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EspionageStudio
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Jan 26, 2019
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To date I have had 3 variations of this light (both in Ti) and I like this brass one quite a bit. I do however wish the lower mode was more of a sub-lumen "moonlight" mode but overall this is a great light. I absolutely love the feel of the button and the ease of which it can be turned on and off. I have never had an accidental activation as I've heard others complain of buy I do not carry it in a pocket with any other items that might inadvertently hit the button. After owning a limited run titanium Lumintop CPF special edition from a few years ago, I purchased both the blue Ti version and this brass version here on Massdrop in Jan 2019. I think the clips are cheap and with they wouldn't come pre-installed so they would not scratch the light when removed. I would like the option to install the cheap shitty clip if I chose to do so. One note on durability. I accidentally installed a white Sanyo Eneloop backwards intot the blue Ti version of the light and say it down for a couple minutes. I started smelling something burn and picked it up and it was HOT! I quickly pulled out the battery and cooled everynitng down. The spring in the tail had gotten so hot that it deformed and lost it's shape to the point where the battery would just slide around inside the light. I pulled on the spring to bend it back outwards and after that the light worked! Revers polarity protection is most likely not easy to do in such a small light but I'm glad I didn't kill my brand new $35 light on the first day. Comparatively the brass has a better tint even though they are both Nichia. I suppose that is just the tint lottery at work here. Great light for the price, if I had to choose between this brass and the Ti version, and could only buy one of them I think I would go with the brass one. With the brassI like that I have the option to take the head off and swap batteries, with the Ti one it only comes apart at the tail switch. I have used both AAA Eneloops white cells and black Eneloop Pro batteries in these lights. I just did a run test on high between the blue Ti version and the brass. The brass beat out the Ti for some reason but only by a few minutes and on high they did run for the full claimed half hour although it was noticeably dimmer at the end. I'm unsure if it is damaging to the light to run on high unattended but they do get fairly hot after about 5-10 minutes. Thank you massdrop, solid value for these.
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