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gurdygurds said:
Floppy any pics of your Daiso special??
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Sorry about the pictures but here are some quick ones







Basically it’s just the e01 head inside a pill that I made from a hand lotion pump. I’ll disassemble it at some point to show it better. I’d like to 3D print the pill at some point.
 
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This is possibly the greatest thing I have ever seen on this forum. I have been moved to tears......and yes......I'd like to buy one from you Mr. Floppy.

Mr Floppy said:
Sorry about the pictures but here are some quick ones







Basically it’s just the e01 head inside a pill that I made from a hand lotion pump. I’ll disassemble it at some point to show it better. I’d like to 3D print the pill at some point.
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gurdygurds said:
I'd like to buy one from you Mr. Floppy.
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Well hopefully I can get some 3D models printed then anyone can make their own. The other parts are a 15mm brass washer and a metal spring I got from an old pen.

Sourcing the host body might be trickier. Daiso doesn’t always have them. A few years ago, I tried this with one of those aluminium “police 3W” 1AA lights but they unscrew from the tail. The Daiso plastic one looks like the police 3W but unscrews from the head so access is easier.

Anyway, I’ll take this one apart as I’ll use one of the newer E01 heads (16 hour runtime) in it and put the old one (13 hour + 13 hours moonlight) on the new body.
 
I'll get one from you too Mr. Floppy. Back in the days I was working with one of a member here; almost got an E01 AA body. But the member suddenly disappeared. What a bummer.
 
Ok who is still a user and lover of their Fenix E01s??!! I recently posted in a Fenix thread that my LD11 was treating me good but the last two nights it’s been flickering like crazy. Finally got fed up and fished an E01 out of the closet and have been enjoying the stone simple design and drama free usage. Fenix E01...........hooray!
 
Ive carried one every single day for the last few years. Love it. The beam is horrible but I know it’ll give me light when I need it
 
gurdygurds said:
... my LD11... been flickering like crazy.
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when one of my lights does that, I find wiping out all the excess lubricant from the head and body tube solves the contact problem. I can tell that is the problem if touching the end of the body tube to a paper towel, leaves a ring of lubricant on the paper. Basically too much Love ;-)

the E01 is a great example of a terrible tint and terrible beam. And it can flicker with the best of them, if the head is not tight when turned on :-)



I never carry my E01, im in a High CRI phase...
but if an E01 makes you happy, Im happy for you :-)
 
Yessir I cleaned the threads and the contacts and the LD11 is working perfectly again. That's weird E01 behavior. Unless you had it modified with a disco mode.
jon_slider said:
when one of my lights does that, I find wiping out all the excess lubricant from the head and body tube solves the contact problem. I can tell that is the problem if touching the end of the body tube to a paper towel, leaves a ring of lubricant on the paper. Basically too much Love ;-)

the E01 is a great example of a terrible tint and terrible beam. And it can flicker with the best of them, if the head is not tight when turned on :-)



I never carry my E01, im in a High CRI phase...
but if an E01 makes you happy, Im happy for you :-)
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I have three. One is on my wife’s keychain, and one on each b.o.b.
I usually have something by Peak in my pocket.
I figure between Peak and the e01, I’ll always have a working light.
 
gurdygurds said:
Yessir I cleaned the threads and the contacts and the LD11 is working perfectly again. That's weird E01 behavior.
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yay! so glad the easy fix worked for your LD11
its amazing how much my confidence is restored, when I can make a light reliable again.

nothing special about that E01 in the video, the head is just not loose enough to prevent momentary mode.

most twisties have a slop factor, when not fully tight to be on, they can be made to turn on by pressing on the head.. that video is a demo of what can happen to a light in a pocket, if the off position is not unscrewed far enough
 
jon_slider said:
most twisties have a slop factor, when not fully tight to be on, they can be made to turn on by pressing on the head.. that video is a demo of what can happen to a light in a pocket, if the off position is not unscrewed far enough
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I kept seeing my pocket glow. Otherwise I would not have known the light was on since it did not get warm.
 
gurdygurds said:
Ok who is still a user and lover of their Fenix E01s??!! I recently posted in a Fenix thread that my LD11 was treating me good but the last two nights it’s been flickering like crazy. Finally got fed up and fished an E01 out of the closet and have been enjoying the stone simple design and drama free usage. Fenix E01...........hooray!
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I still think it's a great light, but the amount I use mine decreased significantly after getting my Sofirn C01's. I often use them for checking on the kids, or for a relaxing shower by a dim, warm glow.

But I keep the E01 handy for use as needed, too.
 
iamlucky13 said:
I still think it's a great light, but the amount I use mine decreased significantly after getting my Sofirn C01's. I often use them for checking on the kids, or for a relaxing shower by a dim, warm glow.

But I keep the E01 handy for use as needed, too.
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+1...except fir the shower part.

There is a reason why the E01 is listed the way it is in my signature. It's the purple tinted outcast that I have to keep in the family that will never let me down.
 
LeanBurn said:
+1...except fir the shower part.

There is a reason why the E01 is listed the way it is in my signature. It's the purple tinted outcast that I have to keep in the family that will never let me down.
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I have used the Fenix E01 to shower by many times, it provides just the right amount of light.
I'll add that I still carry the E01 everyday (since 2011), either on my keychain or in my bag as a backup light.

BTW regarding your signature, there is a reason I stopped listing lights in mine (unless it is relevant to the post) as it makes search results pretty much useless with so many false positives, thereby greatly decreasing the usefulness of CPF.
 
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gurdygurds said:
The E01 at Fenix Store shows up as DISCONTINUED. Discuss....
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Man CPF is very quiet these days, so I'll make the effort to post in one of my favourite threads...

Sad that over 18 months have passed since the discontinuation was announced yet Fenix never released a replacement.

My E01 recently made it's way back to my keychain again, kicked off the Surefire Titan as the mode switching on it is so unreliable (will RMA at some point, as the other one I bought works perfectly).
The E01 is still my most trusted light, I trust it even more than my HDS, Malkoff, Surefire and Elzetta lights. Just as Fenix advertised, it has been a "reliable companion" and has been with me almost everyday for nearly 10 years now. Most of the time it has been on my keychain and it still looks great (in Olive). I just top up the Eneloop every 6 months or so and I know I'll have reliable lighting no matter what kind of small emergency or big disaster happens.

Damn shame Fenix didn't consider the Halo Effect. For example, when I purchased an iPod in around 2007, as a first time Apple customer I loved it so much that a couple of months later I then purchased a fully speced out 15" Macbook Pro and 30" Apple Cinema display, soon after that an iMac, Mac Mini, Macbook... etc. (BTW stopped buying Apple products a number of years later as they offer zero freedom, self repairs and upgraded are near impossible, so I went back to Linux, but I digress).

Anyway think about how many people purchased their E01 and then were so impressed they purchased more Fenix lights, that happened to me too. If I recall, I purchased 1 at first, loved it, then purchased a bunch more as gifts, then purchased an LD20 and later a TK41 too.

Nowadays I think this mainly happens with Olights, people get their first cheapo EOS i3E then end up purchasing bigger Olights.

I'm pretty sure Fenix has lost so many potential customers with the cancellation of the E01.
They even gave the revenue away to Sofirn when Fenix decided they didn't want to do a hiCRI version.

Cancelling the E01 just seems like a very bad business decision to me.

BTW Gurdy, I guess you are still using yours, I think they'll eventually have to pry it from your cold dead hands. ;)
 
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