16770

It’s only 2.1A at 100% and 0.7A at 35%.

As above, the sense resistor is the wrong value.

Guessing the 0.1% level is then far too low to emit light.

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16771

Heads up @Simon_Mao and everyone: it seems several people reporting same problem with Kaidomain, Firefly, etc. on this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/1ntievi/kaidomain_counterfeit_postage/

Maybe you should stop using USPS as last mile delivery agent for now, at least for me. It appears the warning is real and confirmed by people who contact USPS. It does seem like something has recently changed.

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16772

Wow, this driver is completey broken now, if these values are true.

Fortunately, I have eight of the old ones, with proper output (and convoy marking on PCB)

Lucky for those who can change the resistor themselves (and have it in stock).

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16773

See update

Correction: received these end of July, not April.

16775

Maybe it was an attempt to improve “moonlight” mode (0.1%) by using higher resistance. But something was messed up in the firmware.

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16776

Nice eye! This discrepancy would indeed be consistent with quartering of the maximum current observed by @PiercingTheDarkness.

I’m still very surprised that 0.1% now makes no light at all, since it was extremely bright (I’d say on the order of 5-10lm) in the previous version.

16777

But shouldn’t that be tested before delivery (or before producing a larger batch)?

In my opinion, this is one of the most important things when manufacturing items in large (and small) quantities in a factory. It’s really bad what happened there - at least, if the huge difference in max current is really true. I actually thought that this wasn’t an issue anymore these days.

@PiercingTheDarkness you sure that you set 100 % in both lights in the video?

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16778

Who on earth requested that change! It’s all their fault lol

16779

150% yes. This is officially a 2.1A driver until it’s fixed.

You can confirm this by the video, the next mode is 0.1% with no light.

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16780

Hey, is the EVE 50PL with green warping has really bad self discharge?
It was my first tabless batteries and I thought it was normal, but then I got myself some Reliance RS50’s and they doesn’t seems to be doing that.

3 ish weeks ago I charge my 50PL to 3.6V for storage outside a flashlight, and now one is at 3.4V and the other at 3.5V. Am I just unlucky or is that normal self discharge rate?
Bought them all from Convoy store, the 50PL was before it was swapped to red warping/grade B.

16781

bruh, that’s just bad. (and hilarious at the same time, ngl)

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16782

At least this fixes the overheating problem lol

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16783

If someone has enough resistor values he can test at which sense resistor the moonlight finally turns on lol

What was the reaction on reddit?

16784

I posted about it and then deleted it. Simon needs to confirm this driver is still current. I’m really hoping this was just a small batch, but I really doubt it considering I’m the only one who’s reported it.

16785

If you’re the only one who has reported this so far, hopefully the batch size of these “2.1 A buck” (hopefully) should be quite small?

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16788

I would be curious if this redesign also affects the 20 mm 8A buck driver.

16789

Just let me get this straight: We have a sample size on ONE and all of a sudden, all the drivers are trash and people shouldn’t buy lights with them?

In the last couple of days, some people seem to be hyper-critical with Simon for everything out of nowhere?

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16791

This is 15x units, not just one flashlight here.

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16792

Don’t mean to dog pile on Simon but while we’re on the topic of issues, has anyone bought a T6 or other T-series light recently? I got some spare rubber boots from Simon a month ago and noticed they were bulging out because the rubber post on the inside was too long, when I asked Simon he said they were manufactured by a different company. I’m not sure if they were a small sample batch or if all the buttons are like this now.

Example as shown: black is the bulging switch, white is the normal sitting switch

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16793

ONE person who received 15 flashlights.