Very thorough review, thanks for posting it. I like how the Lemmy/Mastodon comments are now merged into your blog. I might try to set something like that up for some of my own web pages.
One request: could you at some point add an index to your review site? Preferably automatically generated and linked to categories. I don’t know what software you are using so don’t know how feasible this is, but it would be nice.
I think Zeroair’s category links work ok for now. if his site had a lot more reviews, I’d want a more compact format, like parametrek’s db pages. I’ll give it some thought and maybe post more later.
Like many people, I only got on Lemmy recently, because of the Reddit meltdown. So that’s why I didn’t notice the Mastodon comments before.
My one serious complaint is that the charging pad can cause sparks when short-circuited. I was not able to ignite steel wool with it as I could with the Olight H2R and the current shuts off almost instantly. Still, live contacts on the outside of a flashlight are a safety concern in some situations and I’d like to see Skilhunt add a diode to the charging pad to eliminate the risk. This is enough of a flaw to keep me from giving the M200 v3 the five-star rating it has otherwise earned and to hesitate to recommend it to mechanics who could be around both metal shavings and fuel.
Is that just the charging cable side? or does the light on its own have any of this behaviour
That is a pretty horrible misdesign or maybe manufacturing defect, if live voltage is supplied to the external contacts like that. It is even a safety hazard. It’s enough to make me want to stay away from the light without wanting to know anything else about it. Ouch. I’d take off way more than one star for that. I can’t see this light paying any reasonable certification or type acceptance, if such a thing exists for flashlights.
I do appreciate the very detailed data table right at the start of the review. I wish other reviewers also did that.
@solrize it's an issue for all the Skilhunt lights with magnetic charging. It's not nearly as bad as when Olight did the same thing, but Olight fixed it.
Thanks but that turns me off from the whole brand. It’s almost like a light that explodes. I had thought of the magnetic charger as a smaller alternative to a cradle charger and I hope no cradle lights do anything like that. They should not have approved production of a light with this flaw. If Mag or Streamlight had shipped this, they would probably have to do a recall. Ouch.
For clarity, there’s no risk of the light (battery) exploding itself. The current shuts off immediately when shorted.
The scenario where there could be risk is if a metal shaving arcs the pad and there is a combustible gas or liquid in the immediate vicinity of the light. I would be way more worried about sparks from other sources (metal on metal, static electricity) in that environment than I would be about this flashlight.
Not really an issue for the vast majority of users but worth the disclaimer and the one star hit IMHO.
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