on 3/22/2010
Involvement:
Expert (understands the inner workings)
- Ownership:
1 week to 1 month
Pros: It's very bright, cool white light.
The build quality and the silver finish look really good.
Did I say, that it's very bright?
Cons: It seems that no manufacturer is able to tighten the screws holding the tail switch and the driver pile!? So if the light is flickering sometimes, jut tighten them with a pair of tweezers.
Other Thoughts: The surface seems to be quite soft. Maybe it's not as scratch resistant as the black anodized one. But it has a nice place in my car and I try not to throw it arround.
Bottomline: As usual, it has two modes too much (strobe ans SOSOS...). But the single mode is too bright to read a map or something. You can get the same in black as well.
on 3/6/2010
Involvement:
General (knows how to use it)
- Ownership:
less than 1 day
Pros: GREAT TORCH, VERRY POWERFULL, NICE BEAM PATTERN MEDIUM-SPIL-THROW- RANGE SO DEFINITVELY NOT AS THROWER, AS THE SAME MODEL WITH XRE Q5,R2. BUT MUCH, MUCH, MORE LIGHT, NICE TRANSISCION FROM HOTSPOT TO SPILL,
NOT HEAVY , IT SEEAMS WELL CONSTRUCTED , NICE TREADS, O RINGS IN THE HEAD, TAIL, AND AT GLASS LENS
Cons: TWO OUT OF TREE AINT BAD ¿¿??
ONE OF THE TREE FLASH LIGHTS CAME DEFECTIVE, I´LL POST A RMA,
THE PROBLEM IS THIS ONE IS SOME-HOW, OVER DIRVEN (ONLY 18650 X 1)
NO MEMORY, ALLWAYS START ON HI, BUT THE DEFECTIVE ONE TURNS RAPIDLY FROM NICE WHITE TO BLUE, IT HAVENT FRY THE LED SO FAR, BECAUSE I SWITCH IT TO MID MODE, IT EVEN TURN WHITE-BLUISH-WHITE, WHEN FLASHING IN S.O.S. MODE AT THE LONG STATES, BY THE WAY THE S.O.S. MODE IS RIGHT: TREE SHORT,TREE LONG, TREE SHORT AND THEN A LONGER PAUSE, I SAY THIS BECAUSE OTHER FLASH LIGHTS SOLD HERE ARE NOT THIS RIGHT WAY.
(-SOSOSOSOSOSOSOSO-OR EVEN -OSOSOSOSOSOSOSOS-)
NO OTHER CON, THE OTHER TWO WORK FINE
Other Thoughts: I BUY IN THE OTHER -DOMAIN- TREE SIMILAR FLASLIGHTS XPG-R5 ULTRAFIRE, 502B 4.2-8.4VOLTS , AND HAVE THE SAME PROBLEN IN ONE, EXACTLY THE SAME 2 GOOD , 1 BAD-OVERDRIVED AT ONLY ONE 18650 BATT.
SO HOW STRANGE IS THIS --TWO OUT OF TREE AINT BAD--
Bottomline: I LIKE THE ONES WORKIN FINE , BUT FOR THE PRICE , I WOULD RATHER ORDER THE SKU 32749 SKYRAY S-R5 Cree XPG-R4 5-Mode 320-Lumen Memory LED Flashlight (1*18650/2*16340) AND WOULD-NOT TRY IT WITH 2*16340