Ive had my pathfinder for a couple of days now and have spent a bit of time with it.
Packaging - I love the packaging! If a person is going to pay a "premium " give em some stickers, make the packaging unique and personalize it with a hand written card. Nailed it!
The light - i love the physical size, weight, balance and how it feels in hand. It fits my pocket perfectly. The knurling is quite effective. Im also one that appreciates the thermal properties of Al.
Performance - The light has memory and restarts in the last mode used. While clicking through the modes, assuming it begins with "yellow" moonlight mode, it steps throught the sequence as follows, yellow moonlight, med yellow, high yellow, white moonlight, med white and lastly, high white. While transitioning from yellow light to white light, the yellow light stays on and mimics the mode of the white light. I don't know if that has any impact on the actual functional temperature seen by the eye.
The 2200k moonlight is amazing! I can move about the room while my wife sleeps without disturbing her. My aging eyes prefer a warmer light, indoors, and especially in moonlight. Turn it off and you still have your naturally dark adjusted eyeballs.
There is no snow or fog, I can't speak about the functionality of med and high yellow. However, I have no doubt that they would work as designed.
The 5000k moonlight is nice, when you need just a Lil bit more than the other moonlight.
Med white, where the light will likely live, works well. I'd estimate that the area illuminated is approx 30-35 ft in diameter.
High white, as well as high yellow, would be used briefly for high output due to it stepping down after approx 10 seconds. This I don't understand. If I wanna burn through a battery, let me!
Battery- The light arrives with a purple vapcell H10 button top. I like this particular battery and run it in my dc0 lights with conversion engines and reflectors, that's another thread... I cycled the battery acouple of times and then fully charged it. Once charged, I installed and turned the light on med white and let it run. I didn't pay as close attention as I probably should have, therefore I'll estimate at about 15min, the light, top to bottom, one end to the other, was quite warm. A lesser man may not have had the willpower to hold it. I didn't notice the light step down any, but the output did diminish eventually. I'll also estimate, somewhere around the 90min mark, the light began to cool down. I'll assume this was due to the diminishing output, that went unnoticed because it was simply laying on a table next to me in the middle of the afternoon. At 103 minutes, the light dropped to moonlight mode. I restarted the light and managed approx another 90 seconds before dropping into moonlight mode again. I don't know how many more times I could have done this. I excused the battery at this point.
My thoughts - My thoughts might not matter because I do not know the intricacies of the inner workings of pills, emitters, drivers, programming, and mcpcbs,,,,whatever that is. The knurling is very effective, regardless of the direction. Combined with a tight clip, it's probably gonna eat up some pockets. I wish it didn't have memory and always began in yellow moonlight mode. If you don't remember to leave it there and turn it on in the middle of the night while your wife sleeps, it will light up the whole room!!,,,,as it is intended. I also wish the high output lasted longer than 10 seconds. There likely is a good reason it doesnt, which i am unaware. So, I guess my only real complaint is that it'll probably eat jean pockets.
Long story short, I LIKE IT!
I tried to upload some pics and speak about each one, but I couldn't figure it out on my phone.....so here's the pic!
Any questions, ask away!
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