Don’t think he sells them anymore, kind of a pity. It was a good quality host. Got 1 of the hosts running an DD MTG-2. Was quite happy with the outcome.
Looks the same yes @ less than Simon had the host for. Think the host was just over $18. I’ll have to check mine, but I can remember the lens was quite hazy, as shown in the above link. Got it cleaned eventually. An AR lens would be great, but to find budget ones (around $3 a piece) in this size is a bit of a pain. Thanks for the link.
Thanks MRsDNF. I almost can’t believe it. I might have missed this, but I doubt if mine has an AR lens… I’ll look closely later today at mine. Where did you buy yours?
Hi Werner. I’d try to stick with OP reflectors for XHP. I hate any form of that dark center spot and its really a pain with SMO reflectors. I believe this reflector is too small for a proper XHP-50 ‘Thrower’.
Does anyone maybe have proper modded lux figures for XM-L2 in this light? Would be interesting to see how this compares to the Maxtoch’s (M24 & 2X). The reflector is quite a bit smaller.
Mine came from the link above. I bought three as they were very cheap. I've had a few looks at the lens to double check if it is AR and it definitely has a very slight blue reflective tinge to it.
Edit. The Banggood link. Don't you love that name.
Edit two. I've just stuck a couple of protected batteries in this light and the tailcap will not screw on fully. Even with the brass pill on the spring removed it still does not do all the way up. There is about 4mm gap before the tailcap will screw all the way on with 70mm long batteries installed. It has mode memory and the reflector has a slight haze to it. Tailcap current draw on high is around 1 amp on high, .5 amp med and .12 amp on low.
True, and that was my first concern when I bought first NCR18650B protected cell (that was loooooong time ago), surprisingly I never had problems fitting then in any of my flashlights, they even fit my Nitecore MH20 and I was ready to bet they will not fit, good thing I don’t bet
just a side note, this little puppies are great but they don’t work so good with “smart” usb power banks like Xiaomi pb, actually when they are set to about 40% of intensity or below they don’t work at all. Smart power banks monitor current consumption and when this consumptions is low(er!) they presume that consumer device is fully charged and they cut off the power (shut down).
I bought Xiaomi 10400mAh power bank to use with this USB light but if I set the light to minimum intensity, which is still quite enough to light up the tent just enough but because consumption is so low that pb just shuts off and then you have to unplug and plug again USB light to get it working again and you have to crank up the output, somewhere to 50% and that is to much for my intended usage
Here is my review of Mini
I agree generally. Better to use ‘stupid’ power banks with these lights, such as this one:
You don’t need to unplug then plug again to the Xiaomi powerbank by the way—just press the Power button.
Just keeping in mind this downside of Xiaomi power banks. Because of this, some smart phones do not charge well, too: charging process shuts off after several seconds—right at the very beginning.