Ok good to know, i agree that it is probably the TIR & also that slight fish eye effect you can get in closeups in photos.
I wonder if you can figure out where we got the 3mm extra, maybe we got a thicker shelf but i wouldnāt bet on it is probably something useless like a longer tube.
But a deeper driver area would be nice also.
Iām curious about this also as I have one coming from ebay and one from Fasttech. If anyone can comment on any noted quality differences between the two sources Iād appreciate it. Mine should be here soon so Iāll do the same once they are received.
Mine is also very lose but i had no problem with mode changes though.
But i used mine just to check if it worked at all, as a stock light, i wouldnāt want to use it on AA anyway, very dim & a blue harsh led
Maybe it gets nicer stock with a 14500 in it, i bought i as a host from the start, for a nice XP-L V6 in a tint i like + wightās FET+1x7135 driver
I hope i can fit it in there it is a little cramped for space, but i just realized i can use a 17mm driver in this nice, that makes this much more possible.
Here is some pics on the disassembled Super Light.
Top of light where the o ring + glass lens holds it in by the reflector that i accidentally melted
Driver compartment
It is 15,47mm to the bottom of the driver area & 10,82mm to the ledge that the driver sits on & it is 4,65mm deep.
The driver area is 14,97mm wide & the ledge that the driver sits on is max ~17mm.
The shelf that the mcpcb lays on is 17,10mm wide, it is anodized so if sanded down to bare aluminum it would provide better heatsinking
Yeah, it is so much easier to work on the shelf when it is inverted like in this light so you donāt have to try and do all those things, down it to the head like in most lights.
But i think we get a little worse heatsinking when the head is in 2 pieces like this, maybe if we wrap the threads with some copper tape like how they wrap the P60 inserts to improve heatsinking.
Using a Trustfire Flame 900mah last night I got 55 minutes on high. It became hot, but nothing terrible. You could hold it without issue. One the low mode (which as noted is more of a high medium) Iāve gone 3 hours and 15 minutes so far. Had to turn it out as it was past my bedtime. On medium it really didnāt get warm at all. Iāll have to test further when Iāve got more time to see the full run time on the medium mode.
With the TF flame it was noticeably brighter than the GTL 14500. I have no way to compare actual lumens, but by eye the medium on the 14500 was at least as bright as the high on an Eneloop AA.
Cool mods,this flashlight looks also a bit like Tank007 E19.
For the fun of it I have Sanyo 14500,XPG-2 warm white led and 3x7135 driver arriving someday in the future.The standard plastic reflector with XPE has OK beam,I hope the XPG-2 doesnāt change it too much.
That Fasttech optic really is a nice one.I have it in my XR-E light,it has measured 15 degree beam almost like aspheric ,with wide and dim spill.I also tested it with XML-2 and it was nice but very wide beam.
I was going to order an aluminum OP reflector to try but forgot it,and now the order is on itās way.
High - less than 10 minutes
Low - 1 hour 15 minutes
As can readily be seen, the GTL is no where near 1600mah. I would have cut the capacity in half but looks more like itās actually about a fourth i.e. less than 400mah. Pretty happy with the results of the TF Flame 900mah though. I will need to get a different brand of 14500 as a comparison. Looks to be very close to Servilleās Sanyo 14500.