I was given this light by DinoDirect
Typical crushed white box and bubble wrap.
Is that a cut o-ring?
Yep, definitely a cut o-ring.
Light on:
Inside:It’s not much of a review because I couldn’t take beam shots or give any comments on how it was to use.
The big problem with this light is that it doesn’t make enough light to be useful for anything,
LED:
When I got the package I pulled the 18650 out of my EDC so I could test it right away, I noticed the cut o-ring when I was taking the tail cap off. With a cell in it I hit the switch and there was a brief red flash and then nothing. Well close enough to nothing that you can’t tell the light is on unless you look directly at the LED. I tried again with a fully charged cell and still nothing, later I tried it with a bench supply at 9 volts and it was maybe twice as bright but still well below moonlight.
When I took the light apart, I was disappointed that the LED doesn’t appear to be a CREE emitter and it was not mounted on a MCPCB it was just sitting on a blob of thermal compound over some Kapton tape with wires soldered to the leads.
I’ve been wanting to play with mono color lights I’ve been thinking about buying or building some so I was happy to win the giveaway. I’m also glad that I didn’t pay for the light. Thank you DinoDirect for the host and P60 drop in that I can build a light out of.
