Yeah, pretty much. Nobody had even heard of it until a couple weeks before the first batch was finished.
I may have to see if I can get Hank to participate on BLF a bit more, and tell people in advance when something cool is coming up. Itād probably sell better if people knew it existed.
TK if you happen to speak with Hank, would you mind asking if he has any idea when his Emisar D1s compact thrower is to be released? Tell him inquiring flashaholics want to know:-)
I just checked mountains website again and it appears the price has increased by five dollars to 40$ for the non xpl hi versions (xpl hi is now 58:money_mouth_face:. Perhaps because of how awesome this new firmware is. Certainly worth the price as far as I am concerned.
Why not offer a pre-order on the site (http://intl-outdoor.com ), so we donāt have to keep checking it several times a day for the arrival of the D4?
Tactical (momentary) mode makes it act like a 1-mode light which is only on while the button is pressed.
Mostly.
It can still access battcheck and beacon and stuff from that mode. Normally Iād expect a momentary mode to get āstuckā once entered, so that the only way to exit is to loosen and tighten the tailcap, or to have only one button-press sequence which does anything special ā a sequence used to exit the mode. But this one also has battcheck on triple click, lockout, etc. So if you do Morse code too fast it could start blinking out the voltage.
I thought it was weird, but the changelog suggests it was done that way on purpose, so I left it alone. I wasnāt a part of the original design discussions, so I donāt know why a lot of things were done.
Thanks, but most of it was Tom. I only added thermal regulation and some UI tweaks:
I suspect the extra $5 at MTNElectronics is due to Richard reflashing to version 2. This takes time, and time is money. $5 is very cheap to open up the light, reflash it, test it, reassemble. Weāre all lucky Richard doesnāt make us pay for his BAR examā¦
Cheapest monies you ever spent dealing with a lawyerā¦ Guaranteed!
Iām not a fan of solid copper heads like on the Manker lights.
Copper is very heavy. It sits solid in the pocket and I feel it when I walk. I find my manker E14 and E14 II to simply be too heavy for pocket EDC.
Itās even worse for side-switch lights. Having a one-piece copper head is great at getting heat away from the LED to the outside of the head. But itās counterproductive when doing so means that the head of the light instantly gets burning hot to the touch right where the controls are.
Aluminum is worse at transferring heat than copper, but frankly Iād rather have the LED get hotter and allow me to run the light longer before the exterior of the light gets too hot to touch. LEDs are tough and they can take a lot more heat than my thumb can.
I have no idea what some people nowadayās would have done had they lived in the mid to late 1800ās. Few bills for currency, heavy silver coinage with the weight of Gold if you were fortunate enough to be rich. A few gold pieces in the pocket, to go with the pocket watch and heavy gold chain it was on, a fellow really needed those suspenders! I guess he could then pay someone to wear a carbide lantern for lightā¦ā¦