- Location
- Amarillo, TX
Ok guys, here is the initial writeup, and, I'll do a bit better job in the coming days, complete with pictures.
Initial Impressions:
The light is nicely sized, it's body is the exact same body as what my Condor Tactical Light uses, but, with a different end cap, and much larger head.
If you wanted to use this as a gun light, you could, it would fit in most flashlight mounts, BUT, you would need a taller mount to accommodate for the large head.
It's got 5 functional modes, which you can cycle through with full on/off presses, or, a slight tap once the light is on. The modes are High, Medium, Low, Strobe, and SOS Strobe. from what I can tell, the strobe and SOS strobes are at medium strength, and when cycling through the modes, you won't notice much difference between the high and medium. It **DOES** do a fantastic job of beam dispersion, in what I would almost judge as the perfect pattern. It has a very nice and VERY bright center spotlight that it illuminates very well, as well as having a nice spread pattern as well. I turned it to low, set it on the tail cap (on/off switch) and turned the lights off in my bedroom, and didn't notice much difference with 4 of the CFL bulbs in my ceiling fan (non-dimmed).
As far as range goes, on high, it was illuminating stopsigns two blocks away. I won't say it illuminated everything between it and that distance, but, it certainly cast enough light that I could have seen if there was anything moving between me and that point quite easily.
Battery Life: this is the one point I can't speak to, yet, BUT, I can tell you this very *VERY* important tip. If you're the type that will use the light until the LED starts to dim, I hope you have the funds to keep buying these batteries. They're a lithium polymer battery if memory serves, and, like all rechargeable lithium batteries, there is a minimum safe voltage. I don't know if the flashlight has a circuit built in to cut off before the battery drops below that mark, or not, but, if you do drop below it, unless you have a high end "brain" style charger for RC car LiPo batteries, you aren't going to get it to charge up right, ever again.
It does appear that I *should* be able to put a pair of A123 batteries in the body and have them power the unit as disposable batteries, but, I don't think that the unit itself is designed to run with that much more voltage (6V vs the stock battery's 3.7V (which when fully charged is somewhere around 4.2V, and has a safe discharge point around 3.1V if memory serves correctly)
So far, so good, I like the lamp, my only complaint, is that it has no form of onboard battery meter, so that the user can tell where their battery is at in charge/discharge.
Initial Impressions:
The light is nicely sized, it's body is the exact same body as what my Condor Tactical Light uses, but, with a different end cap, and much larger head.
If you wanted to use this as a gun light, you could, it would fit in most flashlight mounts, BUT, you would need a taller mount to accommodate for the large head.
It's got 5 functional modes, which you can cycle through with full on/off presses, or, a slight tap once the light is on. The modes are High, Medium, Low, Strobe, and SOS Strobe. from what I can tell, the strobe and SOS strobes are at medium strength, and when cycling through the modes, you won't notice much difference between the high and medium. It **DOES** do a fantastic job of beam dispersion, in what I would almost judge as the perfect pattern. It has a very nice and VERY bright center spotlight that it illuminates very well, as well as having a nice spread pattern as well. I turned it to low, set it on the tail cap (on/off switch) and turned the lights off in my bedroom, and didn't notice much difference with 4 of the CFL bulbs in my ceiling fan (non-dimmed).
As far as range goes, on high, it was illuminating stopsigns two blocks away. I won't say it illuminated everything between it and that distance, but, it certainly cast enough light that I could have seen if there was anything moving between me and that point quite easily.
Battery Life: this is the one point I can't speak to, yet, BUT, I can tell you this very *VERY* important tip. If you're the type that will use the light until the LED starts to dim, I hope you have the funds to keep buying these batteries. They're a lithium polymer battery if memory serves, and, like all rechargeable lithium batteries, there is a minimum safe voltage. I don't know if the flashlight has a circuit built in to cut off before the battery drops below that mark, or not, but, if you do drop below it, unless you have a high end "brain" style charger for RC car LiPo batteries, you aren't going to get it to charge up right, ever again.
It does appear that I *should* be able to put a pair of A123 batteries in the body and have them power the unit as disposable batteries, but, I don't think that the unit itself is designed to run with that much more voltage (6V vs the stock battery's 3.7V (which when fully charged is somewhere around 4.2V, and has a safe discharge point around 3.1V if memory serves correctly)
So far, so good, I like the lamp, my only complaint, is that it has no form of onboard battery meter, so that the user can tell where their battery is at in charge/discharge.
