I ran my four samples 7 hours on Eneloops. 4 hours full or near-full brightness. Visible dimming around 5-6 hours. A few lumens or less at 7 hours. Immediately tested the batteries after pulling at the 7 hour mark and got voltages from 0.82V to 1.02V.
Correct. Tint difference isn’t dramatic enough for my phone to capture well, and not enough to be annoying (to me anyway). The left two appear slightly green, right two slightly rosy.
To me the TCR/CRI appears quite poor. Take that with a large grain of salt because of my dislike for super cool temps, and I’m bad at estimating CRI anyway.
A couple other pics. Disassembly is easy enough. A firm counterclock twist and the glued-on top comes off:
And the emitter. The dome isn’t scratched up like it appears, I think those are reflections:
Anyway, obviously not for serious use but definitely worth a dollar just to mess around with.
Nice breakdown, thanks for taking the time. And thanks to OP (and Snakebite) for sharing the find. Snagged 5 today while in the store on unrelated business. Glove box and junk drawer stuffers for a totally painless price. I did throw a Sofirn 18650 in one just out of curiosity. Worked fine, but obviously a little loose around the belt line. 21700 was too long, but fit diameter wise.
Really not sure what the big deal is.
LOWES has a three pack of all metal lights for $10 they are quite decent and all metal construction. Same 3 x AAA.
Now, a too-common friend of ours locally...Crotalus horridus...did get his name for a reason. I wish snakes fluoresced like scorpions do so you could see them at night with a good UV. Then again, that would probably be even more unsettling than the scorps...it's incredible just how many scorpions can be scuttling around after the sun sets.
At the full up big box WM, not the little neighborhood, they had a huge assortment of lights from several brands, types, etc.
There was the 10-pack of aluminimun tubes AAA, but they are shorter and have a square emitter and reflector, $9.82 with batteries, but i think they will have a yellow stained beamer.
There was a 3 tubes+2 headlights pack with 15 AAA of a much longer and fatter diameter Al tube AAA light with a really long front spring, it might even hold a 20700 cell. i tested one and it has the square emitter and an annoying yellow blob on the edge of the central beam, same price as the 10-pack. Maybe useful as a host for 18650 or bigger, but the beam sux.
A USB rechargeable lithium, 750 lemons with hi and lo modes, $29. Did not test it.
Lots of bling-bling, a feast for your iballs if you don’t mind going offline shopping…
Scorpions. Ah. I can tell ya some kinda horrific painful stories. Suffice to say it’s night now and I don’t wanna keep ya kiddies up and then have the boogie man ta deal with too.
Been stung TWICE the past year. Ya my friend, Mr. Silvestrii. It may be common as house flies butt its sting is A LOT worse than they let on here. Btw, the smaller the pincers the worse the sting - my unfortunate experience.
Note the changes to my signature. The OT 50L is the Reference Standard for determining TCR. If a particular flash demonstrates any TCR flaw then the highest rating it can reach is 9.5. For every TCR flaw the rating is adjusted downward by .5 in the 1-10 scale.
i doubt the ot50l is much of a reference standard for anything.
as i noted earlier the color rendering is beat by the ebay 5mm leds.
and i doubt those are the best.
Butt ya come on here like ya know from firsthand experience. :person_facepalming:
PS. I removed “has been given” and replaced it with “has a”.
Thx for pointing that out. Semantics can be important to some that like ta nitpick so that they can appear superior.
PSS. Snakebit apparently has bought one so I stand corrected. He sez that some 9 led ebay high CRI flash beats it like a red-head stepchild. I’d have to know exactly which e-bay 9 led this is, buy one, and then compare the two.
How about removing all doubt by investing a $1.00? :laughing: Then talk.
You claim it’s beat by ebay 5mm leds. Exactly watt leds I haven’t a clue. Not that it’s relevant. So again, how do you know if you haven’t bought one to compare?
PS. If ya need a $1.00 lemme know and I’ll paypal it over. :money_mouth_face:
PSS. Oops. Looks like it sold-out online already. Better invest that $1.00 and get that TCR Reference Standard in person. Ya don’t wanna look like yer talking outta yer, ya know watt, like a couple here. :laughing:
PSSS. Snakebit apparently has bought one so I stand corrected. He sez that some 9 led ebay high CRI flash beats it like a red-head stepchild. I’d have to know exactly which e-bay 9 led this is, buy one, and then compare the two.
:laughing: 
