Midnight.Sun
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At first My D40A CW used to make humming sound on strobe and high modes, but the sound stopped after I reversed the battery holder direction. At some point of its life it has started to show the faint very dim LED light for a second or two after I turn the moonlight off, but then gone on its own!
I bought it in 2014, I got the CW for use inside and around the house where colours are mostly grades of white and other synthetic colours, especially handy when I open appliance for maintenance where I need to observe many coloured wires, so the CW is perfect to distinguishing white, yellow, blue, black, gray, green .. etc.
Mine is always fit with an Olight defuser (4mm), makes perfect beam for indoors, and the D40A is amazingly much better looking when fitted with it. I use this light a lot everyday (literally) to better illuminate so many dark and poorly lit areas for inspections, and it tail stands perfectly for ceiling bounce when needed, and the moonlight is perfect for eye sight adaptation at night times, so again it gets used every single home night in my case. Tried to take it out once belt carry in its pouch, it was not a good experience, it's a bit too heavy and wide for pocket or belt carry IMO, unlike my single cell flashlights.
It has so many imperfections from the first day I opened it out of it's package, I'll try to list what I can remember:
1. Ramps up in reverse, but you get used to that quickly, and was not a big deal for me at all.
2. By nature, the XM-L2 U2 has that pale brass tint around the white hotspot, but in my case the Olight defuser eliminate it completely into a beautifully even and pure white cloud of wide beam.
3. The highest mode 980 lm looks almost the same as the second high 550 lm, the closest I've experienced, and both of them heats the whole light very quickly, as it is often the case in small size flashlights.
4. The battery tube from the start screws and closes-in in a different position every time I open and re close it, it's a real mystery, the threads keeps screwing deeper and deeper every time especially when freshly lubed, and sometimes they stops a lot sooner, so I opened the head plate in the first week and got inside where the driver is located, checked where it's fixed to the head mass and everything was normal, I found nothing there, so the problem remained, I just stopped opening the battery tube unless I need to recharge or change the batteries.
5. The thin plastic buttons cover wore out and the two round buttons were shaved off leaving the under rubber that covers the electronic buttons exposed, but they look perfectly fine, only have to keep them away from water, although I think they can even withstand that the way they were chipped out in perfect fashion.
So, a lot of history with it, all in all it's a great little and very stable light source, quick to jump to the highest output from the low when needed, it's very comfortable to hold in the hand, and the blinking modes are very variant and easy to start, bringing a lot of fun.
I bought it in 2014, I got the CW for use inside and around the house where colours are mostly grades of white and other synthetic colours, especially handy when I open appliance for maintenance where I need to observe many coloured wires, so the CW is perfect to distinguishing white, yellow, blue, black, gray, green .. etc.
Mine is always fit with an Olight defuser (4mm), makes perfect beam for indoors, and the D40A is amazingly much better looking when fitted with it. I use this light a lot everyday (literally) to better illuminate so many dark and poorly lit areas for inspections, and it tail stands perfectly for ceiling bounce when needed, and the moonlight is perfect for eye sight adaptation at night times, so again it gets used every single home night in my case. Tried to take it out once belt carry in its pouch, it was not a good experience, it's a bit too heavy and wide for pocket or belt carry IMO, unlike my single cell flashlights.
It has so many imperfections from the first day I opened it out of it's package, I'll try to list what I can remember:
1. Ramps up in reverse, but you get used to that quickly, and was not a big deal for me at all.
2. By nature, the XM-L2 U2 has that pale brass tint around the white hotspot, but in my case the Olight defuser eliminate it completely into a beautifully even and pure white cloud of wide beam.
3. The highest mode 980 lm looks almost the same as the second high 550 lm, the closest I've experienced, and both of them heats the whole light very quickly, as it is often the case in small size flashlights.
4. The battery tube from the start screws and closes-in in a different position every time I open and re close it, it's a real mystery, the threads keeps screwing deeper and deeper every time especially when freshly lubed, and sometimes they stops a lot sooner, so I opened the head plate in the first week and got inside where the driver is located, checked where it's fixed to the head mass and everything was normal, I found nothing there, so the problem remained, I just stopped opening the battery tube unless I need to recharge or change the batteries.
5. The thin plastic buttons cover wore out and the two round buttons were shaved off leaving the under rubber that covers the electronic buttons exposed, but they look perfectly fine, only have to keep them away from water, although I think they can even withstand that the way they were chipped out in perfect fashion.
So, a lot of history with it, all in all it's a great little and very stable light source, quick to jump to the highest output from the low when needed, it's very comfortable to hold in the hand, and the blinking modes are very variant and easy to start, bringing a lot of fun.
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