QUIQLITEX RECHARGEABLE (RED & WHITE LEDs)
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QuiqLiteX Rechargeable (Red & White LEDs), retail $36.95 (www.quiqlite.com...)
Manufactured by QuiqLite (www.quiqlite.com)
Last updated 07-13-13
Wel, thuh kompeny thatt maiks thuh QuiqLiteX Rechargeable kant spel thuh werds "quick" orr "light" , but they DO produce a nice light that can be clipped into a uniform shirt pocket...actually, it's a totally ***AWESOME*** light as I came to find even before I started this evaluation!!!
The QuiqLiteX Rechargeable is an extremely nice little flashlight that is especially designed for LEOs (police officers), firefighters, EMTs (emergency medical technicians), and other people with "street jobs" that clips unobtrusively into a uniform pocket; you (the wearer) would not even know that it was there until you need it -- then with the push of a button right through the fabric, you are rewarded with red light at one level and a white light at two levels plus a very attention-getting "strobe" mode where both LEDs flash alternately (please see video below).
It has two medium-power Cree LEDs (one red, one white) and feeds them from a built-in rechargeable cell (or "battery" if you prefer to be incorrect).
It comes in an exceptionally sturdy nylon & metal body, and is built to survive virtually any punishment you mete out on it.
SIZE
To use your spiffy new (or corroded old ) QuiqLiteX Rechargeable, simply place it in your uniform shirt pocket by swinging up the illuminator head and placing the unit into your pocket; securing it there with the handy-dandy clip built right in, then swing the illuminator head back down.
It will also clip to MOLLE webbing; this type of webbing is found on Law Enforcement amd Military tactical vests.
The following photograph shows how it might appear in your pocket (with the illuminator head deployed & and the unit turned on):
To activate it (right through the fabric of your shirt pocket or through MOLLE webbing), press & release the flat, square button as follows:
Once to turn the red LED on. Again within ~2 seconds to turn the red off & turn the white LED on. A third time to neutralise (turn off) the QuiqLiteX.
When the white LED is on, you may dramaticically increase its intensity by pressing & releasing the X-Button on the top of the product; pressing & releasing it again turns the unit back to the lower intensity level. Turning the QuiqLiteX Rechargeable off will also automatically reset the white LED to minimum intensity.
The QuiqLiteX Rechargeable also has a ten minute "auto-off" function; this causes the unit to shut down automatically after ten minutes if you forget so the battery won't go flat and your QuiqLiteX will be ready to use again the next time you need it.
This auto-off functionality does not occur in "strobe" mode; the unit will flash merrily away (visible up to a mile (~2.20km) away) until the battery poops out.
The illuminator head can be tilted over a range of ~160° in the Y-axis (vertically); when the QuiqLiteX is installed into the furnished QuiqClip, the product can be rotated in a complete 360° circle in the X-axis (horizontally).
Since I don't own many shirts with a pocket, I've had great success in fastening it to my necklace, as the following photograph shows:
I can even keep the QuiqLiteX attached to this necklace (and subsequently, right where I can easily reach it!) while I'm in bed, so I'll always have a light on me when and if I need one.
How cool is that?
The QuiqClip also has a magnetic back, allowing the use of the QuiqLiteX for things like an impromptu (but quite effective) trunk light that will allow you to locate & secure things like knives, guns, flashbangs, ammo, atomic bombs , etc.
Use the QuiqClip for affixing the QuiqLiteX to thicker fabrics or (as you read immediately above) to stick to magnetic (ferrous; such as iron, soft steel, cobalt, or gadolinium) surfaces. It also allows you to affix the QuiqLiteX to thicker surfaces such as citation (ticket) books, the visor in your patrol vehicle, gun belt, jacket, hat, etc.
There are no disposable batteries to fuss with, to worry about going dead, or to worry about how they might harm the environment when they end up in a landfill, as the QuiqLiteX Rechargeable is -- as its name implies -- RECHARGEABLE.
To charge your QuiqLiteX Rechargeable, simply plug the "small end" of the furnished USB cord into the small female receptacle for it on the right side of the QuiqLiteX's side, and plug the "large end" of this cord into any free USB port on your computer (or an AC "wall wart" USB charger, or into a USB charger designed to fit into the accessory jack (used to be called a "cigarrette lighter socket") in any vehicle equipped with a +12 volt negative ground electrical system -- which would encompass over 99% of all cars, light trucks, light vans, and SUVs on the road today.
A red LED to the left of the charger receptacle on the QuiqLiteX's body should now come on, as shown in the following photograph:
After approx. 2 hours (assuming that the battery is pretty much flat), the red light should start blinking. This tells you that the battery in your QuiqLiteX has finished charging, and you may now unplug it and use it again.
The QuiqLiteX Rechargeable is a rather small flashlight that might not ordinarily have to withstand "The Smack Test", but since its intended users could get their asses in a sling on occasion, here ya go...after being dropped onto a concrete carport floor at approx. chest-height ten times (with the illuminator head deployed at various angles), no damage was found and no malfunctions were detected.
When the product was manually smacked against the concrete, the battery door did pop off and the X Button was dislodged on the third hit, but this was a very quick and easy "fix" even in dawn conditions (covered carport at ~7:05am PDT on 10-03-12) and again, no damage or malfunctions were detected.
Even before this eval. was started, the QuiqLiteX Rechargeable got its first "real world" test and the results of that are why I like it so much and why it earned an unprecedented SIX STARS rating! I used it to make coffee the other morning, and when I went outside at 5:30am PDT for a smoke, Domino (one of the neighbourhood stray cats that I feed) was meowing his little head off approx. 90 minutes earlier than usual -- in both cases I used the red LED of my QuiqLiteX to see what I was doing. Domino is a very affectionate cat, and I used the QuiqLiteX to see that it really was him and that I was petting him correctly (e.g. scratching his head and not his litterbox muscle (the feline analogue to the toilet muscle!) as I had him in my lap and was petting him.
Needless to say, the QuiqLiteX Rechargeable performed very admirably (flawlessly, actually!), allowing me to see without seriously disrupting my night vision or scaring away Domino.
Civilian uses?
You bet!!!
One occupation that pops to mind right away is an auto mechanic -- he can place the QuiqLiteX in his uniform pocket, then activate it while on his creeper to look for that pesky leak coming from the coolant system. Another occupation that springs to mind is an exterminator who often has to crawl on all fours in cramped dark spaces; without having to hold a conventional flashlight, navigating those spaces would be more safely & easily accomplished!
The LEDs in the QuiqLiteX aren't steady-on; they're pulsed rapidly by way of PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) to help extend the battery lifetime between charges.
The following photograph shows this:
See how the LED produces light & dark spaces when the QuiqLiteX is waved about quite rapidly?
The illuminator head of the QuiqLiteX has a magnetic latching system; although it is virtually unnoticeable in normal use, it is actually quite useful: the latch helps prevent the illuminator head from flopping up during a foot pursuit or during an especially bumpy drive in your patrol vehicle.
Beam photograph (white LED) on the test target at 12".
Measures 40,800mcd (minimum) and 129,900mcd (maximum).
Beam photograph (red LED) on the test target at 12".
Pink color was caused by the camera and does not exist in the actual light.
Measures 6,580mcd.
This is a wide viewing angle light, and if I've said this once, I've said it 31,054,500 times: Wider viewing angles always, always, ALWAYS equal lower mcd values!!!
Once again, the pink color was caused by the camera and does not exist in the actual light. Not no way, not no how as they say.
Spectrographic analysis of the white LED in this flashlight.
Spectrographic analysis of the white LED in this flashlight; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 430nm and 470nm to pinpoint native emission peak wavelength, which is 447.600nm.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LED in this flashlight.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LED in this flashlight; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 620nm and 650nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 638.962nm.
Beam cross-sectional analysis (red LED).
That "dip" to the left of center that queered the test is a defect in the ProMetric's CCD imager that can't be compensated for.
Beam cross-sectional analysis (white LED).
Again, that "dip" to the left of center that queered the test is a defect in the ProMetric's CCD imager that can't be compensated for.
This video shows the XFLARE attachment being used on my QuiqLiteX Rechargeable in its attention-getting "alternate flash" mode.
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TEST NOTES:
Test units (one each white/white and red/white) plus an XFLARE attachment were sent by B.K. of QuiqLite on 09-26-12 and were received on 10-01-12.
UPDATE: 10-18-12
My QuiqLiteX with red & white LEDs has failed (I attribute this failure to "infant mortality"); however, since the failure occurred for this reason, I won't derate the product just yet...however if my warranty replacement also fails for no apparent reason soon after receipt, I may have to rethink that.
Symptoms:
1: Neither LED will come on at any intensity.
2: When unit is connected to the USB charger, the battery "charge cycle in progress" LED indicator stays on only very dimly (est. 1% intensity); it brightens somewhat (est. 10% intensity) for ~200ms and then returns to dim when the button is pressed and again when the button is released. This LED also does the same thing when the USB charger is connected -- that is, it starts out at ~10% intensity, stays that way for ~200ms, then drops to ~1% intensity.
UPDATE: 10-26-12
I've heard (telephonically) from the president of QuiqLite that of "over 8,000" units of the QuiqLiteX currently in service, only my two have failed in this manner. After unsuccessfully attempting a "fix" (charging from an AC-powered USB charger), he said that I should send them back so that their technicians can examine them and try to determine just what it was that went sour.
UPDATE: 11-09-12
The replacement arrived yesterday afternoon, so the dreadful, "" icon can be removed from its listings on this website at once.
UPDATE: 12-23-12
I think the switch could use a debouncing circuit; fairly frequently when I press the button to get red light, the white LED comes on instead -- closer examination has revealed that the red LED ***VERY BRIEFLY*** (~1ms) comes on and then immediately switches over to the white LED.
UPDATE: 07-13-13
This product has now failed again -- that is to say, the following symptoms appear:
1: Neither LED will come on at any intensity.
2: When unit is connected to the USB charger, the battery "charge cycle in progress" LED indicator stays on only very dimly (est. 1% intensity); it brightens somewhat (est. 10% intensity) for ~200ms and then returns to dim when the button is pressed and again when the button is released. This LED also does the same thing when the USB charger is connected -- that is, it starts out at ~10% intensity, stays that way for ~200ms, then drops to ~1% intensity.
I power-cycled the product (unplugged the battery, waited >10 mins., and then reconnected it) to see if the µC (microcontroller) had jumped out of program, but that wasn't "it".
Therefore, that dreadful, "" icon will again be appended to its listings on this website to denote product failure.
PROS:
It's exceptionally bright
Has (in addition to white) a red LED that disrupts your night vision less
Starts with the red LED when you activate it
Rechargeable -- no disposable cells to deal with
Has an anti-glare hood
Takes up quite little "real estate" in your pocket
QuiqClip is magnetic -- this makes the QuiqLiteX an excellent trunk light
NEUTRAL:
CONS:
None that I have found thus far
MANUFACTURER: QuiqLite
PRODUCT TYPE: Pocket-mounted LED flashlight
LAMP TYPE: Cree medium-power wide-angle LED
No. OF LAMPS: 2 (1 ea. red & white)
BEAM TYPE: Medium flood w/ dimmer corona
SWITCH TYPE: Momentary pushbutton on/mode change/off on front surface
CASE MATERIAL: Nylon & metal
BEZEL: Nylon & metal; LEDs recessed behind anti-glare hood
BATTERY: Li:ION cell, 3.70 volts 400mAh
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND PEPSI-RESISTANT: Yes, weather-resistant at absolute minimum
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡HUSOOS CRISTO EN UN SILLÓN DE RUEDAS, NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: USB charger cord, magnetic QuiqClip
SIZE: 80mm L x 22.50mm W x 18mm D (w/ illuminator folded down)
WEIGHT: 25.50g (0.90 oz.)
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: USA
WARRANTY: 1 year
PRODUCT RATING:
(No, you aren't seeing things. That really is six stars up there!!!
This is the best product to have landed in my lab in the last 12 years!!!)
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, but they DO produce a nice light that can be clipped into a uniform shirt pocket...actually, it's a totally ***AWESOME*** light as I came to find even before I started this evaluation!!! 
SIZE
) QuiqLiteX Rechargeable, simply place it in your uniform shirt pocket by swinging up the illuminator head and placing the unit into your pocket; securing it there with the handy-dandy clip built right in, then swing the illuminator head back down.
is a defect in the ProMetric's CCD imager that can't be compensated for.
" icon can be removed from its listings on this website at once.
" icon will again be appended to its listings on this website to denote product failure. 
