This light is going to get a lot of use, I appreciate the taper under the clip.
I used to just let them bounce around in the bottom of my pocket, a straight light across a curved leg looked like I was carrying a roll of quarters all the time.
Gunga convinced me to start using a clip and now it’s a deal-breaker for my EDC. Hands get dirty at work and I can just slip out my clipped light with 2 fingers without dirtying up my pants.
It’s a little thing, but when it’s dragging out of your pants 20x a day the wear adds up.
The design looks similar to HDS but a fraction of the cost, moddable, native 18650 support, and comes with an even better UI. (IMHO)
I’ve been a fan of HDS, Liteflux, and Novatac because of the flexibility programmable lights offer and, more importantly, they have onboard battery protection.
It’s probably irrational for onboard protection to be such an issue for me, but fewer points of failure and not having that strip of doom going down the side of my battery eases my mind.
With any luck this will be the first in a whole lineup of lights like this. One for all of the li-ion battery sizes!!
Yes, it is about the same size as some older CR123-based lights. I see 94.0 x 25.4 mm listed for the HDS Rotary CR123, and the FW3A is 94.8 x 25.5 mm. So almost identical size, but it uses 1x18650 instead of 1xCR123. Much greater battery capacity and much higher maximum brightness.
● I only have them behind a 10507 optic and that looks good: big smooth hotspot (1.5 times the size of 219B in that same optic), despite the large die no weird squares like XP-L Hi.
● no idea, the die and dome are quite large so the optic may not be as efficient as with small leds, and the light is very spread out.
The triple 10507 optic light (Jaxman E2L) with 4000K 90 CRI LH351D on an Aspire 18350 cell does 1800 lumen, on a 18650 cell a bit more, but you loose a bit again with the frosted optic.
In general in your table the outputs are optimistic, in a small light like the FW3A you only get such numbers in the first second, maybe.
I expect 4000+ lm with LH351D CRI70 5000k, 3400+ lm with LH351D CRI90 5000k in a clear optic. 12A current draw. For 10511 CRI90 prediction drops to 3300+, CRI70 stays.
Warmer tints are less efficient. These numbers are rather conservative, mostly because current draw should be higher.
1.5 cd/lm with 10511 and 2 with 10507? That’s very imprecise.
I have a triple samsung 4000k in a Convoy S2 mod. They are very nice and give a huge hot spot. I have to get which optic and specific emitter are being used. Not as pink as an XP-L Hi. Would find these to be an awesome choice for this light! Extremely smooth beam and minimal weird outer distortion.
Guys, it’s way to early to actually produce this light. It was predicted for 2018. To have it produced before 2019 would be to shatter reality as we know it.