The new Zanflare T1 18650 lantern has tint ramping from 2700k to 6500k. And brightness ramping with memory. It remembers both the tint and brightness. The button on top is a touch sensor. About the size of a Fenix CL25R
That would be fine also. What would you suggest for high CRI emitters?
I’m usually a 4000k to 5000k kind of guy, but for a lantern I thought 3000k might be nice.
The 351D is one of the latest and greatest high CRI emitters and happens to come in 3000k and 4000k.
I also envisioned the emitters spaced around the globe with something like the Q8 LED board and you might want emitters that appear similar (not too different in color).
I’m more of a fan of the 5000K CCT, and in a lantern I guess I would like the 4000K ~ 5000K range, but with variable CCT, I’d be down for much warmer emitters, as long as I still have the option to go to 5000K
Yeah, that’s me too. In fact, with the variable CCT option, I’d probably want as wide a spectrum as possible. But, then, as FBsLights indicated above, the lantern would “look” better when all lit if the LEDs were closer in CCT. I think 3000k to 5000k will be a good range.
Also, I just found out in the new poll for Your favorite CCT for EDC that Clemence even has 2000k HI CRI emitters available. But he says they’re expensive and not very efficient.
If the light of the leds are blended well, which should be easy with the current design of the lantern, it hardly matters how far the CCT’s of the leds are apart, the spectra just add up to produce a fine intermediate spectrum.
Going to take my name off the interest list I think. This looks like a great project and I hope it comes to fruition soon, but I don’t want to wait forever, and the prohibitive cost of cells in Canada doesn’t make this practical for me.
Sorry to say you were not on the interest list, in spite of being asked to be put on there.
I started updating the interest list on May 16, with Phlip at interest number 757. I think I have gotten everyone added since that time, about 60 lanterns worth.
Hope there are not too many others that have been left off, but you can always check the list on the links below. They cover everyone since day 1.