Micro-Textured Lens for Solarforce Flashlights

I’m in!

I’m impressed it didn’t reduce output. So is this something you’ve found? Designed? Modified?

I’m in!

What diameter are these lenses? Can they be used in a light like a 20mm Convoy ? If so, I’d like to try one. Can compare one with and without the lens.

edit… I see now, solarforce lens are 28mm

Modified is probably the best description.
I buy my base material from a company that specializes in high performance HD plastics, so the base material is sourced from them.
I have another company do a vapor deposition coating. The company doing the VD coating makes touch screens. Their coating process focuses on durability and cleanability.
The base material is true ‘optical quality’ and very scratch resistant…the coatings, along with very high AR properties also are smudge resistant (on one side) since the coatings are meant to be touched.

The base material for the new MT lens has only a very fine texture…the texture is a micro-ripple.

A lens can eaisly over diffuse light because of it’s position (distance) in respect to the emitter, so the texture must be incredibly fine.

If you think about rippled glass vs frosted glass…the rippled glass only changes the direction of light but is still complete clear. Frosted glass will diffuse light and block a great deal depending on the amount of frosting.

If this lens is placed directly against a printed page, it will look completely clear. As it is moved away from the surface, the diffusion will become noticeable.

In the photo, all of the lenses are about 1.25” from the printed page.

I’ve got several P60s solarforce lights and I’d love to review the lens. My daily driver is a solarforce P1 so I can give it a good workout in that and other lights. I also have rudimentary lumen/lux measuring capabilities, and more advanced photography capabilities if you want pics.

Now patent it for flashlight use.

I have several 6p (both surefire & solarforce) but I’m not in US.
So I will wait until this lens availabe on your store :slight_smile:

I’d like to try one please! :nerd_face: :+1:

I’ve always been a huge Solarforce and Surefire C format flashlights and have many!

excellent, looks like a lighter (more professional ) version of the DC fix (which it s what i have on my solarforce).

I got the lens yesterday and I was able to try it on one of my solarforce lights with an xhp70 led. It definitely reduces artifacts in the beam and helps reduce the black doughnut in the center of the led. I noticed that it’s more noticeable when I have the light on high rather than on the low setting. I tried the lens on both OP and smooth reflectors and it helps with a better beam on both reflectors. I was only able to try it on a white wall and didn’t have time to try the light outside to see if there was any noticeable differences in throw to the naked eye. I’ll report back once I have more time to play with the lens. But so far it seems like pflexpro has found another trick to improve upon p60 lights.

PFP,

Very curious about your MT lens. I have several ‘mule’ P60 drop-ins using XR, XP, and N219 emitters. I’ve tried diffusion plastic, tuf-film spray and textured plastic insert to smooth the light, all w/ varying degrees of success. I’ll watch for test updates and pricing. Good luck w/ your product.

Got mine in the other day and it works wonders. I tested it in my Solarforce with a hard driven 219C and SMO reflector. The rings in this light have always driven me nuts, this all but removes them and I do not see an impact on the amount of light out the front. I will try and capture good pics this weekend of the results.

Just got mine today, haven’t had a chance to test it yet… Will get to it in the next few days for sure!

It’d be great if these could also be made in the 21mm(?) Tube light size.

My guess is you’re looking for something for a triple.
I could have a sheet cut at 20.25mm for the S2/S2+ lights but it would be in a lot of lenses. If there is enough interest, it would be no problem.

Have you held it in front of a triple to see what it looks like?

Not necessarily a triple. I think it would have more impact on a single emitter light, like my EagleEye X2R. I already use frosted (narrow) optics on my triples and quads, so I don’t think there would be much benefit seen there for me.

Simon is selling the SMO reflectors now for the S2+. You were saying they probably wouldn’t be effective with the OP reflectors.

It would be very effective with the S2+ SMO optics. I have a couple of them now and they would improve with this. And, they would still have more throw and a more concentrated hotspot than the OP reflector! The Olight S10R would also like this glass in front of it.

That’s good news…but where’s the smooth reflector for the M1?

When I have more lenses cut, I will order some for the S2/S2+

If the price is reasonable, I would love to have this lens for all of my reflectored S2+ and C8 lights.

Yesterday I put together a S2+ with SMO reflector + XP-L HI and there are some unwanted artifacts in the center spot, same with the new clear C8 which doesn’t produce a beam as clean as the older v3 batches, it has an ugly corona and the spot is not as smooth, it also produces about 5% less kcd which is a bit disappointing. The best C8 reflector I’ve used was from a thorfire C8S.