So of course, I just had to go to the store and look around. That quick look cost me $50! The little D4 in cyan is beautiful, my wife’ll love it! So I got it with an 18350 tube and the high CRI Nichia 219’s. And also ordered a pocket clip… won’t fit the shorty but it’ll fit my D1 right? So I have a little more than a month before her birthday, should make it in time…
It’d be great to talk Hank into doing a deep purple run, I mean, who else does it? Aside from the big Maglite’s I don’t remember ever seeing a deep purple ano on a light. Sure is pretty when done right!
Thanks Joey. The Sinner Ti EDC 18350 with the flamed rainbow of colors I traded off in a deal on an Alienware laptop, Soldier returned home, more or less gave it to him.
The Mokume Gane in Nickel Silver and Cu will be with me to my grave.
lol, don’t know about the dots but I can take it Polka dancing…
When I did that Titanium Sinner, I sanded it, cleaned it with denatured alcohol and never touched it before the flame hit it. Where those streaks and dots came from is beyond me. But it sure looked neat, wish I knew why it did it so I could do it again!
It’s funny you mention that, since I have my D1S right next to my Z1 to remind me to compare them.
The D1S is slightly shorter and slightly narrower, but has a wider optic. My Z1 throws farther, but it’s using a de-domed XP-G2 while the D1S uses XP-L HI… so of course the XP-G2 light throws farther. With the emitters swapped, it should be the other way around.
With the 18350 tube, the D1S is surprisingly balanced since the front third is mostly air. It looks ridiculous, but it’d be cool to have a 120-130 kcd thrower that small. However, I confirmed that the D1S is not compatible with the shorty tubes and is intended for only 18650 cells.
I got to try it outside, and the D1S has a really nice beam outdoors. The hotspot illuminates things pretty far away, while a relatively bright and narrow corona provides a nice amount of context. This is different than the D1, which mostly just has a wider hotspot and a dim spill area without much corona… or the D4, which has an even wider hotspot with bright pinwheel-shaped corona and virtually no spill.
The Z1, of course, is just the hotspot with absolutely nothing else, so its use is more specialized. It’s good for scaring away owls on the roof without shining light into any nearby windows.
I’ll have to get whitewall shots to show the beam shapes.