Noctigon Meteor M43 TO BUY OR NOT TO BUY - OVERALL OPINION

LED Flashlights – General Info 18650 Flashlights
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I bought mine from RMM. I ordered it on Friday, it was on my door step when I got home. The batteries are charging right now, just waiting to melt the darkness away. Again I literally just dropped $200 on a light. Up until this point $60 was the most I had spent.

I got NW S3 3D————————————7010lm——————-32,000cd—————————-4885K in sandstone. It’s almost like a subtle gold honestly.

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Let me know how you like it. I really would like your opinion on the tint.

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Will do!

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mine’s been great.

some random thoughts.

pro’s:

  • real, real bright
  • real small
  • low mod quite low enough
  • good choices between turbo and lowlow (prefer UI 2)
  • LED button colors and blinkies are fun
  • build quality fantastic, should be a light for life

cons:

  • small
  • gets hot fast on turbo, and the 50 degree thermal stepdown is a bit high as the light can become hard to hold, yet it’s still not stepped the power output down. and turbo is so addicting that you really want to use turbo like it’s medium or something. but then you can’t hold the damn thing.
  • once the light gets hot, it’s hard to cool it off while still using… most every output still at least maintains the temperature of already-to-hot-to-hold.
  • springs in the tailcap smash down pretty quickly, and then the smallest taps or bounces will cause the light to change modes or turn off altogether
  • runtime is still rather low even with 4 batteries, as the light eats a bunch of amps in most modes. you end up with a pocket full of batteries “in case” (but i do tend to run turbo or high a lot)
  • changing through the different modes can be inconvenient depending on which mode you are in and which mode you are after
  • all the clicking to get certain features turned on or off is a bit ridiculous. so the 5th click and hold is for turbo strobe, but what was 4th click no hold? and what is 4th click and hold? this goes on all way up into the teens, and hell if i remember half of them… ends up i cannot turn the LED button off, or turn the blinking on or off… almost need a cheat sheet in the tailcap for the 4 functions you do want
  • it … doesn’t turn on or off instantly. i recognize that’s a fairly small complaint, but when you blow 8000 lumens in someone’s face by accident, you’d prefer to turn that off in a not-ramping fashion. (i thought it something else in the ocean; i didnt’ realize it was some drunk guy who wasn’t particularly thrilled to have ~7 car headlights in his face at maybe 5 meters. who gets in the ocean at night anyway??)
  • this is true on the way up too; i want turbo nao… i know it’s only a milisecond, and it seems cute when switching between modes, the ramping. but on the on/off i would prefer the instant on/off

11/10 would buy again

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You bought one? All you had to do was wait for someone here to gift one to you as you had requested. Shoulda waited…

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Technically the video (via Google) I made for it, paid for it. It took this long though. Anyway, I wasn’t holding my breath.

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Reallly! how many views does it take to buy an m43??

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I’m just roughly guessing, maybe 40k-60k? It’s my most popular video by far, and responsible for just over 1/5 of my total channel views. Google “flashlight review,” and see what the top hit under “video.”

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So your you tube channel paid for it? Cool!

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Yep! Let’s try and forget how much more I have invested in camera equipment though. Because if you look at it that way, I am really in the hole.

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The one you reviewed was the CW XP-G2 S4 2B, correct?

That was a great video! I laughed, I cried, I bought a flashlight :bigsmile:

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Mine was the dedomed version of the xpg2s. I don’t think they offer that version any more. The S3 3D DD.

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What exactly do you mean by tailcap springs smash down pretty quickly???

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wehre are you?

:smiley:

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At the rate I gather subscribers I’ll be there in approx. 358 years.

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I’ll have to test mine when I get home, I leave batteries in mine all the time and haven’t had that issue yet but I also don’t really bump it around much.

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ok so likely i mooshed them myself; i was like “they say extra long, protected cells don’t fit but let me try anyway…” smash.
so obviously don’t do that
but there’s a thread going elsewhere about the light in general, and a few others have brought up the smashed spring problem (and i assume they weren’t as dense as me as to attempt to use protected cells in a light that specfically says not to).

there’s even an image, in post #1190ish of this thread.

here’s some of the goings on:

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That’s not entirely accurate. The version I reviewed way back when DID accept protected cells. At least Sanyo 2600 mah ones. My new one yesterday no longer works with protected cells. So there must have been some minor revisions along the way, or some difference in the light I originally tested, to the current or all production models.

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mhanlen, could you post an image about your light? Would be interested to see that colour in real life photos, I mean the flashlight body. And also, any thoughts about the 3d tint? That is what I prefer and planning to buy but it’s not easy to decide even if I prefer warmer colours.

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+1 I would really like your opinion on the tint.