First I would like to say thanks for any help you can provide a newcomer. I did quite a bit of searching but some of this is over my head.
Im shopping for my first multi-battery light and have settled for a DBS SST-50 (It is a 3sm). I'll also be getting the aspherical and R2 pill so I have plenty of light options.
I'd rather sacrifice run time for two RCR123 sized batteries and get the extension tube for 3 of them for more run time. My questions:
1.) are IMR123s good in the 2 config for this? Would 3 be ok as well? Or would TWO protected rcr123s set be better? (Edit: I typo'ed that...sorry!)
2.) when switching to the r2 pill will I need to change batteries to avoid a *poof* LED or will the IMR's just have a huge increase in run time.
(I'm just running 2 IMR 123/16340's and taking the run-time hit. This is working great for the R2/Asph head too. I did get the 3-batt tube instead of the 18650 tube and it makes it a bit longer but I'm with Henk on that one...I prefer it being shorter. Flash Crazy did say it wouldn't be wise to run 3-16340's with this pill.)
I really appreciate any insight you can give. I promise to learn this stuff as quick as I can read up
(Thanks again!)
Have a great weekend,
Blerv
Im shopping for my first multi-battery light and have settled for a DBS SST-50 (It is a 3sm). I'll also be getting the aspherical and R2 pill so I have plenty of light options.
I'd rather sacrifice run time for two RCR123 sized batteries and get the extension tube for 3 of them for more run time. My questions:
1.) are IMR123s good in the 2 config for this? Would 3 be ok as well? Or would TWO protected rcr123s set be better? (Edit: I typo'ed that...sorry!)
2.) when switching to the r2 pill will I need to change batteries to avoid a *poof* LED or will the IMR's just have a huge increase in run time.
(I'm just running 2 IMR 123/16340's and taking the run-time hit. This is working great for the R2/Asph head too. I did get the 3-batt tube instead of the 18650 tube and it makes it a bit longer but I'm with Henk on that one...I prefer it being shorter. Flash Crazy did say it wouldn't be wise to run 3-16340's with this pill.)
I really appreciate any insight you can give. I promise to learn this stuff as quick as I can read up
(Thanks again!)
Have a great weekend,
Blerv
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