This Meteor utilizes a complicated boost circuitry with an MCU not easily re-flashed. Tinker with it? Good way to go BOOM!
Seems to me this is one of the best lights to leave alone. And I aim to do just that. Well I do aim to try to leave it alone. For a while. Probably. If I can. We’ll see. 
well, allow me to rephrase that. Didn’t mean tinker, as in modifying it, meant tinker as in playing with that UI! I love modes, bells, whistles, etc. This could keep me busy for quite some time it appears! Appreciate the red flag however.
I have to admit, not being a fan of blinky modes I was thinking all the options there were just a waste of time…. wrong! It’s pretty neat! The button can be used to blink, several varieties of blink/beacon/strobe in the emitters, and the ability to set the blink from the current power level is just too cool! Like, if you’re in moon mode, you can start an SOS at the same level! I’ve never seen blinkies do anything but 100%, so that’s pretty awesome.
The RGB button is pure genious! I’ve had a couple that light up green when charged and go red when low, but the variety here is so cool! So yeah, I really do appreciate all the effort that has gone into this one, even if it’s a bit daunting in it’s complexity.
I’ll figure it out. Resistant to change, it runs in the family. 
if then hold button - the flashlight goes into turbo strobe
you can use three ordinary battery and one high current HE2/HE4
No wonder Booom is mentioned…
As far as I understood from the discussion at fonarevka the microcontroller monitors all of this and will not let them explode. But of course it is better to four identical
Mixing cells with different capacities/chemistries/IR is a really bad idea. And seeing as the cells are in parallel there is no way for the light to monitor the health of each cell individually.
This is a very high power light, if you can’t feed it 4 matched high power cells to take advantage of it fully maybe hold off buying it until you can.
… what?
It’s not a good idea to connect mismatched cells in parallel. The MCU doesn’t even matter; the cells will equalize each other simply by being connected, and if they’re mismatched the equalizing process can cause fires or explosions. I’ve actually made fire this way, when I accidentally connected a couple mismatched cells in a config similar to what the Meteor uses. It took only a fraction of a second.
Get one set of four identical cells, and make sure they always stay together and get charged together as if they were one.
+1,000,000,000,000,000,000......
@ keen George: can you say that again, but then in words? My brain can't come past the second 0 from the back.
Do all those zero’s symbolize emphatic agreement?
Can I May I please have a dollar for every one of those please? :bigsmile:
I think he mistook the ability to run on, say, only 2 cells (which it CAN do) as something else.
+1 Quintillion 
Nah, my keyboard got stuck.
And yes Dale, you Can have a dollar for each zero if you so desire.
I think you are probably right, BUT what a Dangerous mistake....
No kidding, it’d be an expensive lesson turning a Meteor into a meteor.
I’ll refrain from speculation about the cause of your sticky keyboard. :bigsmile:
subscribed/ ordering when i get off work
Ok, just got it today. Wow, it’s small and heavy (relatively speaking)… And by the way thanks for linking the English manual some pages back because, out of the box I wasn’t sure how it operated.
So once I read the flow chart I figured it out… but don’t expect to get it without reading it… because you won’t. I like to think of it as a short cut based UI. I don’t necessarily love it, because you need to remember what 1 press, 2 presses, 3 presses do… but it isn’t difficult. UI 3, I don’t even think I’ll bother with, and so far UI 2 seems the one that suits me the best. Personally I’d like it if it was a press on and press off… with pressing and holding from on to get to the mode you want.
Unlike Dale, I probably won’t post anything until I’m finished with the review… but I plan on getting it in the mail in less than a week and a half… and getting my review up a few days after. It’s much brighter even in the daylight than my new Imalent DDT40… but I won’t know how much until I see it in the dark. The light is extremely well built… The fit and finish is pretty flawless too.
I hurried my look at it because I have one of my own coming and there were others wanting to get their hand on it. No real reason for me to do an in-depth review with extensive pics and video on the same light several others will also be looking at.
So I’ll give a better look with my own in XP-G2 S4 2B trim. 
And maybe then in XP-L V6 3D. And maybe then in Nichia 219C.
My review will probably be a bit briefer than I normally do, because of this. Can’t say I’ll drop the money on this one, unless I can get it for a decent price. That said, it’s tinier than any 4x 18650 light I own, and it’s also way brighter. By the way, what version of the light is this? Anyone know? Anyone know the specific optic used in it? I want to make sure my review is accurate.