4.80 AA light from Fast Tech

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 :smiley: but i wouldnā€™t bet on it is probably something useless like a longer tube.
But a deeper driver area would be nice also.

Yes, most of the difference is in the body tube. There is only a marginal difference in the size of the heads.

Anybody else experience sloppy threads in these super lights...or was I the Lone Ranger here?

Iā€™m 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 Iā€™d appreciate it. Mine should be here soon so Iā€™ll do the same once they are received.

Thanks,

John.

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 wouldnā€™t want to use it on AA anyway, very dim & a blue harsh led :frowning:

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 :slight_smile: + wightā€™s FET+1x7135 driver :smiley:

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 :slight_smile: nice, that makes this much more possible.

Oh well, it was an EZ fix. Mode twisting functions and fires like a high dolllar torch now.

Always good to know how to tune up the threads, when i start to use it if i need to :slight_smile:

You used just a little aluminum foil tape right, like this ?

That's right. I started with teflon but it wasn't enough. The foil does wonders for sloppy threads.

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 :frowning:

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 :wink:

Boost driver board is 16,90mm wide

Battery tube with spring

Size comparison with my Jexree Mini

And a Pen :wink:

Niceā€¦thanks for the pics

I see that this one still has the divot on the emitter shelf. I used a file, sandpaper, and rubbing compound to flatten that out...

Yeah, it is so much easier to work on the shelf when it is inverted like in this light so you donā€™t 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) Iā€™ve gone 3 hours and 15 minutes so far. Had to turn it out as it was past my bedtime. On medium it really didnā€™t get warm at all. Iā€™ll have to test further when Iā€™ve 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.

Thanks for the info...

thinking about ordering a few as well.. seem to be great lights for gifting!

Iā€™ve received 2 of the Super Light, great for the price. Would be nice
if there was option for clicky instead of twisty.

I just saw the ThruNite T10, this light looks very similar & is probably a clone of it, check out Tom Eā€™s :mod of the T10

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 doesnā€™t change it too much.

Yeah you are right, that is very similar but with a clicky instead, i really hope the super light maker will do a clicky version also someday :slight_smile:

Because that Tank looks nice but is very expensive + Tankā€™s usually is glued a lot :frowning:

If the beam isnā€™t nice with the stock reflector + XP-G2 you can always drop in the fasttech optic someone foand in this thread :slight_smile:

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 itā€™s way.

Reviewing some actual run times:

Using a Trustfire Flame 900mah:

High - 55 minutes
Low - 3 hours 20 minutes

Purple GTL 1600mah (cheap Ebay battery):

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 itā€™s 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 Servilleā€™s Sanyo 14500.