First off I would like to give a big thanks to Chris01942 on here for doing some talking for me about my weaker second Keygos KE-5 that I received from a guy off of Ebay. Chris was kind enough to talk to Miss Erica at Keygos about the weaker KE-5 that I talked about vs my first one that is a lot brighter. Well anyway to make a long story short, Chris sent me a pm and told me that Keygos probably would replace my weaker made Keygos if I forwarded the pm he sent me to Miss Erica and mention all of what he told me. Well I did and she got back with me last nite and told me that they have to use different suppliers basically at times to keep up with production and that is why I noticed a difference in brightness between the two. She said she was going to send me a brand new Keygo KE-5 as replacement. I thought that was very nice of her.
At 2a it's still a great thrower but what concerns me is that the emitter is held in place by the white grease- no fasteners whatsoever. I can actually move it very easy
My second one is not even in the same ball park as my first. My first one on high I would bet money is around 200 lumens brighter than my second. On low it's probably as bright as my second one on medium.
I couldn't tell you for it won't cycle through the modes. It stays on high. I even tried putting the tailcap back on and went to medium mode and then turned if off since the light has memory. But once I do that and retest at tailcap it apparently goes back to the high mode and around 3.80 amps.
So I guess it's the luck of the draw on which one we'll get when we order one. That's a shame I got one on order now, I hope it's as good as everyone says. I just got the Keygos KE-2 and it seems bright.
Thanks buddy. I just hope I get another good one like my first. I wished I had a light meter. I would love to see what this thing registered on a good one.
It's going to my son. He can keep the other one as well.
Just got mine today - ordered from redlog on 11/1/2011. Part of the SS Bezel is not polished (they missed a spot about a half inch long). And of course it has the green circuit board so its underdriven - measured around 2.2A at the tailcap with a freshly charged protected trustfire flame from DX @ 4.19v. About the same as my Ultrafire X2 with a tighter hotspot and not quite as bright at a distance. Seems to weigh slightly less. Still a nice light - I like it.
Yeah, its a shame they nerfed it with that driver - the Trustfire C8 would be a better deal. I look at this way - when/if the driver unglues itself I'll probably try to replace it with the 2.8A driver or maybe someone knows where we could get a 3.5A+ driver for it?