Chad Varnadore
Newly Enlightened
I was testing the light more last night seeing if it would actually get hot in standard high mode. It was still only warm after about 25 minutes, which was when I had to cut the test short as the orange light had been blinking for at least 10 minutes indicating low battery. At first I thought it was indicating warmth, but it didn't feel hot enough to justify orange. I then remembered that flashing orange had multiple purposes, both as a heat indicator and a battery indicator. Sure enough it couldn't do turbo anymore, indicating the battery must be getting weak. According to the literature, orange means less than 25% battery remaining, where red means less than 10%. I was a little surprised that while orange the light had become virtually useless already, as it apparently didn't have the power to cycle anything brighter than twilight modes. I was able to double click into standard a couple times, but couldn't cycle the modes once there. It was fine after charging overnight. Still, I'm thinking that combining heat indication and low battery indication the way they have wasn't the best idea. Aside from being easy to misdiagnose what it means, I'd suspect it might proove too complicated for the electronics over time.
More charging criticism: I charged it again last night, this time using a wall outlet with an AC to USB converter plugged in. It had finally turned green after about 8 hours. But as soon as I touched it (literally, my finger had just slightly made contact) it went red again for anther 2.5 hours, turned green, then red again as soon as I picked it up, then, after about a minute of holding it, it finally went green again and stayed green no matter what angle I held it at. Crazy right? So, unconvinced it was fully charged, I put the battery in the Eastshine charger, which showed it still had about 1/4-1/5 of the way to go!?! It took another 5-10 minutes at 1000mah on the Eastshine to finish charging. No point in even using the built in charging if the Eastshine is the more accurate of the two.
More charging criticism: I charged it again last night, this time using a wall outlet with an AC to USB converter plugged in. It had finally turned green after about 8 hours. But as soon as I touched it (literally, my finger had just slightly made contact) it went red again for anther 2.5 hours, turned green, then red again as soon as I picked it up, then, after about a minute of holding it, it finally went green again and stayed green no matter what angle I held it at. Crazy right? So, unconvinced it was fully charged, I put the battery in the Eastshine charger, which showed it still had about 1/4-1/5 of the way to go!?! It took another 5-10 minutes at 1000mah on the Eastshine to finish charging. No point in even using the built in charging if the Eastshine is the more accurate of the two.
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