Received my Tangsfire HD2010 today from Old Lumens Group Buy.
Put a Protected 18650 in and checked it out. Ok for a minute then got hot and shut down. After checking, centering ring was starting to melt/deform so I did a complete tear down. Turns out the led also got hot and twisted on the star.
No problem, I desoldered driver and reflowed led back on. Can't believe I did it. My first attempt and it was a success (thanks to OL video) and it worked as should.
Cleaned it all up and re-thermal pasted the star in the pill and all is well. Can't for the life of me figure what caused it to get hot though. Seems to be working fine for now.
ETA. Anybody receiving HD2010 with 0-ring installed on pill you had better rermove it or risk shorting out the led.
I wouldn’t really think so, but then again I managed to do the same thing with my HD2010 when I got it. I ran it for a while and then took off the bezel/lens/reflector to check the innards and accidentally spun the emitter on the mcpcb (Whoops!). I didn’t realize it spun… Lots of heat in the wrong places after trying to turn it on and no light emerged.
I also received the Tangsfire from OLs group buy. Mine is not so great. It has all 5 modes, but even on high, it’s not in direct drive. It only draws about 1 amp on high. Even on my bench top power supply, it only draws about 1 amp.
The way the reflector is built, they had to use a tall plastic emitter ring to keep the reflector from shorting the LED wires. That plastic ring completely screws up the alignment and makes for one ugly beam. I’ll have to replace the driver, shave down the alignment ring, and do a little carving on the bottom of the reflector to make this light wort keeping.
I got my tangsfire from the group buy and get 4.8 amps with a King Kong 26650. That is after I tightened the pill. As it came I had umpteen flashy modes. Now it is fine, but will soon get a dedomed XML2.
Texas Toasted, and anybody else listening, another thing to consider is some of these HD2010's came with an o-ring installed on the pill
TAKE THAT O-RING OFF IF IT CAME THAT WAY.
That's what caused mine to SHORT!
I PM'd with Old-Lumens today and he confirmed he had received only one HD2010 that had the o-ring installed on the pill. He also had to remove it to get proper function My Tangsfire had one too.
The o-ring on the pill prevents the reflector from seating flush in the head. When you thread down on the bezel, POOF !
I did remove the pill, clean out the aluminum drill shavings, and re-tighten everything. Just running the Pill by itself, outside the light, directly off my bench power supply at 4.2V, it only draws one amp.
The light I received is really not very good. The reflector is fogged and dirty, the threads are rough, the pill has to be unscrewed about a turn to raise the emitter up against the bottom of the reflector, but the LED still cannot get deep enough inside the reflector for proper alignment due to the width of the reflector base, and the driver has obvious issues.
I just wanted to see why this light was getting so much attention on BLF when there are so many better made lights for just a few dollars more.
That is a huge bummer toasted. Sounds like you got one with several parts lacking QC.
A good one focuses to a crisp center hotspot circle that looks absolutely stunning. Although it does seem to take a good deal of tweaking to achieve this. ( I had to carve a centering ring since I accidentally melted the stock ring. )
sorry Texas… look like your light came toasted :zipper_mouth_face:
but mine came just fine, just hoping the no name brand is as good…
well unfortunately can’t be said the same with my FandyFire HD2010… it’s very dim :_(
it was working fine for awhile and suddenly just went dim for no reason, and the light didn’t even been used for more than 2 minutes at a time :weary:
Now it is fine, but will soon get a dedomed XML2.
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