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High = TBA lux @ 1.4v AAA NiMh
Low = TBA lux @ 1.4v AAA NiMh

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High = 110 lux @ 1.4v AAA NiMh
Low = 13 lux @ 1.4v AAA NiMh

Current
High = 1.75A off battery
Low = 0.20A off battery

Weight 

62.7g / 2.22oz (with battery)
51.5g / 1.82oz (without battery)

Initial Impressions
- It's very heavy! Well, that's the very first thing that came out of my mouth when I received it. =P

- Also looks very nice indeed. Looks like it's worth some dosh. Very prone to finger print marks. =)

Build Quality
- Super smooth Stainless Steel outer finish. Nice and thick walls. Fancy brass ring. Looks expensive.

- Green glow in the dark (GITD) o-rings in front of glass lense and on both head and tail switch threads.

- Green GITD tail cap. It's a reverse click and as it protrudes out, it's very easy to press using any finger.

- Deep smooth aluminium reflector. Made for the smaller Cree XP-E. Perfectly centered Cree XP-E R2 emitter.

- Has two small round-edges lanyard holes on 1 side of tail. Not the easiest to put the lanyard through.

- The threads definitely need some lubing as it is not butter smooth without it. (Mine didn't come with any)

- There is a gold-colored possibly-brass ring. It's more for looks than anything else.

- It seems you can unscrew the light-engine pill out from the inside. (like most flashlights)

Lght Output
- Has 3 modes High, Low and strobe. Not a bad combination really. Very useful.

- Due to the smooth reflector, the beam does show some rings around the hotspot although very faintly. (and doesn't look ugly at all still)

- Low mode is quite dim. This is great as it should have great runtime at such low output.

- Spill is still wide and bright. No ugly holes or anything. Clean edges.

- Tint on my sample is on the cool to neutral side. Not too warm and not blue/green either.

In Use
- As can be seen, it doesn't tail stand.

- Has 2 nice round edged lanyard hole in the tail end.

- Oh, did I say it was heavy. =P 

- No knurlings on the body. So it can get quite slippery.

- It's definitely more of a "fancy" light but as it has 3 modes, it is very useful even in real life use.

- As it's fully round, it will roll off non-level tables unless you had some decent lanyard attached to it.

- Reverse clicky. Has a nice solid feel to the click. No excess travel in the clicky.

- You can change mode via gentle half-press of the clicky. Easy.

- It has memory. If you turn it off and leave it off for longer than about 3-4 seconds, it turns back on to the last used mode.

- Even if you had the light on for just 1 second, it turns back on to that mode if left off for more than about 3 seconds.

Conclusion
- I can say that thi light is actually quite nice. Definitely worth keeping and also for collection.

- I reckon it'll be great as a small gift also as it definitely looks and feels like it's worth some money.

- It's also a very capable little flashlight. Bright output even with AAA and a nice low mode also.

- For what it is and for this price, I can only give it 6 stars. Really. I guess the nice shiny look and feel won me over.

- I think I might buy this whenever I need to give someone a small gift. It has that "gift worthy" look to it.  =P

[Runtime Chart]

- My AAA LSD NiMh results were bad. So here's the re-run using a cheap Alkaline battery and a "brand new" Energizer AAA NiMh on High. 

 [Photos]

- Nice smooth silver finish. Really does look and feel far more expensive than it really is. This alone makes it worth its price.

- Comparison photo with few other AA and AAA flashlights. Note that only E07 flashlight uses AA. Rest are AAA flashlights.

- You can see that F23 has a smooth reflector instead of textured one. This does produce slightly more concentrated hotspot althought more ringy.