Maratac AAA Q5 (Part 2)

[LumenHound]

I'm familiar with anti reflective coatings.
I've just recently culled my astronomy gear back to only 4 pairs of binoculars, 5 advanced level telescopes, and 2 dozen or so eyepieces.
It's a disease. :tinfoil:

I wonder how many uncoated lenses inadvertently made it into the shipments CC received?

 

[Patriot]

You're a bigger optic fanatic than I am then! Mine are terrestrial, waterproof sport optics like Swarovski, Zeiss and Nikon stuff mostly and a Leica APO scope. Nothing are as serious as yours though. In any case, I trust your judgment but can't guess why your examples wouldn't be coated, especially since it sounds like you have two units to compare?


P.S. You need to make yourself a nice telescope avatar. 🙂

 

[slipe]

I'm familiar with anti reflective coatings.
I've just recently culled my astronomy gear back to only 4 pairs of binoculars, 5 advanced level telescopes, and 2 dozen or so eyepieces.
It's a disease. :tinfoil:

I wonder how many uncoated lenses inadvertently made it into the shipments CC received?

I have one of each and the lenses aren't coated.

The emitters are mounted on four small blue pieces of something. You can get reflections from those at many angles. But I get no color from the lenses or anything that looks like a coating reflecting light from them.

 

[d1337]

+1 yes, l/m/h sequence. During a Maracta aaa light video the guy from Countycomm was saying that the low is good for situations such as in a movie theater. I was thinking yeah only after you blind and **** off other people with the medium setting first.

I get up early in the moring to go to work when it's still dark. I don't bother to turn on the light in the room. I just use the Maratac to see my way around. The low setting is just right for me. Have to turn off the medium everytime though.

an AA version of light will be well received also.

I put the lens of the light against the palm of my hand and then twist the light on, off and on again. that puts the light in low mode when I'm trying to be discrete.

 

[jabe1]

My natural doesn't appear to have a coated lens either.

 

[Flying Turtle]

I see no coating on my black one. either. Right now I'm fighting the demons that keep telling me to order one in stainless steel.

Geoff

 

[Nake]

All coatings are not as easy to see as the UCL from flashlightlens. I can't see the coating on a Fenix, but it's there.

 

[jabe1]

I see no coating on my black one. either. Right now I'm fighting the demons that keep telling me to order one in stainless steel.

Geoff

LOL, I've been doing the same for 2 days!!

 

[richardcpf]

LOL, I've been doing the same for 2 days!!

Then this is serious, I think you should buy it. $28 won't make you poor.

Just look at it... bead blasted SS!

 

[jabe1]

Then this is serious, I think you should buy it. $28 won't make you poor.

Just look at it... bead blasted SS!

Ordered it. 😛

 

[KDOG3]

I just got the iTP "upgrade" version in the mail. It has a tighter hotspot (more throw) than my Nat Maratac. Don't know if its the reflector or what. I still like the Maratac looks and knurling better. I swapped heads but it doesn't look right. I may have to trade bodies with my wifes black Maratac AAA thats on her keychain tonite when she gets home. Tint is a little better on the Maratac too. I wish I could extract the light engines and reflectors from both and swap them....

 

[flatline]

What reasoning could possibly lead the government to stockpile AAA batteries and flashlights?

 

[Flying Turtle]

What reasoning could possibly lead the government to stockpile AAA batteries and flashlights?

I wondered the same. Maybe there's a flashaholic in Washington.

Geoff

 

[richardcpf]

What reasoning could possibly lead the government to stockpile AAA batteries and flashlights?

They did this for us

 

[Patriot]

What reasoning could possibly lead the government to stockpile AAA batteries and flashlights?

I'm not sure either since the agency wasn't disclosed to me. I wasn't overly inquisitive about it since I had the feeling it would have been shared with me had he been allowed to. I got the impression that the Maratac was ordered by CC in massive numbers though. Once again, he wouldn't share the number and I didn't press for info. Nick was already pretty gracious about their plans with the light and informed me about the SS for testing 3 weeks before it was on their website so that I could do some testing with it. All this said, they probably stock pile a lot of things flatline so the notion isn't all that unusual to begin with.

 

[StandardBattery]

Sorry, I have not been able to keep up with this thread, but I just tested my iTP "Enhanced" Version. Not ideal conditions I'll have to do more this evening.

• It has the same polished reflector as the Black Maratac (different from their 'Standard' version).
• All the levels on mine are just a little higher than my Maratac, but they are so close it could be LED variation.
• The tint on the iTP is just a "little" cooler, but it's actually very nice, most people would really like it.
• Threads seem looser than my Maratacs
• Maratac may be using a slight larger o-ring.
• The Pill does not have the notches on the side to unscrew it. You'll have to use the holes in the PCB, BUT the PCB is shaped with little tabs the fit into cutouts on the pill, so if it is not sealed too tight you won't damage the components or PCB by using the PCB holes to unscrew it. I was able to unscrew mine with very little effort using standard snap-ring pliers.

Looks like we have some really good lights and really good mod hosts.

 

[KDOG3]

Man I just tried to unscrew mine and it wouldn't budge. Hmmm I'll have to try again...

 

[StandardBattery]

Man I just tried to unscrew mine and it wouldn't budge. Hmmm I'll have to try again...

Remember the trick posted a few pages back. Slightly tightening first often seems to break the seal, then it's easy to back it out.

 

[Dan FO]

Before a large number of people start posting for warm tints and low-med-high IU in order to share their preference with the CC staff readers, I've already sent an email to Nick at CC with links from the IU poll posted a week or two ago. My email also address the issue of centered LEDs and the info has been passed on to ITP. This doesn't necessarily mean that the IU is going to change since CC's largest customer by far is government contracts. If CC can convince the buyer that the best first stage is low, then we might have a chance of seeing it happen. It looks like the maratac AAA light is here to stay though since word is that certain government oganizations are stockpiling AAA batteries in incredible quantities as well as AAA lights.

Regarding tint, there's very little chance of this changing since reports back to them have been so positive about the current tint. You'd have to prove that a substantial number of people wanted warmer tints for them to even consider it. A spread out thread isn't the best analog for determining these types of results so please start a poll thread about tint if you'd like. That way we'll keep this thread as informational sharing instead of repetitive wishlisting. :thumbsup:

The government does not care about tint, the people using the government lights do not care about tint .......... to them they are just free lights. Once it gets an NSN they have made the big time. Once an NSN has been assigned no changes can be made because it would be out of contract specs.

 

[Patriot]

The government does not care about tint, the people using the government lights do not care about tint .......... to them they are just free lights. Once it gets an NSN they have made the big time. Once an NSN has been assigned no changes can be made because it would be out of contract specs.

In that case all you have to do is convince CC they should invest their time switching LED's for a few dozen CPFers and you're all set to go Dan. 😉