ENEDED

Interested

Any word on when the GB is happening?

I like the look of this one, am already getting excited about it and almost paid full price plus expedited shipping to go ahead and get one! :slight_smile:

Not a one of those facts has anything to do with mode spacing or the number of levels. It’s not like achieving those characteristics limit you to only 4 brightness levels and dictate the mode spacing the light has. Just because some aspects of the performance are evolutionary and new doesn’t mean we should have to accept needless compromises elsewhere.

This is like arguing that a 3 speed automatic transmission is acceptable in a modern sports car because other technical aspects of the car’s performance weren’t possible 20 years ago. :person_facepalming:

Loosing perspective. This light is not the tactical pro, It’s a toy. I say this because it’s all FLOOD and too small for turbo heat dissipation. Throw only through sheer output. Being a floodlight only a few modes are needed; room, garage, backyard and across the road. That’s low, medium, high and turbo. I don’t want anymore modes. No clicking though the over complicated or extended menu.

Very relevant, as we didn’t have 2500 lumens in a light to space out the modes by. We didn’t have drivers to have modes, for that matter. On/off. Now we want it all.

5000mAh capacity gives us options we didn’t have then, for sure. How can you say it’s not relevant?

Mode spacing and power of levels is as much about preserving battery life as anything else, the visible light produced is all a perception of your eyes and of course your eyes adjust to available light, how else did we live with 20 lumen incan MagLites all those years?

And for the transmission, give me 3 or 4 speeds over 10 any day. I got tired of shifting 10 speeds a LONG time ago! But seriously, for every driver that is designed, there’s a gazillion ways to arrange the modes. Which do you go with? This light is made by and probably for an end user, a guy that likes lights. He likes the high end, obviously, and tossed in a low mode for the folks that have argued it so highly. I build my own drivers, set up the spacing to suit me, and if I were selling lights I’d still put a driver in it with spacing that I personally like, if someone didn’t like my own choices they could change them or pass it up. You cannot please everyone, you just can’t. At the end of the day, you DO have to accept how the light is made. Your choice whether or not to buy it. Even your choice whether or not to debate it’s merits, but that won’t get the light changed.

As has already been said, a floody light has a lower apparent brightness level based purely on the coverage it provides. I’m sure that had a lot to do with the choice in mode spacing here. For an idea how this works, take the reflector off a preferred light and shine it in mule configuration, bare emitter. That spot being gone changes things a lot! It’s still making the same output as it was before, bit visually it’s nowhere near the same.

Somewhere along the way BLF has become demanding. Where we used to be all about modding a budget light, now everyone seems to think manufacturers are duty bound to answer to our every whim. What happened to modding? Fix it up exactly how you like it, have fun with it, then there’s some pride in knowing you accomplished what the manufacturer couldn’t.

interested

If you dont like the mode spacing…dont buy it.
I could care less. I’m going to have fun……fun!..this light game is all about fun:)) too me anyway:)) WOOHOO!

chooma, can you imagine this little 7 emitter light with ramping on an FET driver? Oh Yeah Baby! :smiley:

Wonder if the mcpcb is DTP copper? Maybe pull the XP-G2’s and put XP-L W2 1D’s on it? :smiling_imp: How high might it go? 4000? 5? :smiley:

I don’t see a problem with the mode spacing, 250lm in a floody light is like 100lm in a throwy light, with many times the coverage of course. And yeah I agree this is a fun light, it is all about putting as much as light as possible in the tiniest size possible. :smiley:

Waiting for BLF A6 driver swap how-to.

Or if this is a 4S2P driver, awaiting 7x XHP35 swap…. :smiley:

7 XHP-35’s? OMG! Who would do such a thing?

DB, do you accept cashier’s check, money order, or paypal? :smiley:

16000 glorious lumens for 3 seconds. ’Bout all I’d need her for!

SEE!!! BOOM!!! :laughing:

Interested pending review and proven reliable

And we just lost Dale again.

oh wow 7 of them inside one.
count me in!

Will send out pm in a while. [quote=keithd] Any word on when the GB is happening? [/quote]

Interested.

bought!

(I’ll never learn!, I should stop buying first version DQG’s, let’s hope there’s no design flaws to be ironed out this time. DQG’s are just too tempting! :slight_smile: )