i know my tittle is a pretty big statement especially with all you flashaholics in here
but hear me out first ok!
just got my new sc600 in the mail today and it has very quickly become my most favourite light I have ever owned, know I dont have a lot of posts but I have almost...around about.... exactly 14 different light including tk35, klarus xt10, SR92, TM11 and a lot of other tactical and ecd lights. its has been a while since I have opened a new light and was actually
VERY happy with my purchase. for the first time i cant think of something that I dislike or would change about a light (realistically... 5000 lumen 1x18650 would be nice). 750lm out of this one 18650 light is amazing, blows all my other tactical lights out of the water. its timer protection over thermal protection after 5 min steps down to 500lm. 9 different progamable memory settings so you can costomise how u use your torch. great runtimes from 500lm 2.1 hours all the way down to 2.8lm 280hours and 0.1lm for 80 days. its front clicky and the button feels solid, its a great flood light but throws pretty dam well also. the best tint out of any of the lights I have owned, the most neutral out of all my cool white lights. genius UI, tiny size, awesome look and feel....
this might even be the end of me buying lights for a while.... unless of course the sc600 II comes out or the next amazing led comes out lol
not saying its the best light, everyone has their favourite, im just saying its the most perfect all round... if that makes sense lol
zebralight has to get some recognition for doing an amazing job on this
can I get a +1 for the SC600 or what?
I heard the SC600 II is coming out soon, with 5,000 lumens on 1 Cr123! Just kidding.....
I got my SC600 about 5 weeks ago, and I like it, but I have more issues with it than with my other 4 lights. I was thinking of buying the warmer LED version of the SC600 at first, but I think the tint of the Sc600 is great. Its also very bright, for 5 minutes, then its as bright as my other 18650 light. I like it's size(small) and its thickness(rugged). I like the fact it has LOTS of modes. Its switch is very tough, etc.
But here are the problems I have with it:
1. It's very complicated to learn how to use initially, and it wouldnt be a good emergency light for the family, because you'd have to train them on how to use all the settings, and they'd have to remember all the correct clicks, double clicks, series of double clicks, the holds, single clicks, etc. Plus if you dont click at the right time, it just shuts off. So it would be annoying for someone who hadnt "practiced" with it.
2. It's supposed type III hard anodizing is the thinnest, easiest to scratch I've ever seen. It scratched the 1st time I installed the pocket clip! My Jetbeam BC-10 has a pocket clip, and its been spun around and taken off and put back on countless times over 9 months, and it still hasnt scratched where the clip connects, but the SC600 scratched the very 1st time!
3. Its settings are too difficult to find sometimes
4. its a pure flood light, and only on high 1 and high 2 does it have decent throw.
5. It's beam and it's hot spot arent very clear, round and precise. Its got dark spots and lines through the hot spot.
6. It ONLY runs on 18650's, when MOST lights of this size run on 2 CR123's, and even 2 RCR123's and 2 16340's.
7. If I turn the rear cap so much as 4-5mm, the light will not turn on. I like lights that can be shut out by twisting the rear cap or clicky 90-180 degrees so you dont lose the battery to parasitic drain, but this one shuts off when you turn it like 10 degrees! Thats too close for comfort.
8. The switch is too far recessed. I do want it recessed some to prevent accidentally switching on, but this switch is so recessed that I cant get my thumb in there to turn it on, so I hold it like I'd hold a rear click light, and I use my ring finger to switch it on, off and through the modes.
That may seem like a long list of "issues", and I dont have these issues with my other lights, but I gotta say that I still do like this light, just not as much as I thought I would.
