I'm posting this in hopes of helping a potential buyer of this light. Pictures would make it so much easier, but I no longer have the older ex11.2.
Brief history: Bought a new ex11.2 this past Saturday. Played with it for 2 days great stuff. Sunday I went to grab it for a night walk and proceeded to turn it on as normal, but it went into strobe mode for about 3 seconds then cut off. hmm. All the sudden the light started getting hot, not warm, but nothing was on or so I thought. I immediately opened it and took the Surefire CR123 out and bam! I was hit with the glorious smell of fried electronics. Honestly I thought it was the battery being an LED novice, but it was not as the battery was fine and worked in other lights.
I brought it up to goinggear this morning to explain what happened. After explaining my issue they brought another one out for me for an even swap. I had to take the clip off (optional accessory) the fried one and put it on the new one.
Upon closer inspection comparing it with my fried ex11.2 we noticed some interesting disparities. My broken ex11.2 had a "v.2" clearly marked on the opposite side of the normal markings in a different font and size. Kind of like someone just printed it after-the-fact.
On the newer ex11.2 v.2 the markings read "Smart PD EX11 v.2 R5" where the broken one read "Smart PD EX11 R5" with the above mentioned "v.2" marked on the opposite side. This newer one also has a tritium slot on the piston switch the older one does not. The piston switch is also much shorter in distance traveled vs the older ex11.2. The newer one also has a much purer white tint vs the blue/purple in the older one.
So what we are thinking is that Nitecore possibly has 2 version 2's floating around. Version 2 of version 2 (one with the correct markings and tritium slot) and version 1 of version 2 (with the after-the-fact applied "v.2" marking). Confusing I know. Maybe this will help someone deciding to get one of these.
Brief history: Bought a new ex11.2 this past Saturday. Played with it for 2 days great stuff. Sunday I went to grab it for a night walk and proceeded to turn it on as normal, but it went into strobe mode for about 3 seconds then cut off. hmm. All the sudden the light started getting hot, not warm, but nothing was on or so I thought. I immediately opened it and took the Surefire CR123 out and bam! I was hit with the glorious smell of fried electronics. Honestly I thought it was the battery being an LED novice, but it was not as the battery was fine and worked in other lights.
I brought it up to goinggear this morning to explain what happened. After explaining my issue they brought another one out for me for an even swap. I had to take the clip off (optional accessory) the fried one and put it on the new one.
Upon closer inspection comparing it with my fried ex11.2 we noticed some interesting disparities. My broken ex11.2 had a "v.2" clearly marked on the opposite side of the normal markings in a different font and size. Kind of like someone just printed it after-the-fact.
On the newer ex11.2 v.2 the markings read "Smart PD EX11 v.2 R5" where the broken one read "Smart PD EX11 R5" with the above mentioned "v.2" marked on the opposite side. This newer one also has a tritium slot on the piston switch the older one does not. The piston switch is also much shorter in distance traveled vs the older ex11.2. The newer one also has a much purer white tint vs the blue/purple in the older one.
So what we are thinking is that Nitecore possibly has 2 version 2's floating around. Version 2 of version 2 (one with the correct markings and tritium slot) and version 1 of version 2 (with the after-the-fact applied "v.2" marking). Confusing I know. Maybe this will help someone deciding to get one of these.
