I’ve just received my HT08, and I have to say that stephenk’s review is bang on target. It matches my impressions perfectly. Well done!
Thank you for the operating instructions :+1: I can’t believe there’s no instruction sheet in the box :person_facepalming:
Having seen some other members slagging this light off while I was waiting for mine, I was worried that I was in for a disappointment. I’m happy to say that the light wasn’t that bad in the end. Basically, it’s a OK light, but it could have been better. The light loss in the zoom setting is just as painful as people said it was.
I’m impressed by the floody setting, though, that’s a really wide beam. With the neutral tint, it’ll be perfect in medium mode for lighting up a decent area in a power cut, or whilst puttering about in the attic. No need to ceiling bounce, just attach it to a curtain rail or a light fixture and light up the area beneath.
I can report that this light has plenty of space for protected cells. It works quite happily with my Fenix 3200 mAh and EagTac 3400 mAh protected cells.
I get the distinct impression that heat dissipation is significantly better in flood mode than zoom mode. It occurs to me that the tube thread would be in contact with the widest, best heatsinking part of the head when the light’s in flood mode. I wonder if that’s what makes the difference?
EDIT: I measured the beam at full zoom; it turns out to be about 11cm at 1m, which is 6 or 7 degrees wide. Flood beam is about 90 degrees wide.
Hey Jerommel, did this path widening make the light considerably better? I just received an HT08 from Gearbest and I opened the bezel. It looks like a good amount of light is lost in throw mode... Also, how did you do that? In a lathe? Thank you!
Got mine last week.
Super impressed with the flood at 30\35 yds or so
20 max at 50% beam.
Best short range lamp I have. And at $14ish….
Wass just wondering. Is there a “Reflector” avail that would fit IN the threaded area inside the head.
Then maybe screw body, out\in to fit.??
Just to see if it ’could be” a better zoom.
Giving more of the avail light output from chip, Rather than being absorbed by the black spiral (Threading) inside head area?.
Maybe worth a thought.
I use it as my spread torch 50% beam,
along with my C8 XM-L2 at 100%, for throw.
Coupla good. well built cheapies. Which is what this forum is about, hey.
Whoa, old post already, but hadn’t yet seen it…
Yeah, well, a lathe, not really…
I McGyvered the head on a drill, and then i used a dremel clone with a very small mill bit…
Took some 2 hours to get it done…
Yeah, it made it better. Probably nearly doubled the output, but the fresnel lens sucks…
Works much better with an aspheric, but that will stick out the front in this light…
I haven’t (yet) bothered modding it further.
