You are correct. The Red LED and it’s associated circuitry make the light bigger. Also, the light is moddable, while a zebralight is all press fit components, built for small size, it’s definitely not moddable. This is not a huge light, just bigger than I thought it could be.
As for pictures, I didn’t document the mod. All you will see is a frosty lens and a frosty Red LED.
One more change I made, a nice blue boot for the switch. It is a touch taller so does not head stand well, but that was never a must-have feature. Changing boots allowed me to alter the feel of the switch by removing the slop internally by adjusting how much nub I cut off in the boot. Looks better too.
Will try to do something similar to one of mine+add a magnet at the tail cap, when they arrive, wanted/needed two headlamps and it made no sense to buy something even cheaper(Nitefighter L1A costs around 13$, makes no sense buying one thus) so I went for another one!
Will share my impressions here once they arrive :D!
Yep. The 1.5-2 second delay to turn off is a bit of pain, but overall it’s a pretty nice light.
The lanyard slot may even fit a 1.4x3.5 mm trit. Not sure it’s worth it but I have a few spare so may as well!
EDIT: Nope, doesn’t fit, broke one trying to get it to fit. You can get smaller trits, but you’re getting pretty dim. On the brass lights I was mounting trits, I ended up filing the slots to widen them. Not my plan on a black anodized light…
Got mine in today. First impression is very good. The UI is not bad for me, I adapt pretty well on these things… I do not see how a turn off could be done without the 1.5-2 second push, not great, but it will not cut off accidentally either.
Very glad I have a couple of these, now I have to find a floody optic to put in and see what other mods I can work up…
Just found this website few weeks ago but decided to make a account to thank you for this thread. Was just thinking about getting a headlamp so thanks, what 16340s would you suggest for this headlamp?
Also, if i switch off the flashlight on red mode is there any way to turn it back on straight into red mode?
I took a piece of that rubberized kitchen drawer liner and a side of a piece of a 1x3. I folded the drawer liner over the edge of the wood and pressed it against the bezel until it felt like it had enough grip ( a couple of pounds of force, maybe ) and then unscrewed it. It slipped a bit, but once it was “broken free” I could turn it with just my finger tip and the drawer liner.
The bear is actually the lens… I used toothpicks and pried gently. A blast of canned air may work too, but I did not have any…
After the bezel and lens, turn it over and let gravity get the reflector…
I couldn’t get what you suggested working (no drawer liner), but I took an old credit card type card and made a kind of makeshift spanner wrench. It took a few tries, but then I got rewarded:
Now to get the rest of it apart…
EDIT: BTW, someone mentioned that the headband that comes with the H2 felt tight. I happened to get an H1 about the same time as I got the H2, and FYI, the H1 headband is significantly longer than the H2 headband.
Weird, huh? I would’ve expected that XTAR would use the same headband, but it seems like that’s not the case.
Perhaps their logic was that if its smaller headlamp it should naturally come with smaller headband :D?
Anyway, too anxious about this light, might to unsubscribe from this thread until mine arrive together with batteries and then chime back in to share my opinion :)!
Thank you, but inbetween off and the 2 clicks will it flash the white light? I am not sure if im explaining my worries but a split second flash of white can be quite bad for my eyes if we are star gazing,
Does it matter which 16340 batteries i get? ATM i do not really understand all the differences between batteries but i assume for now i should avoid batteries like ultrafire, having a quick look on ebay i see efest imr, efest gold and Aw Li-ion Protected, Aw imr …should i be looking for protected batteries?
Tinywind has sale, buy 3 batteries get one free, I bought 1 Olight 16340 and 3 Xtar 16340 from them, would get 2 Olight+2 Xtar, but Olight sold out quickly. Both protected models.
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