Nitecore EA45S Review. Lots of Pics.

why are the pictures distorted? The movie too.

Itā€™s happening to a few pics on my end as well. I was kind of hoping I was just tired and seeing thingsā€¦ Having a bit of a rough transition to the new forum setup. Some things donā€™t seem to be working how I used to do them.

Edit: How about now? I went in and edited the code for each and every pictureā€¦ it was adding some additional unwanted code automagically for some reason. It all looks normal on mobile and desktop for me now. (I took the first picture at an odd angle to try and add a little something. Makes it look really tall and obelisk-likeā€¦ I might just replace it.)

Edit 2: Iā€™m not seeing any distortion in the video on mobile (safari) or desktop (chrome/firefox). Could you maybe screenshot it?

Well Iā€™m exhausted. Bunch more to add later. Beamshots were a no-go tonight, deplorable conditions.

Please give me a heads up if something isnā€™t showing up correctly for you. I had to do quite a bit differently this time around so I probably made some errors. :stuck_out_tongue:

Btw the price from the vendor is pretty fantasticā€¦ Iā€™m waiting on a response as to whether or not MAP is an issue before I post any of those details.

Beautiful video!!! Mhalen would have been proud of that one.

Mhanlen is the king of high quality flashlight videos. I just do what I can with my outdated and slowly dying, entry level DSLR, but thanks. :slight_smile:

Nice review. Please PM vendor details if not posted online. Thanks. :smiley:

Thank you very much

Itā€™s on the to- done list :slight_smile: . Iā€™m charging cells now; Iā€™m hoping to get beamshots tonight.

From what Iā€™ve read other users have measured something like 550 days for the parasitic drain to drop a cell to 50%.

Edit: Iā€™m measuring .08mA parasitic drain. So about 1276 day to dead, or 638 days to 50% on an Eneloop Pro 2450mAh cell. :slight_smile:
Heading outside for beamshots.

looks good now :smiley:

Fantastic. :slight_smile:

Thank for the nice review and absolutely nice pictures :slight_smile:

I have this light from 3 month, is a great light, good throw for the size, like a lot the slim factor for a 4xAA power bank.

I have only few complains (the perfect light does not exist yet :laughing: )

- the grip is not so great even with hard anodizing (with the dry hands I ā€œsucceedā€ to drop form ~1 meter on a wood surface, but all ok)

- the led is not 100% perfect centered (but I didnā€™t see any bad effects)

  • the ATR system enter to fast on turbo mode (just a little warm and immediately steps down :frowning: )

But like I said, overall is a great light, I love it :slight_smile:
Bellow few pics with mine

Great review!!! Iā€™ve had one of these for a while now and it has become one of my favorite, most used lights. Pair it up with some Eneloops and it is just about the perfect package as far as I am concerned.
I think Nitecore hit a ā€˜Home Runā€™ with this one.

Re. ā€œPress and hold both switches for more than 1 second to lockout the flashlight. Press and hold both switches for more than 1 second to disengage the lockout.ā€, does that mean that there is no parasitic drain when it is locked out, since this is not a ā€œmechanicalā€ lockout?

Hi,

I noticed that Kaidomain still lists the SD10 as ā€œin-stockā€:

http://www.kaidomain.com/p/S022428.Lumintop-SD10-Cree-XM-L2-T6-4-Mode-800-Lumens-Flashlight

Does anyone know if they actually still have these in stock and ready to ship?

I thought that the SD10 had been discontinued?

There is parasitic drain; the light is continuously monitoring to be unlocked while it is in lock mode.

Funny yā€™all should bring up ā€œparasitic drain during lockoutā€ concerning this light. I got curious about that too after reading about that little Nitecore key chain light thing.
I just started testing one of my EA45Sā€™s back on 19 September 2016.
Here are the results so far.

  • Light Nitecore / EA45S
  • Batteries / Eneloop ā€˜PRO XXā€™ AA _ (HR-3UWX min 2400mAh / 11-05-EE) _ Batteries fully charged, rested over 24 hrs. then installed.

Dateā€¦9-19-2016ā€¦ā€¦10-3-2016
Timeā€¦08:00ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦16:10

  1. ā€¦ 1.387vā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦1.326v
  2. ā€¦ 1.388vā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦1.328v
  3. ā€¦ 1.391vā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦1.326v
  4. ā€¦ 1.391vā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦1.327v

My Eneloops are flat, light doesnā€™t turn on after a few days without using AT ALL! I have tried many sets of fully charged batteries, all dead within few days.
Is my light faulty?

Hmmm, how many days is ā€œa fewā€? Something doesnā€™t sound exactly right with it for sure.
The post above yours is what mine measure after two weeks. I am gonna update that post every two weeks or so and see what happens.

Even for Nitecore parasitic drain, that sounds excessive. One tip to pass on: On many Nitecore lights, Once you put the cells in, turn it on for a second or two before putting it in lockout. Seems to cut down the drain considerably.

That certainly sounds bad. Iā€™ve heard of high parasitic drain with other models, but not the EA45S.

I rechecked mine with my new UT139C DMM, Iā€™m seeing 96 microamps which is a little over a 1000 days to dead cells.