Mine was waiting for me when I got home from work. Here's a quick review:
Construction
-This thing is small, I knew it would be small, it is named Molle light and they have a picture of it in the PALS webbing, but it almost looks like a toy.
-It seems pretty tough. I didn't realize the black body was anodized aluminum. Thought it would be all plastic. That was a nice surprise.
-The clip is VERY secure. The wavy design works, once clipped in it's not slipping out accidentally. The push tabs work well to rotate the clip.
-The compass needle is attracted to the steel clip. To use it you have to take the battery cap off, thus risking loss, debris in the battery compartment, and unnecessarily wearing out threads and o-ring. You can also push the clip off, probably the better alternative, but still maybe too gimmicky.
-The switch is rather hard to push to click on and off. It actually does not click that I can hear or feel. Just stays on when you push hard enough. It does work well as a momentary.
Light
-The beam quality is very good. Uniform with no rings or artifacts that I can see. Fairly tight hot spot with even distribution to sidespill. Good amount of useable light to the sidespill. Overall a good compromise.
-Nice white tint on the cooler side. No color variation around the edges.
-I don't have a meter, but output is similar to primary on my HDS U60XR. About the same as the first level on my LM-301 and a bit brighter than my Princeton Tec Impact XL. Sorry I couldn't be more exact but I would have to say between 25 lumens and the 40 advertised.
Overall, I would have to say that I like the light, especially for its intended purpose of carrying in PALS webbing. I'll carry it around for a while and see how it holds up. I got the light from County Comm so it came with the pouch. Very nice pouch, well built and good positive keeper strap to attach to webbing (doesn't match the color of my Kifaru pack
, guess I can't have everything). The pouch and light were worth the money. It's a neat little setup.
