I have a Sunwayman M40a XML T6, a nice light that takes 4AA cells. It is like new. However, I just don’t use it. I bought it ten or more years ago and I used it for cross country running. Part of me wants to sell it, why keep it in a cupboard? But part of me wants to keep it as a memento. I have the older MCE light too, but that’s bashed about.
Thoughts? Do you keep old lights?
I could keep it as a house decoration, but the anodising will fade. It has already a little fading, black has turned brown on one area.
Yes.
I have two boxes with flashlights.
The one on two shelves are my S-Tier and then I have A and B tier in those boxes.
At the moment I am modding some of my A/B lights and put them on the shelves - I wonder if your 4xAA battery light is big enough to fit a 26650 or 18650 with a sleeve?
The sleeve can easily be made from old leaflets.
Most possibly you would have to change the driver.
It might be a tricky modification given the driver likely has a hall effect sensor as part of the magnetic ring.
A 5050 footprint LED swap, and perhaps a sense resister mod would be the limit of reasonable modification, imo.
With regards to selling, I looked on eBay for sold lights, no results for Sunwayman M40a, I guess maybe £25 for it(?) the question is, would you be happier owning the light or £25…?
I have the same light, first XM-L version that landed in NL. Just in time to take it with me on a holiday to Belgium.
I remember scaring the s* out of a flock of geese that was resting/sleeping on a reservoir near our bungalow.
My intention is to keep it. I never use it anymore but it’s one of the few lights I can lend to a muggle without fear he/she will burn down their or my house.
Good point, if it’s that little, maybe £20 after eBay fees, I’d rather keep it. It does 600 real lumens for 90 minutes, so it’s still a performant light.
I considered a new emitter, but it seems it’s hard to access, and it would be my first attempt at an emitter swap. No idea battery wise. An 18650 is too long, and a battery requires a weird adapter, both contacts are at the head end.
I recently sold two Jetbeam RRT01 lights, one mint, for what I paid for them ten years ago. That was back when BLF deals were really good i.e. half price.
Keep it for emergencies. Never know when you’ll need a light and only have a pile of AAs. Just keep the batteries outside vs “storing” them in the light. Then again, that may just make the decision easier whether to keep it or toss it once the alkaleaks crap up the insides of the light.
I’ve got an EA8, The Cave Man, which takes 4S2P and can run with 1- or 2 strings of cells. I admit, I haven’t touched it in years, but I got it in case I need it. And if I got a pile of AAs to burn off, I might as well do so in that light instead of just waiting for them to dissolve into a pile of caustic goo on their own.
Unfortunately, I do have piles of lights I’ve forgotten about, mainly NIB and only “used” to test them to see if they work, but got put back once The Old Standby showed to be more familiar and handier than the new light. Like, just how many tubelights can you have? Each one is like 90% in common with all the others, with the remaining 10% being Something Different, but not enough to dethrone The Old Standby.
I never use Alkaleaks unless the device won’t work with NiMH. The latter are only 1.2V of course.
I once had a Sunwayman D80A, 8AA like your EA8, 1,000 lumens, but big and heavy. They were going cheap from a US shop. I would like an EA81, but they are expensive.
