I am in the market for a new edc and that ti raw finish looks so nice.
But will it be brighter than my convoy s2+ 2800 mah when run for more than a few minutes straight? Or will it dim down and not give me the output I would like
If he can make a profit out of the TI versions, that’s a good business move, there is a market for TI bling even with flashlights were it’s not ideal to say the least, back in CPF those TI flashlight commanded several hundreds of $ price from MCgizmo, Tain, or thousands from data and sold like hot cakes despite the same endless discussions about the inferiority of TI for flashlight application.
I myself have a TI fetish , not to the point of buying a TI flashlight (wich would go against engineering logic) but a lot of people do.
It doesn’t make the alu version disappear so everyone wins.
I guess my question is why wouldn’t ever manufacturer on the planet offer lights in the raw even before anodized since it’s cheaper .I’m guessing there’s a bigger market for it than they think .
heheheh, sure, all on point (except ramping, which is actually great IMO)
I found it funny at first when I arrived at BLF that some lights were this high priced, until I ended up following enough external links to actual luxury or faux-luxury flashlights to realize what happens in the “outside”. Plus people show no lack of love for brands like convoy that are very good quality and very fairly priced. I’m ok with a titanium 10 minute hot rod at this price, it’s just not for me. I do have 2 regular emisar flashlights and am waiting on the third thou
It is a common misconception that higher thermal capacity is bad because the item will need more time to cool down.
Higher thermal capacity mean that the item will take longer both to heat up and to cool down. If TC is increased and other variables unchanged, a light with higher TC will always have strictly lower average temperature.
A flashlight uses 3 cooling mechanisms:
radiation to air
conduction to user hand
wind (with fallback to convection when wind is unavailable)
I have no idea how important is each of them. Would love to know.
Efficiency of each of them depends strongly on surface temperature.
But when temperature is software-limited, a limit on temperature becomes a limit on power.
The limit is not the same for different materials because:
they have different emissivity
they have different conductivity and thus surface temperatures are less even
Emissivity of oxidized copper is about the same as anodized alu. Polished Cu is worse, polished Ti even more so. I failed to find numbers for oxidized Ti.
In a pure copper light surface temps would be more even than in alu one.
In Cu-Ti the head will be much hotter than the rest.
With properly tuned heat regulation, peak head temperature would be the same as in alu light. Sustained output would be lower. But it’s possible that Hank didn’t re-tweak the thermal algorithm to fit the new host better.
BTW one interesting development would be to increase cooling by upping surface temperature significantly above what user can touch painlessly….in areas that user can’t touch. Like bottoms of deep fins. I guess it wouldn’t make a big difference, but maybe I’m wrong.
For the durability of titanium, especially the threads it’s worth a bit of a draw back in heat. Its going to be in my hand anyway, my hands will absorb heat slower that titanium can move it.
Just like my hands absorb heat slower than aluminium can move it.
But aluminium is softer than titanium, and will wear faster i imagine.