WOW Sunshine at night!!!

[brightnorm]

Originally posted by ksbman:
I just put a UCL lens in my TigerLight tonight at work. While out on the ramp working I went to put the light in the ring holder on my belt and missed. The light fell about 3 feet to the concrete and shattered the lens. I bought 2 lenses; hopefully the second will last longer.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I find this a little disquieting. I wonder if the boroflote lens (which I believe is the approximate equal of Pyrex) is more resistant to physical shock in addition to thermal shock.

Brightnorm

 

[laynlow]

I have not seen a 55mm borofloat lens. The only listed for a TL are the UCL. I installed my UCL yesterday. I'm not going to pretend I can tell a difference in the light transmission when shining the light on objects at ground level, but if I point the light in the air I can now see the spill light V in addition to the sharp spot beam. Overall I like it.

 

[SilverFox]

OK, time for an update.

Three full charge/discharge cycles later, the run time is up to 65 minutes. It's getting better.

I replaced the plastic lense with the UCL and noticed quite a difference - after two full runs the plastic lense was starting to melt in the middle, the glass one isn't.

Time to take a quick run to the store to stock up on some sunblock...

Tom

 

[txwest]

Tom,
If it ever gets to the point you're melting the glass lens, you'll need more than sunblock. :>) TX