Is MecArmy a Cooyoo rebranded or is CooyArmy a MecYoo ? :SICK:
Different name due to MAP? Cooyoo-Blackwater-MecArmy triangle.
Interesting, nice find X3
Same exact light, even the same cell it’s shipped with. I didn’t know they were affiliated, learn something new every day! lol
Edit: TexasShooter, been looking at that. I think it has room and feel pretty sure that a Purple IMR18350 would deliver more current. Have to look at the tube now and see if I can keep the on-board charging system or if it needs to go.
CooYoo is their Asian logo and MecArmy is their North American/European market logo. Just changing the filters”location” changes the products names. It’s mentioned on CPF a little while ago.
Removed the charger, bored the tube, made an insulated spacer with Delrin and brass. Purple Efest IMR18350 does a rested 6.01A and 1907.85 out the front… cell measured 4.15V so I’ll charge it up and see where max peaks. 
Last night I measured 8.39 lumens at the bottom end. So there’s 64 stop points between 8 and 1900 lumens. How sweet is that? 
Edit: Fresh off the charger, the little Purple Efest 18350 makes 2187.3 lumens on top, 8.59 lumens on bottom. I can live with that.
OMG :heart_eyes: Nearly 2000 lumens OTF ?!
Actually, 2187 out the front on a fresh cell. It’s no longer regulated so output will drop with the cell’s discharge.
I have a little battery back-up pack from GearBest called a Mi (Xiomi) that has 3 18650’s from Samsung or Panasonic, all Texas Instruments components… nice little phone charger or back-up. I used the charger out of the PT-16 with this pack and charged a Windyfire 14500 to exactly 4.20V just a few minutes ago. I’ll carry this with the pack as a very small and accurate battery charger, with green/red indicator lights. As an added benefit, the Mi turns off when the cell is charged, so it is pretty safe as well in this combination. (I removed the springs and soldered wire leads with magnets on the ends, makes it easy to charge a cell off this pack)
Awesome numbers Dale, did you have to bypass both positive end springs?
It no longer has springs, of any kind. Originally it had a spring between the charger and positive end of cell, another on the opposite side of the charger to contact the driver positive contact, which is a thin brass disc.
Now I have the cell fitted between a brass spacer that is adjusted with the threaded white plastic cover that once allowed the red/green charge indicator lights to show.
Very cool! Do you have an endless source of quad pcbs? I can’t find them anywhere, except austrailia, shipping is terrible.
This.
Got more direct copper quad MPCBs? I need some!!!
Awesome mod Dale.
Next step: Open up the battery tube enough to fit an 18500.
- remove the copper spacer from the battery tube.
- bend a strip of copper into a ring and insert it into the head as a stop to prevent the head from screwing in all the way.
- do the same if necessary at the tail.
I looked at an 18500, much too long. Besides, where is there an 18500 that supplies the kind of power the Efest Purple IMR18350 will give?
I bought a few quad boards for a project that didn’t pan out, so …
Dale, just checking, did you do runtime with the 16340 and 18350? I’m just thinking since it comes with that awesome small form factor, might be good to keep to that form but with your awesome 1493 OTF lums to wow friends instead of ramping up to almost 18650 form, where most torches congregate.
That said, duration might be a whole PITA experience.
The light is making 2187 lumens from an 18350. It looks just like it did before. (Well, it’s a quad now instead of a triple) I have the charger working outside of the light, seems to be a nice little charger in it’s own right.
Haven’t done any kind of run-time tests, just got it done this morning and then my SP-03 came in and I spent the day building it with MTN’s SRK driver and a massive tellurium copper pill I made for it (all today, just got done)
Two fairly tough builds, one long day, I’m exhausted! lol
Update:
I now have the 10440 and 14500 variants of this light as well. With the 16340 being heavily modified I’m leaving the other 2 stock. Swapping in a better cell makes for a nice improvement and the built in charger still makes it a very nice EDC style light that can be recharged almost anywhere with the battery bank for back-up.
The 10440 is a bit on the odd side with it’s VERY narrow tube, the 14500 is sweet, a nice balance.
The 16340 is still amazing in it’s form factor, short squatty potent little light that easily fits in a watch pocket. Crazy small. These would make nice gifts to a flashlight noob, with the USB charger built in no extra bits and pieces required. They even come with a decent cell already inside, simply remove a plastic disc that is blocking current and you’re up and running.
The only thing to watch for is that you’re getting the new UI as compared to the original one. If I’d gotten the new UI in the 16, I probably wouldn’t have modded it at all. 
Where’d you purchase your 14500 version from so that I’ll know I’m getting the newest UI?
I got it on Massdrop. Just pay attention to what they say the UI does, it should start on Moon with the first click to wake it up, a double click from off is instant Turbo (I’m blind now, had to actually do it to make sure I was remembering right)
Dale, did you ever figure out if the newer retaining ring without notches is threaded or not? Thinking about tearing into mine soon but want to get the switch cover off so I can put it in the vise to crack loose the bezel.
Yes, it’s threaded. I have one right here that I coincidentally just put on the charger… easily removed the threaded switch retaining ring with my fingernails.