narmattaru
Enlightened
M3 was sent me as a review example from Gearbest. Product page is here
i`d like to apologise for mistakes in advance, i have no chance to practise written English besides reviewing flashlights here. Или ты хочешь чтобы я писал тут по-русски, tovarish?
The sell cold and neutral white variants, each of them in form of single or full-pack (with battery and charger)
though On the road is a newbe at flashlight market, but it seems to be that it managed to release some definetely decent models right from the start.
the one i reivew is obviously inspired by Olight S10.
Stated characteristics:
Package is nice. Not motley, eco-style. Inside are : light itself, charger, soft case, lanyard,battery and 2 o-rings.
M3 looks good. Tiny and well-buit, solid. the only thing which visually doesnt fit is white plastic button. Metal one will look better. But once it works as indicator, there is no other choice without unreasonable increasing price.
Gerbest calls color - "titanium grey". Quite unusual , but attractive color.
A lot of grease.
There is no spring from driver side, which is caused by small size of M3. I suppose engineers could make it liittle bit larger to house at least 1-2 coils of spring.
Tail has magnet within.
Though M3 is so small, grip is good and convenient.
Waterproof, cheers!
I made a reall effort to unscrew bezel. unsuccesfully, just scratched it hardly. Rerlector is OP, about 1 cm deep.
М3 supports 16340 and R\CR123.
I inspected 16340 from package with Opus charger and in discharge-refresh mode i got impressive value - 754mah.
But charger makes the score even, coz it charges `till unacceptable 4.31v.
UI.
reasonable and convinient.
long click - on\off to prevent accidental activation.
1 click from in "on"— brightnesses swithcing.
2 clicks from any stare - instant turbo
3 clicks from any stare - instant Srobe, then beacon then SOS
I got used to this UI almost in coiple of minutes.
How it works.
i think that brightness level are designed reasonable, though i`d like to see something like 0.5-0.8 lum.
Now interesting part. Stated 600-900 —lumens is good,yes. But there is no wonders in this market. Once it`s brighter - it gets hottter. Here i photo i measured. In middle modes there is also body temperature, not only head. In first 2 mode body and head are almost the same. In turbo there is no difference because you cannon handle M3 barehand anyway.
So in reality you can use only low, mid, high for a long time. Max and Turbo are just for WOW! or to use in 10-30 secs, to take a look what`s going on in distance further then 15-20 meters. Handle M3 longer and you will smell BBQ without any grill near -).
This is what i measured.
Brightness was measured at another review here at CPF.
Ultra low: 2.3 lumens, low: 114 lumens, med: 224 lumens, hi: 456 lumens, turbo: 658 lumens
I used led calculator, and got:
Ultra low: out of range, low: 120, med: 261 lumens, hi: 516 lumens, turbo: 774 lumens
I`m ready to assume that cold white variant may reach something slighly below stated 900 lumens.
There is mode memory, just hold brightness for >3 sec.
I havent` found any PWM shimmering.
Light is well stabilised, M3 keeps brigtness till the very end, then it just disappeared (after 1-2 minutes of button blinking)
I checked battery after lights went offf. There remained 2,96v, good. M3 does`t drain battery to the very bottom.
It takes about 3 minutes for light to fell to max level from turbo. That makes no change to user, `cause M3 body gets hot after 30-40 seconds.
Constant brightness and temperature are good for distance of 15-20 meters. For constant work at more distant range there are a lot of other bigger lights run with 1865-26650.
15-20 meters range example
about 50meters
Conclusion.
one of very 1st products from On the road is good. charger with it`s 4.31v is not cool, but as we are discussing flashlight, not chargers, it can be scipped.
For price\quality\functionality ratio this seems to be really interesting product for those who like 16340 size lights.
now there is a flash-sale for M3 at Gearbest.
i`d like to apologise for mistakes in advance, i have no chance to practise written English besides reviewing flashlights here. Или ты хочешь чтобы я писал тут по-русски, tovarish?
The sell cold and neutral white variants, each of them in form of single or full-pack (with battery and charger)
though On the road is a newbe at flashlight market, but it seems to be that it managed to release some definetely decent models right from the start.
the one i reivew is obviously inspired by Olight S10.
Stated characteristics:
Package is nice. Not motley, eco-style. Inside are : light itself, charger, soft case, lanyard,battery and 2 o-rings.
M3 looks good. Tiny and well-buit, solid. the only thing which visually doesnt fit is white plastic button. Metal one will look better. But once it works as indicator, there is no other choice without unreasonable increasing price.
Gerbest calls color - "titanium grey". Quite unusual , but attractive color.
A lot of grease.
There is no spring from driver side, which is caused by small size of M3. I suppose engineers could make it liittle bit larger to house at least 1-2 coils of spring.
Tail has magnet within.
Though M3 is so small, grip is good and convenient.
Waterproof, cheers!
I made a reall effort to unscrew bezel. unsuccesfully, just scratched it hardly. Rerlector is OP, about 1 cm deep.
М3 supports 16340 and R\CR123.
I inspected 16340 from package with Opus charger and in discharge-refresh mode i got impressive value - 754mah.
But charger makes the score even, coz it charges `till unacceptable 4.31v.
UI.
reasonable and convinient.
long click - on\off to prevent accidental activation.
1 click from in "on"— brightnesses swithcing.
2 clicks from any stare - instant turbo
3 clicks from any stare - instant Srobe, then beacon then SOS
I got used to this UI almost in coiple of minutes.
How it works.
i think that brightness level are designed reasonable, though i`d like to see something like 0.5-0.8 lum.
Now interesting part. Stated 600-900 —lumens is good,yes. But there is no wonders in this market. Once it`s brighter - it gets hottter. Here i photo i measured. In middle modes there is also body temperature, not only head. In first 2 mode body and head are almost the same. In turbo there is no difference because you cannon handle M3 barehand anyway.
So in reality you can use only low, mid, high for a long time. Max and Turbo are just for WOW! or to use in 10-30 secs, to take a look what`s going on in distance further then 15-20 meters. Handle M3 longer and you will smell BBQ without any grill near -).
This is what i measured.
Brightness was measured at another review here at CPF.
Ultra low: 2.3 lumens, low: 114 lumens, med: 224 lumens, hi: 456 lumens, turbo: 658 lumens
I used led calculator, and got:
Ultra low: out of range, low: 120, med: 261 lumens, hi: 516 lumens, turbo: 774 lumens
I`m ready to assume that cold white variant may reach something slighly below stated 900 lumens.
There is mode memory, just hold brightness for >3 sec.
I havent` found any PWM shimmering.
Light is well stabilised, M3 keeps brigtness till the very end, then it just disappeared (after 1-2 minutes of button blinking)
I checked battery after lights went offf. There remained 2,96v, good. M3 does`t drain battery to the very bottom.
It takes about 3 minutes for light to fell to max level from turbo. That makes no change to user, `cause M3 body gets hot after 30-40 seconds.
Constant brightness and temperature are good for distance of 15-20 meters. For constant work at more distant range there are a lot of other bigger lights run with 1865-26650.
15-20 meters range example
about 50meters
Conclusion.
one of very 1st products from On the road is good. charger with it`s 4.31v is not cool, but as we are discussing flashlight, not chargers, it can be scipped.
For price\quality\functionality ratio this seems to be really interesting product for those who like 16340 size lights.
now there is a flash-sale for M3 at Gearbest.
