pslawinski
Newly Enlightened
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2016
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So let me start off by saying that I'm a pretty big fan of ZL. I've had a SC600 II L2 for 2.5 years. During that period, It's lived in my pocket for all but maybe ... 10-20 days tops (because I forgot it for whatever reason). I haven't been "kind" to it, but it hasn't complained. It just keeps on going and going and going. I did a bunch of searching before I got that torch, and it was the most powerful single 18650 torch I could find at the time. Really, I can't say enough about how great it's been for me.
Now ... enter the title of this forum post. A few months back I had a friend of mine show me his recently acquired SC63, not one to be outdone, I went online to see if they had refreshed the SC600. Of course, they had, so I placed the order. Upon powering this thing up, I was taken aback by the excellent color rendering. I've put the thing head to head up against actual sunlight, and the difference is minimal. The beam quality is excellent also, I find that it's great for using to take cell phone photos, since there isn't a hot spot that appears in the middle of the photo. Also it's smaller than my older sc600, and lighter too.
Unfortunately, it hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows for me.
This is my *THIRD* SC600 FD III Plus. I said I wasn't kind to my previous torch, and that is true. However, for these three... I haven't had them long enough to abuse them. I just put them in my pocket like I have done with my SC600II for the past 2.5 years. Sadly, this seems to be too much for the SC600III. This is the third one I've had fail the same way. The front lens has shattered. Before anybody asks ... no, none of them have been dropped, or anything obvious like that. The last SC600III I had didn't just have a cracked lens BTW, the driver went out as well. This one doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling either. Some strange red goo looks like it has oozed out from the front of the torch inside the barrel. Now, I haven't had the torch long, and I didn't look for the goo before the front lens cracked, so it may well have been there before the lens cracked. If the red stuff was there when I got this torch, that would be pretty bad, I think.
I've only used unprotected 18650s (since that's all I have) Panasonic NCR18650B and LG HE21865.
At this point, I'm pretty frustrated. I really do want to love this torch, but it keeps letting me down. Has anybody else had these problems, or am in some strange bizarro world / doing something wrong?
Now ... enter the title of this forum post. A few months back I had a friend of mine show me his recently acquired SC63, not one to be outdone, I went online to see if they had refreshed the SC600. Of course, they had, so I placed the order. Upon powering this thing up, I was taken aback by the excellent color rendering. I've put the thing head to head up against actual sunlight, and the difference is minimal. The beam quality is excellent also, I find that it's great for using to take cell phone photos, since there isn't a hot spot that appears in the middle of the photo. Also it's smaller than my older sc600, and lighter too.
Unfortunately, it hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows for me.
This is my *THIRD* SC600 FD III Plus. I said I wasn't kind to my previous torch, and that is true. However, for these three... I haven't had them long enough to abuse them. I just put them in my pocket like I have done with my SC600II for the past 2.5 years. Sadly, this seems to be too much for the SC600III. This is the third one I've had fail the same way. The front lens has shattered. Before anybody asks ... no, none of them have been dropped, or anything obvious like that. The last SC600III I had didn't just have a cracked lens BTW, the driver went out as well. This one doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling either. Some strange red goo looks like it has oozed out from the front of the torch inside the barrel. Now, I haven't had the torch long, and I didn't look for the goo before the front lens cracked, so it may well have been there before the lens cracked. If the red stuff was there when I got this torch, that would be pretty bad, I think.
I've only used unprotected 18650s (since that's all I have) Panasonic NCR18650B and LG HE21865.
At this point, I'm pretty frustrated. I really do want to love this torch, but it keeps letting me down. Has anybody else had these problems, or am in some strange bizarro world / doing something wrong?