Today (its July 7th in Germany) I received my beautyful natural HA-III from Khoo, who had sent me shipping notice on July 1st.
Thats pretty fast for all the airmail way from Malaysia to Germany incl. resting time at customs and so on.
Khoo added two gifts for all of us, who had to wait a little bit longer due to the Cree R2 shortage of LiteFlux: an Energizer Lithium primary L91 and a thick rubber ring, whose purpose actually isn't clear to me...
Anybody here with a good guess? Anything 'tactical'?
Anyway: that again shows Khoo's care for his customer relationships, although the delay definitely wasn't his fault. Cheers to Khoo!
I already called my LF5XT a beauty: it is, in any sense. The finish is excellent; the beam is - I really don't find the right expression for this: GORGEOUS! No Cree rings, a fully filled circle of pure white with no blueish tendency whatsoever. I had never thought of any Cree lamp being able to produce such an overwhelming good spill.
The switch is a pleasure to use, compared to that oldish legacy rubber forward or reverse clickies, some of the elder members here might remember. :thinking:
The UI is no miracle at all - I had it all in less than 10 minutes and can only state: it works perfectly.
Last not least the very best: I also read some disturbing mails about flickering and whining sounds. As I'm quite sensitive to both 'bad behaviours', let me give you an 'all clear signal': there is no flickering at least on the lithium primary Energizer, nor on 1.5V Alcalines, nor on 1.2V Eneloops! Haven't tried the AW 14500 yet.
For the 'whining sound': on the factory default 50% Mode, I had to place the light into direct contact to my ear bones, to register a very, very silent tone of maybe 5 to 8 kHz. One inch away from my ear: no sound to be heard. PH (press hold) to maximum output: no sound wether in direct contact nor in any distance.
So for me there is really NO problem with any of the forementioned issues.
As a summary I can simply state: I finally have found the ultimate AA light.
Full stop.
Enjoy,
Norbert