shipwreck.
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- May 21, 2019
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So I've got an old busted Surefire 6P, which I've posted about here a few times. I've had it since 2005ish and recently decided I wanted a crenelated bezel for it. So I found one online but over the years the head had been beaten so badly it was literally no longer... round? So I had to replace the head just to be able to replace the bezel.
Well jokes on me, it turns out the aftermarket head I got wasn't even made to proper spec so I was barely able to get the lens and bezel in there by foregoing the o ring. But that's beside the point.
The point is that as soon as I got that done*, the lamp went out! And I figured if I was going to replace it might as well switch to LED to extend the battery life and up the output while I'm at it.
That's when the good folk of these forums pointed me toward the Malkoff drop in. Which claims to output something like 400 lumens. Over the surprisingly low 65 lumens of the surefire factory lamp.
Hey that all sounds good to me. Except when I installed it, honestly. I vaguely remember being pretty disappointed.
I mean I remember the stock setup spotlighting a roll-up door from clear across the floor of a pretty big warehouse in pitch black conditions.
But whatever the lumens of the Malkoff is, it doesn't seem to carry very far at all.
Now I'm thinking it just doesn't have the same focus that the surefire makes a selling point of. Which is pretty dumb if it's the case because it's for a surefire light so you'd think it'd go without saying that the exact same general performance is expected plus the extra lumens???
But I don't know. At this point it's dimmer than a household light bulb so obviously the batteries are dead. So I'm hoping I'll replace them and repent my Malkoff blasphemy here because it will be obviously way bright than stock and carry at least as far and be just as focused at range.
But this will be the second set of batteries I've put through it (rarely ever used, but I need it to work when it is!), and I'm pretty sure that's exactly what I said last time and I'm pretty sure nothing changed.
So. Am I doing something wrong here??? Is there any kind of troubleshooting I can do to get the advertised performance out of this thing?
Because I need this light to work y'all.
Every time something's gone wrong I've considered upgrading, and everytime I look there's virtually nothing on the market with a momentary on pressure switch (NO CLICKS!!! 😭😭😭), and nothing that doesn't have a bunch of silly strobe functions that I, frankly, want absolutely nothing to do with.
Well jokes on me, it turns out the aftermarket head I got wasn't even made to proper spec so I was barely able to get the lens and bezel in there by foregoing the o ring. But that's beside the point.
The point is that as soon as I got that done*, the lamp went out! And I figured if I was going to replace it might as well switch to LED to extend the battery life and up the output while I'm at it.
That's when the good folk of these forums pointed me toward the Malkoff drop in. Which claims to output something like 400 lumens. Over the surprisingly low 65 lumens of the surefire factory lamp.
Hey that all sounds good to me. Except when I installed it, honestly. I vaguely remember being pretty disappointed.
I mean I remember the stock setup spotlighting a roll-up door from clear across the floor of a pretty big warehouse in pitch black conditions.
But whatever the lumens of the Malkoff is, it doesn't seem to carry very far at all.
Now I'm thinking it just doesn't have the same focus that the surefire makes a selling point of. Which is pretty dumb if it's the case because it's for a surefire light so you'd think it'd go without saying that the exact same general performance is expected plus the extra lumens???
But I don't know. At this point it's dimmer than a household light bulb so obviously the batteries are dead. So I'm hoping I'll replace them and repent my Malkoff blasphemy here because it will be obviously way bright than stock and carry at least as far and be just as focused at range.
But this will be the second set of batteries I've put through it (rarely ever used, but I need it to work when it is!), and I'm pretty sure that's exactly what I said last time and I'm pretty sure nothing changed.
So. Am I doing something wrong here??? Is there any kind of troubleshooting I can do to get the advertised performance out of this thing?
Because I need this light to work y'all.
Every time something's gone wrong I've considered upgrading, and everytime I look there's virtually nothing on the market with a momentary on pressure switch (NO CLICKS!!! 😭😭😭), and nothing that doesn't have a bunch of silly strobe functions that I, frankly, want absolutely nothing to do with.
