richpalm
Banned
Took a trip to Wally World today, of course I check the flashlight section right away. First thing I saw was this:
Hmmm... small, Cree, textured and smooth reflector might make nice beam! For the $20 I brought 'er home. Had to have something to play with! Here.
Aww it's just dog hair on the plastic lens... LED reflection is weird though...
The front screws off as an assembly. The good news is that the emitter guts are mounted on a nice fat zinc heatsink: :thumbsup:
Here's another with fill flash so you can see details better:
Now, the not so good is that when you look down into the shell (below) you'll see the three contacts, here they are:
You see, the square dinkuse with the springs in the head gets lined up with the arrow tab which engages in the shell, keeping the floating battery plate from spinning around when you're tightening the head down. The aforementioned contacts make contact with the pill which does spin since it's solidly mounted to the heatsink, of course. My concern is the foil on the pill getting worn away or being intermittent over time.
I tried it on the white wall (too close) and said, "awww... this is crap." Big hole in the hotspot. I had it too close! I'm not set up for beamshots but I can tell you the hotspot is smooth, intense and very, very tight. Across the yard ~100ft. it was only 4-5" in diameter. Sidespill is useful-I won't break my neck tryin' to see-but this is a thrower and a good one.
For a small light it laid a nice bright spot on houses a few hundred feet away. Huge corona with no artifacts outside. Very white, bluish beam. Since I'm not up on new LED's yet maybe someone can chime in and let me know which emitter it is.
Build quality is actually good for plastic and it feels solid in my hand-plastic all around is very thick. I like the orange. I would like to see some rubber inserts in the grip though for comfort. Looks incomplete to me.
Runs on 4 C cells with NO battery rattle at all with a shake test.
The rubber booted trigger switch binded-I fixed this by slightly loosening the screws on the plate that holds the switch guts in. Order is On-Hi, then low, and off. That's it.
*****
Any thoughts and comments are welcome! First time I wrote up something like this so lemme know what you think! For the cheap price give it a go!
Rich
Hmmm... small, Cree, textured and smooth reflector might make nice beam! For the $20 I brought 'er home. Had to have something to play with! Here.
Aww it's just dog hair on the plastic lens... LED reflection is weird though...
The front screws off as an assembly. The good news is that the emitter guts are mounted on a nice fat zinc heatsink: :thumbsup:
Here's another with fill flash so you can see details better:
Now, the not so good is that when you look down into the shell (below) you'll see the three contacts, here they are:
You see, the square dinkuse with the springs in the head gets lined up with the arrow tab which engages in the shell, keeping the floating battery plate from spinning around when you're tightening the head down. The aforementioned contacts make contact with the pill which does spin since it's solidly mounted to the heatsink, of course. My concern is the foil on the pill getting worn away or being intermittent over time.
I tried it on the white wall (too close) and said, "awww... this is crap." Big hole in the hotspot. I had it too close! I'm not set up for beamshots but I can tell you the hotspot is smooth, intense and very, very tight. Across the yard ~100ft. it was only 4-5" in diameter. Sidespill is useful-I won't break my neck tryin' to see-but this is a thrower and a good one.
For a small light it laid a nice bright spot on houses a few hundred feet away. Huge corona with no artifacts outside. Very white, bluish beam. Since I'm not up on new LED's yet maybe someone can chime in and let me know which emitter it is.
Build quality is actually good for plastic and it feels solid in my hand-plastic all around is very thick. I like the orange. I would like to see some rubber inserts in the grip though for comfort. Looks incomplete to me.
Runs on 4 C cells with NO battery rattle at all with a shake test.
The rubber booted trigger switch binded-I fixed this by slightly loosening the screws on the plate that holds the switch guts in. Order is On-Hi, then low, and off. That's it.
*****
Any thoughts and comments are welcome! First time I wrote up something like this so lemme know what you think! For the cheap price give it a go!
Rich
