Gman
Enlightened
I've had two of these for a few days and thought I'd offer up some comments. They come in blister packs and were gifts but I couldn't resist opening one and playing with it.
I'm not much of a reviewer so I'll stick to my basic observations. I'm sure many of you will post a more comprehensive reveiw in the future.
Seems well made. Black, non adjustable focus, nice white beam. The knurling is very mild. The beam has not much spill and mine has somewhat of a square hot spot but it isn't very noticable. All in all a nice beam. The bezel contains the optics, I unscrewed it but was unable to remove them.
The reflector stays in the light body but can be unscrewed. Running the light without it (but bezel and optics installed) seems to make very little difference in beam quality. However, running the light without the optics (bezel removed) makes for a nice wide flood with only a hint of a hot spot. With no relector and no optics it's pure flood with no hotspot. If the optics could be removed and the bezel installed it would make a nice flood for task work.
The reflector holds the module in the body and with it removed a good shake will dump the circuit board and batteries out, exposing all the works. There are seveal surface mount devices and a other components on the PCB which is not potted or sealed other than typical conformal coating found on most PCBs. It looks delicate and the only heatsinking is a small metal plate under the plastic disc the LED is mounted on. Both the bezel and switch are O ring sealed.
I'm doing a run time test now and after 15 minutes the light becomes only mildy warm to the touch. The switch has a positive feel and is either monentary on click on. The light comes with a holster and pen-like clip on it's body. The light is slightly longer than a AA minimag but the same diameter. All things said I think it's a nice little light with a decent beam. I think it'll do well and puts the minimag to shame. Questions?
I'm not much of a reviewer so I'll stick to my basic observations. I'm sure many of you will post a more comprehensive reveiw in the future.
Seems well made. Black, non adjustable focus, nice white beam. The knurling is very mild. The beam has not much spill and mine has somewhat of a square hot spot but it isn't very noticable. All in all a nice beam. The bezel contains the optics, I unscrewed it but was unable to remove them.
The reflector stays in the light body but can be unscrewed. Running the light without it (but bezel and optics installed) seems to make very little difference in beam quality. However, running the light without the optics (bezel removed) makes for a nice wide flood with only a hint of a hot spot. With no relector and no optics it's pure flood with no hotspot. If the optics could be removed and the bezel installed it would make a nice flood for task work.
The reflector holds the module in the body and with it removed a good shake will dump the circuit board and batteries out, exposing all the works. There are seveal surface mount devices and a other components on the PCB which is not potted or sealed other than typical conformal coating found on most PCBs. It looks delicate and the only heatsinking is a small metal plate under the plastic disc the LED is mounted on. Both the bezel and switch are O ring sealed.
I'm doing a run time test now and after 15 minutes the light becomes only mildy warm to the touch. The switch has a positive feel and is either monentary on click on. The light comes with a holster and pen-like clip on it's body. The light is slightly longer than a AA minimag but the same diameter. All things said I think it's a nice little light with a decent beam. I think it'll do well and puts the minimag to shame. Questions?
