BLISTERING Hot!!!

Managed to drop my Amilite T5*2 without notice with a RCR123 in it and it managed to light up on max brightness! I picked it up a half hour or so later and blistered my thumb!!!!!!!!!!! YEOUCH!!!!!!!!! No fun turning it off, either!!!!! It wouldn't click off. I had to twist it off/break contact!

Dammit! Serves me right!

Functioning correctly after cool down.

Be careful! It's a jungle out there!

Andy
Burning down the house!

Be carefuil with LED lights left alone on high, the can get quite hot, as you found out.

Be careful next time.

Wow! Thanks for let us know, I just wonder if that extremely hot will damaged the LED itself.

What is the led? Is it SSC P4?

no big deal,
modders know that the heat has to go somewhere
(especially when the light is this small).
If such a light does not get warm it can only
a) run on less than full current, or
b) has very bad heatsinking.

When someone makes fun on comments like "bad heatsinking", one immediately knows he has no clue at all. Does not make sense to react. Better to wait to his tread of the "damaged light", "bad quality", or whatever. Then tell it again - that time will listen.

PS: I dont think there has been any damage. If You dont got burns, temp would have been around 60 deg C.

Gladius01 said:

Wow! Thanks for let us know, I just wonder if that extremely hot will damaged the LED itself.

What is the led? Is it SSC P4?

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Yes, that's the one.

When the RCRs are charged I will post a time to "too hot to handle". So I'll know for future reference how long it's actually continually usable.

Andy

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T5 is a super underrated light,
Some heads'up notes by Doug at FlashlightReviews

http://www.flashlightreviews.com/reviews/amilite_neot5.htm