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Posted: 9/6/2011 8:48:14 PM EDT
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Anybody have any experience with this brand? I was looking for another duty light (never can have enough lights) and came across this brand. Specs seem good, but I've always been a Surefire guy and never heard of these.
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Skip it. For less money you can get a 4sevens regular model Quark 2xAA and get a tactical switch at the same time. Tight bezel click once for turbo over 200 lumens. It will softpress between Turbo and strobe in this position. Loosen bezel and you can select from moonlight mode up to around 100 lumens in 4 levels. Then an additional two signal strobe modes for a total of 6 modes loosened. Nimh is safer chemistry and rechargeable. I have 1xAA, 2xAA, and 18650 body that is no longer available.
Another fine option is to buy a bored Surefire host and put a Malkoff dropin in it. Haven't gotten one yet but after some experimentation and much use my Z2 has a drop in that runs 4.2 volt 17670 for one hour then over another hour or two declining and dropin works reliably. I find most of my cheap dropins work better with Solarforce hosts. Had to play around to get one to work 100% in Surefire. Malkoff is made to fit perfectly in Surfire hosts. More expensive option is bored Overready host and drop in. Around 260-270 bucks for a light that will put out 1100 lumens with their 3 led drop in. For a light that will run all night and can search out into the pastures hundreds of yards away. Get a 2C Mag and install a Malkoff 2C Mag drop in. Got one. It's on it's second set of C cells in a year and the first ones just got somewhat dim. This is a great light for storm emergency lights out for days. Another option for long term running google Anglelux. Fulton angle head army flashlight converted to run the latest most efficient LED on 2 D cells. |
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IMO the Inforce setup is pretty slick. They are still using a TIR lens and all of the models throw a nice beam with a good hot spot and enough spill to light up the periphery. The bodies are all composite and come in Black or Tan. Some models have white,red,green,blue or IR nav lights.
They are all between 200 and 300 lumens (real) depending on which model you are looking at. All of them can be used in Inforce's mount and can have a multifunction tail switch added if you like. If you are a bike or traffic guy; they have a LE model that has red and blue LEDs. The red and blue can be used independently for low light nav or the light can be set up for a Red/Blue/White strobe. Certainly not a tac light; but, great for getting attention when you're standing in traffic. The only draw back to them that I have found is the tail switch requires a good bit of force to operate it. If you are painting a room with light, your thumb will get sore. But the up side to that is you have to intentionally want to activate the light. 18650s are a no go and Inforce does not recommend the use of rechargeables in any of their lights. Inforce is a product of Emissive Energy and until last year they made the Inova brand as well. Emissive Energy sold Inova to Nite-Ize to concentrate on just the Inforce line. The military is buying them up by the case full due to the ability to mount the light on a rifle or use it as a hand light. Inforce just rolled out an awesome weapon light with white or IR nav lights; but, they are restricting it MIL and LE for now. So it appears they are growing and their products are holding up over the long haul. |
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I bought an inforce color from them to play with. Great light, but it requires a PHD in computer science to run properly. With 4 color modes, 3 brightness modes, and a strobe, I know I'm gonna end up with it on high white when i need low red. It came with a weapon light QD mount and tailswitch, which it makes it the worst weapon light ever. Why do I need low strobing green on my weapon?
I sold that POS . I need lights that won't get me killed or screw with my natural night vision if I don't properly utilize the rubics cube that is its tail switch. I'd be interested in playing with the WML, see how it stacks up to the SF vampires. |
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