I've been using two flashlight styles as a Police Officer for a few years now. It seems like I always have a single 18650 M6 style light on the front of my belt, and then a 3 or 4 18650 cell coke can style light in the cup holder of my vehicle and in my back pocket when I exit.
I've been carrying an Eagle Tac MX 25L3 Compact for probably a year or two now. I've had it warrantied at least once through lightjunction.com, and it seems like every time I drop it on the concrete, one of the wires breaks loose from its soldering on the circuit board of the light.
I've re-soldered wires back to the circuit board at least a half dozen times now, but I noticed this week that only 4 of the 6 led's are illuminating. i found the loose wires and tried to solder them back to the board, but the actual space on the board where you solder wires came off, so basically the light's permanently reduced to 40% performance.
There's newer and better stuff out there, so I figured that I'd ask. It looks like the highest performance coke can style light out there is the Imalent DT70, but the damn thing is $250.00. Granted I would be going from 3,500 lumens to 16,000 lumens.
Is this the way to go or is there something bigger and better out there?
Anybody want this eagletac? Anybody capable to fixing it and donating it to another public safety type of person?
I've been carrying an Eagle Tac MX 25L3 Compact for probably a year or two now. I've had it warrantied at least once through lightjunction.com, and it seems like every time I drop it on the concrete, one of the wires breaks loose from its soldering on the circuit board of the light.
I've re-soldered wires back to the circuit board at least a half dozen times now, but I noticed this week that only 4 of the 6 led's are illuminating. i found the loose wires and tried to solder them back to the board, but the actual space on the board where you solder wires came off, so basically the light's permanently reduced to 40% performance.
There's newer and better stuff out there, so I figured that I'd ask. It looks like the highest performance coke can style light out there is the Imalent DT70, but the damn thing is $250.00. Granted I would be going from 3,500 lumens to 16,000 lumens.
Is this the way to go or is there something bigger and better out there?
Anybody want this eagletac? Anybody capable to fixing it and donating it to another public safety type of person?