech.