I received my Zmax V2 today and here is my first thought about it.
The short cap and the extended cap both have the long spring, my chrome v1 short cap came with a short spring, I will fix that later.
If I change from stacked 18350's to 18650 and do it fast enough that the memory is held it doesn't fire but displays "LOU".
After reducing wattage setting it fires for a moment at the higher setting.
They fixed the threads problem nicely, fit and finish is much improved.
Regarding 8th menu, works as they say it does.
Pretty nice but I will probably continue using my Vmax v1 as my workhorse.
Do I like it, yes, this is how it should have been done the first time but then it wouldn't have generated all the buzz about being "beastly"
Additional: The body and battery cap is magnetic but the 510 end appears to be of a higher grade stainless as it is not magnetic. I thought it might be plated brass but that is not the case, I'm impressed.
I won't be wearing those threads out like I eventually do with the 510 shorty's.
I pulled battery out of tube and if its magnetic its hard to tell for me.
The sping end cap i can pull it across the desk with magnet but i took spring out and i could not pull cap at all with the magnet. Seems the spring itself was making this happen and the spring is very attracted to the magnet alone.
The standard end cap and the extended end cap have same size spring in mine, i may go to hardware store with the spring and see if i can find same diameter spring and cut it to fit height wise with my button top efests as im current using the extended cap.
The flat top efest's i have fit better than the button tops in the standard cap but i will feel more comfortable using them in the standard cap after a trip to the hardware store tomorrow.
With the extended cap there is no pressure exerted when i screw it down with the button tops and will try to get the same with the standard cap and the flat tops batteries i have .
Easy way would be to just use my dremel cut off wheel and make the original spring shorter but as cheap as the springs are i'll just play around with a new one and keep the original one in the z-box it came in.