NEW Product Announcement - Nitecore HA20 300 Lumen LED Headlamp

Re: NEW Product Announcement - Nitecore HA20 1000 Lumen LED Headlamp

Just a heads up, the title says 1000 lumens.

Re: NEW Product Announcement - Nitecore HA20 1000 Lumen LED Headlamp

Typo. Fixed. Thanks for noticing.

eraursls1984 said:

Just a heads up, the title says 1000 lumens.

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Re: NEW Product Announcement - Nitecore HA20 1000 Lumen LED Headlamp

NitecoreStore, just a quick question as I have one of these in the mail:

Is this light able to run on 14500's, or is it strictly AA?

Just curious as it's not specified anywhere on the internet that I've found. Very similar to the EA81 and EA41, I didn't realize they were AA only until I read the manuals.

With the increasing popularity of lithium cells at large, with the vape community even more so than us seemingly being one of the main funnels toward their use, I can imagine someone thinking that they're going to give their light a boost without reading the manual, and using 14500's where only AAs are meant to be. Improved explicit exclusions may need to be required in the future when a product isn't able to handle 3.7v cells.

That said...do you know what would happen is some sophomoric genius were to put 14500's into either the EA41, the EA81, the new EC45S, or possibly the HA20?

Would the light just burn up? Would it lead to a cell venting failure? Would it work, but just damage the device over time? I really feel like I should know this, but as I've never directly tried it, I'm only able to hypothesize at this point, and I figure your engineers know due to product safety testing or what not.

Thanks for the info, and I'm looking forward to the new light!