Surefire's new line of lights looks like they have abandoned drop ins as a way of updating their existing lights. Obviously it makes sense for them to design a completely new bezel unit or new even a new light as it guarantees that their products will perform as intended and dissipate heat from the LED's to ensure that their product is reliable as possible. Unfortunately this will mean that existing owners will either have to buy a new bezel or completely new flashlight if they wish to have something better or more powerful for their existing flashlights.
Personally I think it will be quite a long time before the majority of LEO's & civillian Surefire owners replace their existing light simply to see a modest increase in performance from the new Surefire products. I dont necessarily see this as a problem as it allows other drop in manufacturers to step up to the plate and continue to sell their products or even deveop new ones for those Surefire owners who want an improvement over the exisiting Surefire drop ins. Perhaps though the sad bit about this is it Surefire has made it much more difficult for people to play lego and modify their lights with other manufacturers products. Of course this may be a deliberate policy or simply due to design constraints but it is none the less (in my own opinion) a sad development.
Personally I like the ability to easily replace the LED and driver in my lights and consider this a bonus. Hopefully some manufacturers will see this as an opportunity to develop new lights which are more modular in nature and will continue to make drop ins or pills to allow lights to be upgraded rather than replaced b y a complete light?
Personally I think it will be quite a long time before the majority of LEO's & civillian Surefire owners replace their existing light simply to see a modest increase in performance from the new Surefire products. I dont necessarily see this as a problem as it allows other drop in manufacturers to step up to the plate and continue to sell their products or even deveop new ones for those Surefire owners who want an improvement over the exisiting Surefire drop ins. Perhaps though the sad bit about this is it Surefire has made it much more difficult for people to play lego and modify their lights with other manufacturers products. Of course this may be a deliberate policy or simply due to design constraints but it is none the less (in my own opinion) a sad development.
Personally I like the ability to easily replace the LED and driver in my lights and consider this a bonus. Hopefully some manufacturers will see this as an opportunity to develop new lights which are more modular in nature and will continue to make drop ins or pills to allow lights to be upgraded rather than replaced b y a complete light?
