Finally got a Fenix!

Roadie · **Reply #60 on:** June 13, 2008, 12:04:06 AM

Well my housemate broke the valve on my road bikes inner

So it needed replacing, this meant i had a useless piece of rubber hanging around, then i remembered various posts about putting inner tube around your torch to improve grip. So here's the result! It's amazing how much better it is to hold with it on, very impressed and happy

WhichDawg · **Reply #61 on:** June 13, 2008, 12:29:11 AM

very nice! now the next time she says; "Rubber?" your covered!

Roadie · **Reply #62 on:** June 13, 2008, 12:30:07 AM

Quote from: WhichDawg on June 13, 2008, 12:29:11 AM

very nice! now the next time she says; "Rubber?" your covered!

edap617 · **Reply #63 on:** June 13, 2008, 01:20:59 AM

Roadie, the ruber might reduce the heat transfer from the tube body to your hand at to the surrounding air. The torch might get too hot on turbo mode.

Roadie · **Reply #64 on:** June 13, 2008, 10:42:57 AM

The body doesn't really act as a heatsink only the head of the torch so i'm not bothered about that. I've run it on turbo for 20mins and not had the body warm up, the head yes but the body no

edap617 · **Reply #65 on:** June 13, 2008, 10:53:29 AM

Ah ok.

NutSAK · **Reply #66 on:** June 13, 2008, 01:59:23 PM

Quote from: Roadie on June 13, 2008, 10:42:57 AM

The body doesn't really act as a heatsink only the head of the torch so i'm not bothered about that. I've run it on turbo for 20mins and not had the body warm up, the head yes but the body no

You'd be surprised how much heat is transferred into your hand (and circulation system) through the body of the L2D. You won't feel the body warm up while you're holding it because your hand is pulling the heat away. If you tried the same thing with a P2D (CR123) body instead of the L2D body, you would notice a drastic difference because the mass and surface area of that body can't sink the heat away like the larger L2D body can.