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    Ever Since I Put My Arc AAA-P On My Keychain...

    Agreed; I always carry my 2nd gen AAA-p. Occasionally, one or another light catches my fancy and for a time I carry it, but year after year the Arc continues to ride in my pocket, unlike many others, it never gets left home. The Arc has a subtle style, a feeling of quality, of things that...
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    What's your perfect UI?

    I hear you about missing a mode, that's why I'd like a full rotary. I'm sure I'd know if a light is off or not, so one single TwistClick left would get me High, one TwistClick right for Low, then one more (in either direction) for Medium. Not much chance of missing a mode that way. All this...
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    What's your perfect UI?

    For the most part, just two modes, Low & High, with low about 12-15 lumens. No strobe, blinky, SOS or any of the other gimmick modes. I have a lot of lights, many with 3,4,5 different modes (or more in the case of my Liteflux). The only multi-mode light I use at all is the Fenix L0D CE...
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    Arc AAA-P Moon Mode - doesn't exist

    I have the latest version of the Arc-P and Moon mode on mine lasts way longer than my patience with dim light does; I change the battery ASAP when it drops. I've left mine on a few times by accident while working on computers (it happens more often than I care to admit). The last time I did...
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    An experimental L0D CE 2 AAA

    I know about them but I haven't tried them yet. I might not for a while yet either; you see, the L0D CE has kind of spoiled me. If I reach for another light I have to stop and ask myself why. The L0D with 10440's outperforms anything else I can get into my pocket. Even if I carry a couple of...
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    An experimental L0D CE 2 AAA

    Nope - your right on, it's wrong on the post as well since I said they were AAAs (should have read AA) - I used AA's clipped to the head with a switch for that since I didn't have any AAA NIMH's but I did want to see how it would run with 2.4 volts. The 2300s hadn't been used for a couple of...
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    An experimental L0D CE 2 AAA

    I did see your post - nice job!. It pushed me along some to try to improve on my first attempt. Your right, the test showed me that I would probably not need any other light 99% of the time. I had someone else look at it and his opinion was that on 2aaa's, the L0D is doing about 9-10 lumens...
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    An experimental L0D CE 2 AAA

    I finally managed to get a dual battery tube made for an Fenix L0D CE and it was worth the effort even if it's not really usable except as an experiment. The tube was a ***** to make, I use some thin wall tubing with a soldered bottom cap. The threads were (badly) cut by a friend at a machine...
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    Anyone kill their L0D-CE with 10440's yet?

    No problems with mine either after maybe a dozen charges on 4 unprotected cells. It gets a little hot on high but that doesn't seem to bother it. Low/Medium are no problem. I just wish there were cells with more capacity, I mostly use standard lithiums because of the run time on 10440's, and...
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    Got my Elite from Kaidomain today.

    Received mine Friday, like some others, it flickered a lot and I had to re-soldered the negative wire. I had trouble soldering to the chrome edge so I roughed up the edge of the hold down screw and soldered a wire bridge to the negative terminal. Big difference!, no more flicker and the...
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    lod ce output

    I just used an old 2-AAA minimag tube that I cut down to fit. It's not threaded and doesn't fit very well so I just put in a couple of batteries and used duct tape to hold the mess together for a test. I didn't do any formal output tests, just eyeball and no runtime either. I was just...
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    lod ce output

    The L0D CE is a very nice little light. It's got real punch, and on a Lithium in Turbo mode it can come real close to a P1D in output with much the same beam. While I don't carry it every day, it does get some mileage when I need more power than my 2ndGen Arc-AAA can provide. I'd carry it...
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    Arc-AAA Premium??

    Cy got that exactly right. Times change, the Arc is still a class act but Peter really needs to look at the CREE. Set at the same output as the 5mm in there now and without optics, just maybe the CREE is a perfect match.
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    Arc-AAA Premium??

    Yes, though it's a close call if compared to the L0P CE and not the older Luxeon version where it handily wins. The Arc is easier to use and it just feels like a better quality light, It's a hard thing to define, but there's just something about an Arc that just feels like a class act, ask...
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    Arc-AAA Premium??

    Unfortunately, I can't post a beam shot, but since I own the Arc premium, an L0P and an L0P CE, I can comment that the Arc perhaps 10% brighter that the L0P CE is when on low. Beam spill is comparable but the Arc beam has an edge (in my opinion) in that it more even with less of a hot spot...
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