Hi Everybody,
comfychair sent me over here from another thread because I just got one of these from my local HD (which was suggested by Moderator007), and I had some questions, but, gosh, there are like 600+ messages in this thread :(!!
I was asking some questions about this light on the other thread, but basically, I’m wondering if there’ve been any developments with respect to using batteries like 18650s, etc., without modding the electronics in the light (I’m still not there yet)?
I’ve already tried using some C-adapters with AA Eneloops, which seems to work ok, but I guess what I’m wondering what is the voltage spec for the out-of-box driver, because I’m wondering if it’d be possible to use something like 2 x 18650s in this, along with maybe a dummy C battery?
I’m assuming that 1 x 18650 (with 2 dummy C batteries) would work, but the light would be dimmer (because of 3.7V for the 18650 vs. 3.6V-4.5V (for Nimh/Eneloops/Alkalines)? Is that correct?
Sorry if these questions have all been answered in this thread previously, but it’d (it’ll) probably take me all night to read through all 600+ messages, so I hope that someone might know the above.
Also, FYI, as mentioned, I just picked this one up today, and the situation with finding it IN the HD store apparently is still not much better than at the start of this thread.
The light is still a “no home” light, and I was lucky to be able to find it (spent about 1.5 hours, actually) after persisting with 3 of the HD employees.
I was lucky that the last guy, Don, knew that it was “no home”, and he just walked right over to where this Defiant was (it was NOT in the same place as the other Defiants) and brought one back to me.
Anyway, hope that someone can help.
Later,
Jim