Looks like it's inspired by the Maratac AA. Very, very, very attractive, simple design with a clip. Sweet red O-rings. XP-G R5 emitter [edit: some sharp eyes on this forum have spotted that it appears to be an XP-E. Shame on DX...yet again], probably a real scorcher. Never heard of the Eastward brand. But of course there has to be a downside... It only has High, Mid, and Strobe modes, which means that it's probably similar to the Trustfire R5-A3, which has an atrociously short runtime on medium. Come on DX, give us this light with a 5-lumen low mode and you'll have a winner.
EastwardYJ has a rather good reputation I'd say. Their 18650 lights are usually very solidly made, hard-driven and very well heatsinked. The only downside I'm aware of is that they often glue the head/body threads. But at least on the two lights I got of them the glue was crackable without any heat/chemistry.
Well, I couldn't resist. I pulled the trigger on this one. This is a drop-dead beautiful design, and at least I'm sure it'll be bright. Expect a review about 5 weeks from today if/when it finally finishes its long journey from China to South America.
Well, from what I have learned here, Don has said that a light designed to work only with 1.5V current is more efficient and will be brighter with alkalines and NiMHs compared to a light running 1.5V that can optionally handle >3V. This is an advantage for me, since I don't use 14500s.
I don't know, the only other XP-G R5 light I currently own is the Trustfire R5-A3, and on 1.2V NiMH it really is insanely bright. Could very well be 200+ lumens.
Mine got 115 at switch on with NiMH, 292 with 14500. The NiMH test might be on the low side and will be redone to get the 30 sec and 2 minute measurements.
If you own the Trustfire R5-A3 and you truly want "insanely bright", you need to try it on 14500's. To my eyes and others, it becomes about twice as bright.
I have brighter - it's close to 3x as bright at switch-on - if I were prepared to push the voltage higher it would just about touch 300 lumens at switch on - it gets 117 or a bit more with an NiMH.
Mine has only had an NiMH in it for testing. It is indeed a real screamer on 14500 and doesn't set fire to your hands like the C3 stainless steel.
After grabbing the image and doing a brutal unsharp mask in Photoshop, it is possible that it is an XP-G - the image is too murky to be certain but there appear to be 4 segments.
There is not really enough data in the image to be certain.
As fran82 said, if there are three dots visible around the die the emitter isn't an XP-G and it wouldn't be the first time DX failed to list correct specs...
Whoa, nice catch Fran82! Well, there goes a lot of the appeal of this light. Shame on DX and Eastward YJ for their deceptive advertising. I updated my first post.