ICON ROGUE 2 FLASHLIGHT


ICON Rogue 2 Flashlight, retail $26.00 (www.amazon.com...)
Manufactured by (Unknown) for ICON in California (URL no longer valid)
Last updated 03-17-15






The Rogue 2 is a 2x AA cell flashlight that has a white high-powered LED at the bottom of a stippled (texturised) reflector

It comes in a thick aluminum body, and has a transparent plastic window in its "business-end" to protect the LED and reflector.

The Rogue 2 is turned on and off using a rubberised button on its tailcap. It is a two-stage light (high and low); these can be easily selected by pushing the tailcap button.


Size of product w/hand to show scale SIZE



To use the Rogue 2, press & release the tailcap button once to activate it in "high" mode, press & release it again to turn the flashlight off, press & release it a third time to turn the flashlight on in "low" mode, and press & release it a fourth time to turn the flashlight off.

When you desire low mode, you have to turn the Rogue 2 off and back on again within ~2 seconds of initially turning it on.

Just like it reads on the back of many shampoo bottles, "lather, rinse, repeat".
In other words, pressing & releasing the tailcap button again turns the Rogue 2 on in "high" mode.

Momentary (signalling) operation is available by pressing the tailcap button less firmly (before it clicks) and holding it that way for as long as you need light. As for constant-on mode, if you need low mode, you have to turn the Rogue 2 off and back on again within ~2 seconds of initially turning it on.



To change the batteries in your brand spanken new (or corroded old) Rogue 2, unscrew & remove the bezel (head), carry it to a bridge over deep water (the Oakland Bay Bridge would be ideal; however, the Juneau-Douglas Bridge would also do in a pinch here), and throw it over the side so that it goes "blub blub blub" all the way to the bottom of Gastineau Channel with all of the bowling balls that were lobbed over that bridge in the 1950s and 1960s...O WAIT!!! THAT'S THE GOOD PART!!! So just set it aside instead.

Tip the used AA cells out of the barrel, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

Slide two new AA cells into the barrel, orienting them so that their nipple-ends (+) positives face outward.

Screw the bezel back on - and there, you're done.
Aren't you glad that you didn't throw that bezel over the side of the Juneau-Douglas Bridge now?


This is what the Juneau-Douglas Bridge looks like...or what it lookED like anyway before it was replaced in 1976.


And this is what the bridge looks like now.

Unable to measure current usage due to how the product was constructed.



The flashlight appears to be reasonably sturdy. Ordinary flashlight accidents should not be enough to do it in. I wanted to administer the smack test on it (ten whacks against the concrete floor of a porch; five whacks against the side of the tailcap and five whacks against the side of the bezel), but since this is a loaner, this particular test will be foregone this time around. I know you like to see me try and break things, but "ain't" "gonna" happen today, folks.

Water-resistance will not be an issue here...if it falls next to the mailbox and the dog lifts his leg on it, just douche it off under the faucet or take the garden hose to it and keep going...good as new!
A rather beefy O-ring is present on the barrel where the bezel screws on; the unit also passed "The Suction Test" with flying colors.

Low mode uses PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) where the LED is rapidly pulsed. This was evident when the light was activated in low mode and then rapidly waved about.



Beam photograph on the test target at 12".
Measures 129,661mcd (low) and 8,580,110mcd (high).
Both measurements taken on a Meterman LM631 (now Amprobe LM631A) light meter.



Beam photograph on a wall at ~10 feet.



Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (high mode) in this flashlight; newest (03-10-15) spectrometer software settings used.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (high mode) in this flashlight; newest (03-10-15) spectrometer software settings used. Spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 430nm and 450nm to pinpoint native emission peak wavelength, which is 443.410nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at rogue2.txt


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (low mode) in this flashlight; newest (03-10-15) spectrometer software settings used.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (low mode) in this flashlight; newest (03-10-15) spectrometer software settings used. Spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 430nm and 450nm to pinpoint native emission peak wavelength, which is 441.640nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at rogue3.txt

USB2000 spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.


A beam cross-sectional analysis would normally appear here, but my poor defenseless helpless innocent ProMetric 8 Beam Cross-Sectional Analyser that I use for that test was destroyed by a nearby lightning strike in mid-July 2013.








TEST NOTES:
Test unit of this was loaned to me by somebody in the UK, and was received on the afternoon of 03-14-15.

Because it is a loaned item, the more brutal tests (e.g., "The Smack Test" and, "The Toliet Test") will not be performed on this product. I'm absolutely, positively, 100% certain that its owner would appreciate receiving it back with no dings or gouges in it and no desiccated rat pellets or yucky old cat pee inside the barrel.
Additionally, the "" icon will be appended to its listings on this website in fairly short order, indicating that I no longer have the unit at my disposal for any additional analyses or compartisons.


UPDATE: 00-00-00






PROS:
Bright for its size
Nice to look at - whether on or off
Reasonably durable construction
Water-resistant and even submersible to shallow depths


CONS:
PWM frequency is a bit on the slow side; may bother some users -- this is what nocked that last 5% of a star off


    MANUFACTURER: Unknown, for ICON in California
    PRODUCT TYPE: Small handheld flashlight
    LAMP TYPE: High-powered white LED
    No. OF LAMPS: 1
    BEAM TYPE: Medium spot w/wide corona
    SWITCH TYPE: Pushbutton on/mode change/off on tailcap
    CASE MATERIAL: Aluminum
    BEZEL: Metal; LED & optic protected by plastic window
    BATTERY: 2xAA cells
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
    WATER RESISTANT: Yes
    SUBMERSIBLE: Yes, to ~3 feet (1 meter)
    ACCESSORIES: 2xAA cells
    SIZE: 6.0" L
    WEIGHT: 158.0g (5.580 oz.)
    COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: China WARRANTY: 1 year

    PRODUCT RATING:

    Star Rating




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