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  • J5-V2 700 lm Flashlight: QC FAIL, Redux

    The inside of the replacement J5 V2 Tactical Flashlight doesn’t have quite as much dirt on the LED emitter, but it’s still pretty bad:

    J5-V2 Flashlight - LED crud - second unit
    J5-V2 Flashlight – LED crud – second unit

    The small white dingus at about 10 o’clock seems to be a plastic shred stuck on end to the emitter lens. Here’s a better look, rotated a quarter-turn counterclockwise:

    J5-V2 Flashlight - LED crud detail - second unit
    J5-V2 Flashlight – LED crud detail – second unit

    There’s also an alien egg glued to the heatsink beside the LED:

    J5-V2 Flashlight - random pellet - second unit
    J5-V2 Flashlight – random pellet – second unit

    I’m hoping it’s another random plastic blob.

    There’s no point in returning this one; it’ll suffice for my purposes. However, given two random samples, I’d say the J5 Tactical Flashlight factory, wherever it may be in China, is really filthy.

    I’d hoped that paying a bit more for a “tactical” flashlight, instead of going bottom dollar, would yield a better product. Maybe it did?