modamag
Flashlight Enthusiast
Introducing Drake - The "innie winnie little" light (Draco), little sister, that breath out flame. :roar:
As an ongoing effort to seek the holly grail of personal portable lighting this is the latest solution we (me, you, and CPF) have come up with.
=== Improvement #1 ===
Drake body tube using 10180 Li-Ion, a 36% reduction in battery size.
The cost for the Drake body tube is going to be ~$35/chrome & ~$100/Titanium. As for the Turbo+ price is yet to be determine.
If there is enough interest I will produce some in Chrome & various flavors of Titanium.
=== Improvement #2 ===
{picture to be release}
"Turbo+ Head" integrating a Seoul P4 to modified McR18 for a pocket thrower
=== Brief Timeline History ===
11/03 - NLS Introduction, the inspirational keychain light from tvodrd
02/05 - Production interest
05/06 - Draco introduction
06/06 - Prototype machined
07/06 - Alpha & Beta testing
11/06 - Titanium, introduction of latest cutting tool coating TiN / TiCN / AlTiN
12/06 - "Rocket" upgrade with Cree XRE
12/06 - Improved v2 FluPIC UI
03/07 - Draco v1.1 & tritium enhancement
04/07 - Drake introduction
=== FAQ ===
So what's the difference between this and Draco?
The tradeoff are apparent. Draco will be brighter @ 160 lumens (out the front) while Drake will only be ~100 lumens OTF. Drake be a little shorter to ofset the lack of lumens.
All of this while the runtime remains relatively the same.
As an ongoing effort to seek the holly grail of personal portable lighting this is the latest solution we (me, you, and CPF) have come up with.
=== Improvement #1 ===
Drake body tube using 10180 Li-Ion, a 36% reduction in battery size.
The cost for the Drake body tube is going to be ~$35/chrome & ~$100/Titanium. As for the Turbo+ price is yet to be determine.
If there is enough interest I will produce some in Chrome & various flavors of Titanium.
=== Improvement #2 ===
{picture to be release}
"Turbo+ Head" integrating a Seoul P4 to modified McR18 for a pocket thrower
=== Brief Timeline History ===
11/03 - NLS Introduction, the inspirational keychain light from tvodrd
02/05 - Production interest
05/06 - Draco introduction
06/06 - Prototype machined
07/06 - Alpha & Beta testing
11/06 - Titanium, introduction of latest cutting tool coating TiN / TiCN / AlTiN
12/06 - "Rocket" upgrade with Cree XRE
12/06 - Improved v2 FluPIC UI
03/07 - Draco v1.1 & tritium enhancement
04/07 - Drake introduction
=== FAQ ===
So what's the difference between this and Draco?
The tradeoff are apparent. Draco will be brighter @ 160 lumens (out the front) while Drake will only be ~100 lumens OTF. Drake be a little shorter to ofset the lack of lumens.
All of this while the runtime remains relatively the same.
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