Thanks for the review! Nice work. Any chance you could through up a few pictures of the new QTC. I am curious about how they made the improvements.
Thanks,
eala
As you wish! I cannot get the Gen1 QTC pill out of my lug body Eiger, so the Gen1 pill from my Logan will have to do.
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The end that touches the body appears the same in both Gen1 and Gen2
The end that touches the battery, however, is quite different.
The Gen1 Logan pill came with a foam ring to prevent battery rattle - the Gen2 Eiger did not. If we remove the foam ring, we can see that the "ledge" it sat on is completely gone
Top: Gen1 Logan
Bottom: Gen2 Eiger
They've machined a groove into the side of the Delrin pill and slipped a "retaining ring" around it
If I had to hazard some wild guesses as to what has been improved here:
- the QTC material is now round, and the "pocket" now holds it snugly
- the battery terminal is now smaller, which should help focus the compression straight down onto the QTC pill and prevent wobble from side-to-side
- the battery terminal has a small nub on it, which (I believe) would help the battery pivot as the head is twisted down onto it
- the battery terminal is now hexagonal, which "locks" it into place and prevents the rotating battery from also rotating the terminal & QTC
- the retaining ring has a gap which is probably to allow for contraction as you squish it into the body, forming a friction fit. It works ok on mine but I wouldn't say it works better than the old design - a hard shake still sends the pill shooting from the light
Overall though, the changes seem very well thought out and executed. Simple things like a smaller hexagonal battery terminal and a tighter QTC pocket should vastly improve in the usability - and they do.