I think a lot of you guys completely missed the point of the discussion I was trying to get started. I simply threw the Storm of Ra into this thread, because someone mentioned building a thrower with XHP70.2. I wanted to show that it is possible to build a flashlight that throws far with an XHP70.2 in it. I know the Storm of Ra’s build quality is the best, but it is a working light that has bigger throw than the former throw king, the TN42.
I think maybe we can incorporate some of what those guys did with the Storm of Ra, into the MF03?
I don’t know about all of you but I would love to have a flashlight that can output great lumens, has active cooling and throws far. If I have to pay more for quality, I really don’t mind, as long as the built quality, specs, and most importantly, the performance is there.
Did anyone say 2-mile long distance throw with 8000 lumens in the beam? I can always dream.
This is 2 completely different types of light. The Storm is an aspheric thrower, while the MF03 is a multi emitter flooder. Plus the MF03 is already past the design phase and they are already testing prototypes. Anything useful from the Storm will have to wait for a different flashlight design.
Are they working with any of the BLF driver wizards for this one? It’d be nice to get a great firmware UI to go with that dual button physical UI, and it’d be one less thing they could screw up.
Wow, that changes things. I guess the xhp35 uses a deep reflector in the middle of the head to give the light some throw and the 70.2 are all around the edge? That sounds pretty strange.
A 30Klumen light must dissipate a huge amount of heat and care must be taken in getting it away from the leds. In the design pictured in the OP there is some nice deep fins (but only a fraction of the surface area needed to dissipate the close to 200W of heat, as all big-lumen lights this light needs to stepdown fast) but they neglected the most important thing with these power levels: spreading the heat over the body as fast as possible so that the heat can actually get to those fins (and further over the body). You need a heat highway and they made a bottleneck just under the leds. The result is unneeded fast heating up near the leds and shorter time in Turbo. In my view they can buy significant turbo-time if they sacrifice some finning near the led-shelf for body-material, like this:
as it has a 2S/4P battery compartment the active heat path at the base of the shelf has at least a diameter of 45mm, this is well enough to conduct 1000W of heat, the fins are really thick, no need to widen the head as you show
the LEDs wont be sittingh at the edge of the light like the X80, head is bigger and less LEDs, so they more more to center
How are you supposed to turn it on with an overhand or reverse grip with the light by your shoulder? This is how I use my L6, but this light has a weird finger cutout preventing this.
The ugly grenade style battery tube. The 4 ugly flat cutouts on the battery tube. The big, diagonal slices on the head. The screws holding the switch cover in place.
What happened to the sexy looks of the earlier MF01 and MF02? Did they hire the designer that Haikelite fired after he designed their MT03 and MT07? I see a lot of similarities.
I know they are trying to save weight by cutting a lot of material out, but geez, don’t turn it into a ugly monstrosity only a few will want to buy. So far these teaser pics make the Imalent it’s competing against look like a beauty queen.
