By any chance, do you happen to have one? I would be interested in beamshots…
As to working well…
I don’t have the polymer optics one. Does it work well? The way they de-focus it make the beam ugly, plain and simple. It may have nice benefits, but I agree it’s not working well, though I think that for some users it may actually be fine.
What if there was no rotation? The hotspot in the middle would disappear. As to other changes to the beam shape, I am unable to predict. So as far as I’m concerned, it may or may not work well.
Does the led-lenser work well?
You say they make great lenses, I believe you. So it should have a nice beam shape regardless of whether it’s zoomed in or out.
But they lose a huge part of frontal area and therefore just can’t be even semi-efficient when it comes to throw/size.
And personally, I don’t agree that something very inefficient is “working well”. Though I certainly think there are people with different priorities.
Yes MRsDNF, I’m well aware you made some of those P60 with screw in pill in some of your projects (I think that one in picture is taken from your customized P60 that belong to djozz now).
Iirc, last one that looks going to materialized is this project (he’s going to use screw in pill too, but sinner looks like already drop this project.
Looks like its dropped as it was 3.5 years ago.
I was going to get the above light built in quantity and sell as a host but it was going to cost to much and I didn’t think I’d sell any.
My thinking about this, if can have standard thread for hosts and pill and become popular enough, may be can become justification for more people to get one or two customized host that suitable for their liking.
I’m not saying current P60 without threading pill can’t handle heat good enough (I’m kind of on the side that believe as long as dtp mcpcb with good enough pill is enough as general), but with threading pill other than better heat transfer that may or may not affecting led durability and efficiency, it will give more solid feeling.
More than one time, I’m thinking you and other that have skill to make nice host and sophisticated modding, really is more suitable in “other” forum, but BLF still need you all to lighten up this forum
I would LOVE to see a BLF version of the Olight SMini. I really want a small EDC running whatever LED I want and a UI like Crescendo or Narsil. In fact, I’ve been looking for suitable hosts for something similar for the past week, and the best I can find are significantly larger, with outdated electronics, and cost almost as much as the D4. I’ve basically resigned myself to the fact that the D4 with the shorty tube is going to be tough to beat.
But something like the S Mini that I can flash and swap LED’s on has me extremely interested.
There is also a clone of the OTR light even cheaper! It has a terrible UI, but had a regular price of $15. That might make for a suitable host. I had only seen it on Aliexpress, but now it shows the product is no longer available.
Someone here, I think it was Tom E, took an M3 and piggy backed a new driver on it and had it running Narsil. It was very cool.
The usb port is on the opposite side of the switch.
The U16 should have everthing the M3 has including the red led under the switch. It’s a bit hard to see though, since the switch cover is white. I could just barely see the red light when my battery was low.
I guess they have it back again, but the priced has doubled
I had that light under sight, but, as you said, the UI is not that great and I have no means to reflash it, so I ended up buying a Olight S1R Baton.
BTW, in a future project, I would love to have a BLF light with these characteristics, small, pocketable, taking 16430 and 18350 batteries, a good driver, with a decent driver (Narsil or Anduril; don’t own any with these, but I love the concept of a “progressive driver”).
Yup, it is not so budget as it was! The price literally doubled in some weeks! :person_facepalming:
I’m not sure about it, but seeing these lights, the are probably getting the hosts in the same place. Even the photos in the specs are very similar. However, Jaxmnve seems to be a “Store”, and OTR a “company”, with all that implies.
So, probably working with OTR could be more fruitful as they are a more recognized seller/manufacturer.
I’d love to have a light with that firmware on my hands!! It would be simply great!!
About the M1, the characteristics are the same of M3 (of what I recall) except that it is a tailclickie! The host seems taller because of the click itself, but its also a small light.
Yes that small OTR clone with charging is doubled in price now
It arrived
Nice tint, way more easy to operate then the Olight it clones, both switch presses easier and a simple click for next mode had my preference over Olights click and hold. Cell indicator. Charging seems OK, the cell has no branding, measure 644mAh and lowest IR I saw was 69.
I like it, it is a little bit bigger then the Olight.
For the same price I would still go for this one and not get the Olight.
Clip is good.
A BLF special with nice UI should have some more zing to it IMHO. But not a lot of room to work with, both space and price doesn’t allow that.