I received the Manker Godmess light from the 3rd BLF Contest win today.
First impressions are really good, quality is top notch, and with a Camo lanyard it matches my Samsung Note-3 case perfectly! (which my phone has the App to control the Godmess unique Bluetooth feature.
- Once i get things back on track with my current situation, i will do the review over the next month or two. I may do a first time video review of this light too.
For a triple-emitter/triple-18650 light, it is small & compact. The battery tube section is the smallest i have seen so far. (not much bigger diameter than a D-size Maglite’s body.)
The video at the 0:20 mark shows that the batteries all go in with the positive terminal facing toward the head. That usually is a sign that they are being employed in parallel.
Toward the end of the video, the review gives a glimpse of how the bluetooth controls are set up. Pretty neat!
Yep, they are in parallel. Meaning it can run on one or two cells in an emergency, and with 3 in parallel there is no need for protected cells or balance problems.
Interesting… your right, i just tried mine and it lights up only two with two cells, and one with one cell. They must either power each LED with each cell, or used an electronic limiter to shut down an LED if a cell is missing, in theory then the run times on all modes will be the same with one cell as with three, but with a diminished brightness.
So would you be able to put it three different cells without any problems that a typical 3 cell light would have? I realize the leds might not be the same brightness but could you say, put in three cells in with voltages ranging from 3.7 to 4.2 or so without any adverse effects?