Surefire G2L on 17670??

[dealgrabber2002]

1) Can G2L run on 17670? I was told by AW's that its possible, can anyone confirm?

2) What the hell is "moon" mode? Is it "hopefully when u are out of battery, the moon will be ur only light mode?"

Please clarify for me, greatly appreciately. Thank you.

-E

 

[Willabbott]

Mine lights up with a 17670, it's not as bright as the CR123's, at least as near as my eyes can tell, it appears to be dimmer (don't have 2 so can't do a side by side)

Never heard of "moon" mode, where did you see that?

EDIT: I did a search, and saw an old thread where it was mentioned... I'm guessing by the context of the subject, they are referring to when the LED Drops out of regulation, or even lower, at minimal light levels, say the 1lumen output level... in other words, using every bit of energy you can pull out of the batteries, until the LED just won't fire up.

 

[dealgrabber2002]

thank you william, really appreciate the info.

have a happy holiday!

-E

 

[kavvika]

Shame that it's not regulated on a 3.7v rechargeable cell. I guess it goes to show how much Surefire doesn't like rechargeables? You could go with DX drop-in #1343; I have two and they're regulated for around 2.5 hours on a 17670. I believe there is a gap when installed in a 6P, though, but there's none when installed in a Maxfire LX. Or get two RCR123A's if you want to keep the G2 body, or use 2 17500's in a G3 body.

 

[Sgt. LED]

Works fine on mine!

 

[divine]

G2L runs good on two 3.6 volt RCR123's. The specs from surefire says it will run on up to 9 volts, so two 4.2 volt batteries should be fine.

 

[djblank87]

Works fine on mine!

Sgt. LED are you running 2 AW RCR123's threw your G2L or 6PL? If so have you encountered any problems?

 

[Sgt. LED]

I've gone with 2 Rcr123's and tried 1 Pila 17650. I've also gone with 3 primary! P60L now lives in light on my sig line. It can take it just fine. It doesn't put out any more light at 9v, just runs longer. I won't test above 9v however. Leave the Rcr123's off charger for awhile to settle down before using just to be sure.

 

[djblank87]

Sweet thanks for the information Sgt.LED. I tried it earlier this morning for about five minutes and it worked five but I was very apprehensive to let it run longer.

Well since I have a few G2L's and two 6PL's sitting around here I guess it wont hurt to do a run test and see if it can run for a long period of time.

I will do a layman's runtime test tonight at work.