I have been very impressed with my Olight purchases. Started with the full sized Valkyrie, then the PL2 Mini and two flashlights. Insee they have this on a VP9SK in some photos…which is the only subcompact I have.
I just saw this thread. Not sure what happened but I saw two videos last night by some strange reason and they both mentioned the sale. I’ve never even heard of the light much less the sale. I got in and the Black was gone so got a DT with one hour left to go.
I hope it fits either of two pistols… VP9 or PPS(orig). It was a knee jerk reaction to buy but I just moved my Surefire X300 to a rifle this weekend and was wondering what to do about a pistol light.
Good to know they are well liked and my VP9 is DT anyway. Although I don’t care about the color issue.
I have an older Olight M30 ( bought it new) that hasn’t even seen 1/2 hour of usage, and has never been outside of the house. It stopped working, period. It’s out of warranty, and is in perfect condition minus the not working part. I for one will never buy an Olight again.
I bought a SureFire Aviator original version that failed right away. Like the first week. Called SureFire, and they said… “what’s your address?” Sent me a new dual bulb component. I guess that’s going on 20 years now.
I bought the PL 2 Valkyrie over the Christmas season and was thoroughly impressed. I bought two of the mini’s. I got the first one today and so far, I am liking it! Small, lightweight but tosses out a good beam!!
The mount is very clever along with being rechargable without having to remove it from the firearm. Interesting point, Olight’s website does not list the run time.
Have you had an actual bad experience with their CS? I had a small S1 Baton go intermittent on me. I had to reset it by taking out the battery for it to work. I emailed them about it, they sent an RMA number to me pretty quickly, I sent them the light, they gave me the new improved version for free. That’s pretty good CS if you ask me.
Their warranty is 5 years. Who doesn’t use a light for a full 5 years? Contact their CS and send it back to them. Explain to them that it has only a half hour usage. You might be surprised at what they do. It won’t hurt.
Warranty after 5 years off their site: "After 5 years of purchase: Return the product to Olight and we will repair or replace it. We will assess the fees involved and will let you know once we receive it. "
So I assume over the course of 60 minutes it reduces from 600lm at 100meters down to about 60lm at 1meter
so 200 more lm at the cost of 10 minutes run time over the old model.
Old Model 1
400lumens (~60lm);
1h10m (1m).
Seems like a pretty good warranty to me… 5 years.
WARRANTY:
Within 30 days of purchase: Return the product to the retailer you purchased it from and they will replace or repair it. Period.
Within 5 years of purchase: Return the product to Olight and we will repair or replace it as long as the light is not working because of factory defects. This does not include obvious user wear or extreme damage.
After 5 years of purchase: Return the product to Olight and we will repair or replace it. We will assess the fees involved and will let you know once we receive it.
Ok, just got my light. Fits both VP9 and PPS with the included adapter as both have different rail systems.
The written instructions say that it will run at full output for 1 minute. Then it will run for 10 minutes as it ramps from 600 to 60 lumens. The total run time is 60 minutes.
So…
600 lumens 1 minute
600 to 60 lumens over 10 minutes
60 lumens about 50 minutes
ETA: Just something I noticed. If you charge from a power brick, once it fully charges the LED goes out instead of staying green. If you put it on a wired USB outlet the LED turns green and stays that way.