yes, I know it, just don’t know what exactly happened with driver, no any smell that there burned something, nothing… and yes, it lost some of the brightness, maybe like ~200-300lm, but added 100% of runtime and not hot as before, and thats awesome - 242 min. on high with 3400 Panasonics before first ramp down. so sad I don’t know how to do this “mod” with my second, ramping NW RM170 :bigsmile: have no idea why this torch not released like this from begin - 2000+ lumens, not getting crazy hot, and with loooongest runtime. below beamshots for compare;
no, driver works fine, all modes available, just lost some of brightness and temperature on high mode, but these “losses” for me looks like acquisitions, hope it will work like this within a looong time, it’s awesome!
I’ve been thinking lately of getting the well-liked SRK but instead ordered the Roche M170 nw from Bill of Doingoutdoor. almost the same price with CNQ’s SRK (got it at $68.99, shipped), together with Panasonic NCR unprotected 3100 buttontops from FT, I wonder which package will arrive first.
Wow. These M170s are selling so cheap, I’m almost thinking of getting another just to try a mod on. Do you think that there are any LEDs that would really change this light if they were swapped?
Just received my M170 from BangGood.
I choose the XM-L2 T6-4C version over the XM-L2 U2-1A version which add $4.50 to a total of $96 but with code bgf147 I got it at $81.99.
So a little less than fastech which is “only” XM-L.
Ordered 17/12/13, received 06/01/2014 via sweden post to France (which seems to come from singapore before that)
From what I can say now as I just received it, I like the build quality but I must be carefull with the sharp thread (already greased).
My package is slightly different, no “flashlight” marking on the box and I don’t have the magnet with its spring.
The flattop adapter is bent the same but work with my green/yellow LG unprotected 18650.
I love the UI, that’s why I choose the M170 over a SRK even it’s twice the price.
What is strange is that on high, it dim a little then come back to full power. Stepless ramping is lovely. The quick strobe gave me headache.
The minimum mode could have been lower, but I say that because I fitted a DrJones Lucidrv driver in my Convoy S2 that now give me a true very low mode (and so much combination that I don’t yet finished to play with it).
The tint is slightly cooler than one of my XM-L2 T6-4C, that have quite an amber tint, maybe it’s a T6-3C but it do turn red object to something blue and rose.
Here are my first thought of this great flashlight.
edit : I tested again and along with the strange behaviour on high, I noticed that on the L/M/H mode, it gave me only L/M/M. When switched on, it’s bright, go dim then ramp up but what I thought first that it came back on high, in fact just go on medium. So I decided to charge again my green/yellow LG 18650. Once fully charged (it was quick they were almost fully charged), it do to me the same again…
So I tested with some red sanyo (that I reserved for my vamo V3) and it works! True full power and no dimming on high.
Still I don’t understand why because the LG batteries were somewhere between 4.1 and 4.2V, same as the Sanyo.
Any updates on the M170? Thinking of getting one but it seems like some members have had reliability problems with it. If reliable it looks like quite a light.
