NEW Maratac AA cu (Copper)

Just ordered a Maratac AA cu - and would like to know more about the light.

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What I do know:
Length: 3.1"; Diameter: 0.7"; Weight: 49 grams
Weight with battery is 71 grams
LED type: New Cree R3 with a life span up to 50,000 hours.
The New Orange Peel Reflector is aluminum alloy.
Flashlight body is machined of solid billet ultra conductive pure alloy 101 copper.
The lens has been treated with an AR (anti-reflective) coating.
Its proprietary circuit design features reverse polarity protection and runs off of one AA battery.
With 2 levels of brightness ( Low / High).
Comes with clip & o-rings.
Clip installed from factory to preserve finish

Got no info on lumens on the AA, but the AAA version is low 1,8 and high 115.

To me, it looks like the light has the excact same specs as the AAA version, just with longer runtime. Ideas?:thinking:

low mode, 1.8 lumen output for 100 hours
high mode, 125 lumen output for 100 minutes

probably longer runtimes i'd imagine are the only real differences?

tobrien said:

probably longer runtimes i'd imagine are the only real differences?

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The copper AAA I bought a few months ago (the most recent run) has a XPG-led, with the small reflector the hotspot is rather large. If they put in a XPE-led in this AA version (as in the non-copper version of the Maratac AA rev2) the beam will have a tighter and brighter hotspot than the AAA-version, due to the smaller led-size (=also higher surface brightness) combined with the bigger reflector. (For me that makes the light more usefull than the AAA version -apart from the runtime-). And it should happily run on 14500's .

Have one on order, but doubt it's here before x-mas. It has a larger reflector than the aaa, so it should focus the xp-g tighter than the aaa version. i think it might shine with a 14500 My aaa cu rev2 seems to do well on a 10440:devil: Love the aaa, cant wait to see the aa

Great! Thanks for the enlightenment!

I'm waiting for someone who has the NEW copper AA to verify the low/high sequence.

Still waiting! as Jorn wrote, we might have to wait until after Christmas for the copper light to arrive. As soon as it arrives...

i have mine already :twothumbs

First impressions?? Eager to hear how it is!

Kamerat said:

First impressions?? Eager to hear how it is!

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just like its little brother it is beautiful the fit and finish is nice and it looks to be about the same in terms of brightness except with a tighter hotspot. It has a much nicer tint than my AAA which has a very bluish tint. There is one problem with it and that is the O-ring gets caught sometimes when i tighten the head down.

Shooter21 said:

It has a much nicer tint than my AAA which has a very bluish tint.

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Happy to hear that! Can you confirm that the UI is Low > High with no memory?

Have a 14500 to try in it? :devil:

turkeylord said:

Happy to hear that! Can you confirm that the UI is Low > High with no memory?

Have a 14500 to try in it? :devil:

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yes its low then high with no memory and it does nicely with a 14500. I dont have a way to test the brightness but it seems alot brighter.

• Clip installed from factory to preserve finish
• New Stronger Clip

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Guess that means the copper will get marred there, if try to remove it yourself? Now that this is available in AA, tough to pass up.

Shooter21 said:

yes its low then high with no memory and it does nicely with a 14500. I dont have a way to test the brightness but it seems alot brighter.

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Excellent, thanks

leon2245 said:

Guess that means the copper will get marred there, if try to remove it yourself?

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that's a safe assumption. I have the AAA version and i haven't even attempted to remove it.

Got mine today. Dident feel too heavy. Put a battery in it, and turned it on. What do i see? NOOOOOOOOOOO, it's pwm Took me 1 sek to spot the nasty, blinking, crappy, energy consuming pwm. I suspect it might have less runtime than the current controlled aaa version... (i dont like pwm at all). Same size as a 4sevens mini aa. The mini got faster pwm, harder to spot, but no problems noticing a 2 KHz pwm. The maratac is way slower. So i'll continue to use that quark around the house and put that maratac aa in a drawer and forget about it.


Also got this tiny cool maratac lighter on the same order, so the order was not a total failure.

Edit:
Maratac torture has started. Since i don't care about the light at all. Ill try to kill it with tailstanding it in high, and run some 14500's trough it.. To see if it burns.... It's really, really hot right now:devil:

jorn said:

Edit:
Maratac torture has started. Since i don't care about the light at all. Ill try to kill it with tailstanding it in high, and run some 14500's trough it.. To see if it burns.... It's really, really hot right now:devil:

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Let us know how it holds up! Bummer about the PWM though.

It did fine on the first battery, and im now on the second one. Im not going to do more than 2 14500's in a row. All this heat can't be good for my presious 14500's haha. Took 2 temprature sensors from the computer and put one on the head near the led and one under the base of the clip at the bottom. 67celsius at the head and 60 C under the clip. Dont know how accurate theese sensors are. But my hand feels the same thing. Burning hot, even at the tail end The copper spreads the heat really well. The quark mini feels hotter on the head, and not so hot at the tail with 14500's.

That's impressive. So you ran a whole 14500 through the mini too?

I'm hoping to hear someone say that their example the PWM wasn't as noticeable too...