Barbarin
Flashlight Enthusiast
Hello Rebels,
As I was gladly impressed by the opinions of the owners of the first series I decided to explore a little bit more this path of the superpower palm sized lights.
First improvement was the "screw-in" modules. They are now made from aluminun alloy, which is more than enough for short runtimes, for bigger lights or for smaller LEDs. We decided to go for copper. More expensive, but way better.
Second. On this kind of lights with short runtimes on high it would be more necessary than even a two stage tailcap. On momentary you will always have full power (2800 mA to the LED), but twisting the tailcap you can get the constant low mode (250 mA to the LED) before getting the constant high mode. So, this tailcap is being made right now, with six parallel resistors to dissipate power even better.
Third, body redesign. We are increasing the surface of the light to improve thermal dissipation while on constant.
Fourth, reflector redesign. On such a small reflector for such a big die is complicated if not impossible to get a good throw avoiding some kind of hole. Well, all I can say is hat we are proud of what we get, but don't expect a thrower. (Will post pictures this week).
Fifth, Li-ION 18650 compatibility. Yes, we all now that firing a light that is expensive to switch on has its own feeling... is luxurious, a kind of shin... But for a production model it was a must to give our users the possibility of using it very often not having to ask for a second mortgage, so we changed the electronics inside the driver to allow 18650's. We are going to supply Emoli cells.
Now, I would like to know your thoughts about this!
Javier
As I was gladly impressed by the opinions of the owners of the first series I decided to explore a little bit more this path of the superpower palm sized lights.
First improvement was the "screw-in" modules. They are now made from aluminun alloy, which is more than enough for short runtimes, for bigger lights or for smaller LEDs. We decided to go for copper. More expensive, but way better.
Second. On this kind of lights with short runtimes on high it would be more necessary than even a two stage tailcap. On momentary you will always have full power (2800 mA to the LED), but twisting the tailcap you can get the constant low mode (250 mA to the LED) before getting the constant high mode. So, this tailcap is being made right now, with six parallel resistors to dissipate power even better.
Third, body redesign. We are increasing the surface of the light to improve thermal dissipation while on constant.
Fourth, reflector redesign. On such a small reflector for such a big die is complicated if not impossible to get a good throw avoiding some kind of hole. Well, all I can say is hat we are proud of what we get, but don't expect a thrower. (Will post pictures this week).
Fifth, Li-ION 18650 compatibility. Yes, we all now that firing a light that is expensive to switch on has its own feeling... is luxurious, a kind of shin... But for a production model it was a must to give our users the possibility of using it very often not having to ask for a second mortgage, so we changed the electronics inside the driver to allow 18650's. We are going to supply Emoli cells.
Now, I would like to know your thoughts about this!
Javier
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