In my other SRK thread "The Securitylng", I said that there were two sellers that shipped in the US, so there shouldn't be a long wait.
Well the second one came today, Priority Mail. It's from a new ebay seller, but since it ships in the US, I took a chance.
Came in the standard white box.
With the manual and lanyard.
Looks like an SRK. No nicks, dings or scrapes that I see and it looks as good as any other SRK I have seen.
These are XM-L and they are advertised as T6
The Bezel and the Button are Aluminum.
The tail cap will Not come off without heating.
From the seller's photos, I thought this would be the three torrid driver, but as you can see, I have been duped again!
I don't know which driver yet, but it sure isn't what is in the ebay photo!
OK, so it works... It has the normal two modes H/L and the strobe. It is not bright!
My amp readings were only 4.5 amps on High and 500mA on low.
Fit and finish is as good as any other King I have handled. Possibly a little looser at the body to head threads.
I would NOT recommend this light, unless you just wanted to strip it down and mod it, which is what I will have to do. It's not bright and it has a no name driver in it, which is a lie, if you go by the ebay photos.
Buyer be warned...
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Not much to tear down really.
I use a needle nosed pliers to turn out the switch housing.
To get the switch out, I just turn it over and rap it against my palm a few times. It usually will come free enough for me to get to it that way.
There's a lot of things you can use to push the driver out with. I am using bent nosed tweezers here.
I just get the nose in there and I feel around the edge of the driver and select a spot that feels like a bare spot, where I won't ruin a component and then I just push straight down till the driver pops out.
What a mess. Another useless driver. Three fets this time, one per channel.
K1 & K2 are for the switch wires. L1+, L2+ & L3+ are for the positive led leads and L1-, L2- & L3- are for the negative led leads.
The led shelf also unscrews in this light. I took it out and then separated the reflector by removing the screw underneath.
That's about it. I will be doing something with it, but I am not sure what yet. This will be my replacement light for the 4C that I was going to use at work. They can't bitch about this one being too long... Next they will bitch about it being too bright and might blind an attacker - pansies...
Maybe I should have said that there seems to be a level of intensity where it’s already so bright that having it any brighter really doesn’t matter much. Bright enough. Of course that’s all totally subjective like love, hate and the best flavor ice cream.
The 11A mod is sweet! I wonder if replacing the mcu with one from Dr Jones would work? (are these things interchangable?)