I do very much mind the bigger size, but it’s a regulated drop in output, dependent on cooling ability (air temp, air flow, heat dissipation from other objects) and the smooth drop is mostly unnoticeable, I believe it will still be around 700-800 lumens after 10-15 mins on turbo according to reviews I read.
The timed step I can imagine being frustrated pausing what I’m doing to turn the light off and back on every minute literally… And I think they have nearly equal hot spot size and throw, but the spill is a lot more usable on the HC30. In fact, the HC30 might have more throw (177m on Nitecore site vs I thought I read the DQG having a mere 140m? I would buy the HC30W that just dropped rather than cool white, I heard the neutral option on the DQG is unpleasant and extremely warm yellow. (I have no warm lights, so to dive in the deep end to 3k rather than a small drop from 6k to 4.5-5k temp might leave me disappointed.)
PS. My experience on this forum started an hour ago and it is awesome!!! So active, replies flying left and right in minutes, CPF seems less popular at least in some forum categories lol.
no, if you click it once, it goes to low
no memory
if you click twice, med, 3 x - high
turbo from off is one long press
{answering question “does dqg tiny 18650 start on high?”}
Mine’s got some comparable scratches. I bought a faulty DQG AAA in the past, at least this one works
Still very much like the size, but quality in general sucks. With only slight scratches as an EDC for me it’s oke though…
Offcourse it should be flawless, good luk with aftermarket sales…
Will post my mod once done. Still need some work on the driver.
I have a grey from Banggood, and it was very nice anodizing, with the bit of color mismatch that is “normal” for DQG tiny it seems. No scratches or flaws like shown…
If you want long runtimes at max power, how about the Zebralight SC600w III HI
Build quality is superb both inside and out.
The light has no timed turbo stepdown.
Thermal stepdown is unnoticeable. The light will maintain near max brightness for the life of the battery.
Excellent output: over 1100 lumens
Wide flood, with excellent throw (19,000 lux)
Shorter than most other 1x18650 lights, which is important for pocket-carry. Still considerably larger than the DQG though.
Flawless build quality
Perfect tint
Great UI
In my opinion, the SC600w III HI is probably the best stock light I’ve ever owned. It’s so good that Vinh gave up on modifying one because none of his modifications made a significant difference on performance. About the only bad thing about Zebralights is they can’t be modded by most amateur modders.
Not sure exactly what size driver will fit in. It’s larger than 17mm. I think maybe 20mm.
HOWEVER… the biggest problems is that the original driver includes both the driver and emitter on the same board. This allows for the most compact light possible, but unfortunately doesn’t allow you to simply swap in a new driver. Any new driver you could buy won’t have the emitter on it, and there isn’t room to install a single-emitter star, the optic and a new separate driver board.
Essentially, if you want more power, the only option is to convert this light to a triple. The Carclo triple TIR optic is 7mm shallower than the stock TIR. This frees up enough space to mount a star in front of the driver.