9-30-15 The Baseball bat light arrived today! I’ll let the pics tell the story …
A few points of interest… the battery on top touches a contact plate that has a single long positive lead down to the driver contact plate at the base of the “barrel”. Each of these spring bearing pcb has a brass retaining ring, the driver appears to be 22mm (my digital caliper I keep in the house was awol) From the driver, 2 22ga silicone wires go the length of the barrel to the pill out at the end of the bat. This is the aluminum pill pictured above, nice reflector, a plastic cover piece for zero chance of a short, all in all everything is perfectly fitted. The ano is gorgeous! The threads are coarse, large threads that make good contact if a bit loose like all standard threads, nothing special just some good heavy duty contact. It’s heavy! The barrel is 7/16” thick walls where the wires are running through! The bezel is 1/8” thick aluminum, the lens is also 1/8” thick and beveled on both sides… good ol plain glass. XM-L2 1A emitter, nice beam profile, if a bit under powered and with the ole standard 5 mode strobe sos thing. And it won’t do the 1100 lumens they said, I got 690 out the front on the brightly colored but no named 2200mAh cells they provided with it in the kit format. (low discharge rate cells) I saw 0.95A at the tail with these, fresh off the charger.
So the driver could use some tweaking, but really for what it’s designed for it’s just about right. The strobe and sos modes could be very helpful for a car light, but the danged next mode memory kills me.
Well built, solid as all get out, excellent fit and finish but a bit weak. All in all, I’m impressed!
Hiya hiya!
I recently found out about the new SupFire Baseball Torch… it’s a mini baseball bat style light made out of bar stock material, heavy enough to bonk things and stay in good shape and well made, it’s a 20” long 2lb light in 3 color choices, Black, Rose, Blue anodized aluminum with a Cree XM-L2 at an advertised 1100 lumens. This is one of the few lights where the old Strobe and SOS modes would be well left intact, a great car light/club to carry for emergencies of all kinds. It has 2 18650’s in the handle of the bat, I have one screen shot of the light and will be getting more pics from SupFire to show.
The deal is, at 100 pcs they’ll sell them to us for $20 each. BUT, as is typical for SupFire there is a shipping charge of $11 and a PayPal Fee they want us to pay. So a total shipped price would be $32.
Have a look, give me some feedback and let’s see if this is a viable group buy for the forum.
Oh, I’m paying $58 to get one DHL’d to me, should have it in a week or less. (no review light here, this one’s costing me! But it’s a kit, with their branded cells and a charger. )
I’ll try and get some pics from them, and will have my own pics in a few days.
Thanks for looking, and for your participation should you be interested in a “tire thumper” flashlight.
Dale
Here’s a pic they sent me of the light in it’s box. Blue anodized, looks awesome!
You can see the place for charger and cells in the box for the higher priced kit. I can find out what a total price would be on the kit version if that’s the way y’all would like to go, and I’ll also ask if it can be mixed or one/other.