Manker Quinlan-T01

There are a few of us that will be getting these for review.

I dont find the design ugly, but it’s always personal taste. I’m impressed by the numbers, but the price is too high.

I do agree with you.
At first I thought it is a titanium light.
If I were to buy an AA light with a budget of $60-70, I’ll take the tried and tested ZL anytime over this.
$40 is a more appropriate.

If it was not quite so pricey, I might consider it. But a very good S2+ or EE X6 with more runtime is quite a bit cheaper.

Welcome to BLF, write2dgray!

Like that titanium Manker, they use way to much material to my taste, making the light bulky. I guess I'm more an Eagletac type of person. I do like the reflector size though, there's not much in the AA-'thrower' category.

I'll wait for the BLF-K6 :-)

Looks like a nice zebralight clone. I’d be interested for $30.

£42.95 (~$65) from ebay.co.uk.

Well, after seeing this review and watching the video, I take back what I said about it being ugly. It’s still not my favorite design, but it’s not bad really, and it has a nice tight beam!

I got a similar experience: from the video it seems not that bulky and the reflector looks of really nice size! (K6 worthy)

The reflector looks amazing. I don’t really care much for AA lights but the fact that it’ll take a 14500 makes me want one. The deep carry pocket clip is the main selling point for me, I like to carry my lights, not just leave them sitting on a shelf. The size of the head reminds me of the Nitecore MH20 but it’s still pocketable.

very sexy looking light, but too expensive.

Thanks djozz, I’ve lurked for years :). I agree, too much meat on the Manker lights. I like ’em simple - lean and simple with nice knurling.

And thanks for the link to review, it popped up shortly after I started this thread earlier today.

And too funny that mere hours after I started this thread, a true shill started a thread on CPF about the same light. It went south quickly:

Seems a bit big for a 14500 light.

The head is almost 30mm wide. That’s about the same as a Zebralight SC600. I think that might be too wide for pocket EDC.

On the other hand it does look like it has pretty good throw for a 14500 light. It must be making good use of all that interior space for a large reflector.

Of course M4D M4X, you know we need a GB on this….Just Sayn’

Don’t bet on it.
There was a proposed group buy for Manker Timeback titanium recently that was torpedoed by Manker.
GB also first advertised the light at discount, and had to raise the price to RRP after warning by Manker.

i am quite sure we will find a way :wink:

This should be the maximun price after the BLF A6 disaster and Manker Timeback group buy boicot

Lower price would be nice, but A6 disaster? Imo it wasn’t, too strong of a word.

May be, my English (google translator) is very bad. But there was many failures.

I am trying today with NiMH…T01 is really incredible