FW3A, a TLF/BLF EDC flashlight - SST-20 available, coupon codes public

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Put me down for 2 lights. I like where this threads been going the last few months.

From UK (Royal Mail) I can post to USA in 5-7 days for:

20 grams £1.45
100 grams £2.25
2 kilos £13.30

How does that compare ?

When I did a trial shop at digikey for ten LEDs thinking to send them to djozz, they quoted nearly $60 for shipping. Which is ludicrous. And I have to pay duty on the total price including shipping, plus a handling fee of about £8 (there is no escape from duty on USA imports here, it’s a stitch-up between the monopoly US couriers and their counterparts in the UK. Even when the value is below the threshold for personal importation).

It is a real impediment to trade.

Whereas my Chinese stuff always sails through, and if it is from Banggood there is a decent chance it will ship from the EU warehouse (which is in the UK) meaning I get it in 2 days, with no worries. And not using subsidised China post, good old Royal Mail. My MF-01 purchase was a shining example, I had it a couple of weeks before anyone else.

Led4power can ship stuff anywhere from Croatia (which is not in the EU) for minimal fees.

The Netherlands decided to become the centre for EU post some years ago, by subsidising and gaming the reciprocal postage agreements, for a while all my business post was sent from Amsterdam, but that got stopped, they were taking the micky.

Postage charges are very important for trade, sadly the USA doesn’t recognise this, and leaves it to the “free market” AKA monopolist businesses. Who are either hideously inefficient, or creaming off immense profits.

Rant over.

Thanks for trying, Tom Tom. :slight_smile:

Some new leds luckily appear quick at RS (a UK company) as well as Mouser/Digikey, mainly leds from Osram and Lumileds. RS charges just €2.50 shipping and they arrive overnight from England, so that is my first go-to shop for leds if possible.

But they are not up to date in Samsung leds, they just carry some LH351B leds.

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For a total of 1 lights .
How many Flashlight do you want in total? … x … units? .

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I’ll give you one.
Please say how many you want.
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Shall I give you two more for a total of three flashlights?
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How many lanterns do you want in total? … x … units? .

I’ve heard doubts aplenty, but the fact is, it’s been nothing but vocal doubts that this amount of light could travel more than a few feet before becoming hopelessly useless. “maybe” under the stove? What, is your stove half a mile across? “Determining the exact color of the boxers(…)”? With that kind of attitude maybe I should determine the exact color of the boot targeted at Uranus.

You think, you doubt, you think. I have been in the dark, I know how much light it takes to see when there’s not streetlights and floodlights shining in your eyes. If it was truly dark outside, then the other sources of light can’t add up to much; let’s say a full moon even though I don’t consider moonlight dark (I can nearly read a book by it). It’s the wrong phase right now to compare versus that, but at the very least I might show what this rough amount of kcd at 300ft instead of 200 can do. Maybe I’ll try doing a video; of course I will have to turn it down if I go anywhere but an open field. My d4 219c turbo was enough for 200ft+ on a clear night; on a normal night the haze makes any light a bit less useful since more light just means more backscatter. If I get any haze, I might have to just do normal walking around rather than focusing on the infrequent longer ranges.

Generally I either need to be able to search for things at a very far distance with a d1s or equivalent; or maybe to get a very good look at something in specific that was still somewhat distant. Otherwise, my edc is for when you need something to see what’s in the near area (50-150 ft, sometimes more): where are you, where are the buildings / vehicles / other things you’re navigating between, what’s near enough to you to be worth noticing, and where should you put your feet.

A thought….there are quite a few flashlight users who disregard turbo and want thermally-stable output only. Now….FW3A won’t be the light with the highest output in the class, but the combination of ui, egronomics, price would still make it pretty unique. Would adding an option to stop the ramp at the highest sustainable level make FW3A more appealing to such users?

The ceiling is set by default at full 7135 which is actually not that far off from what it can maintain with some emitters IIRC. I think xp-g3 was 800lm anyway.

Being one of the few who actually has a Samsung 4000k triple, I would disagree. It makes an excellent EDC and can light up my entire yard and garage… Stating things like excellent looking under a washer, sink or stove is quite purposefully misleading especially if you personally don’t own something in this configuration. This is not to be confused with a mule configuration that has no optic. This light is using an optic.

maybe iam blind-its only this grey colour?whats the runtime on high with XPL?thanks a lot

That’s crazy talk! :smiley:


four Maxtoch Shooter 2Xs


seven BLF Q8s

Awesome! That bottom one looks like it would make a perfect pocket EDC!!! :stuck_out_tongue:

More noise & exaggeration from you Tom Tom.

Your quoted post above was #3626.

As of that post I have indeed made 67 of them for 1.847%.
You have posted 59 times of the 3626 for a 1.627%.
So indeed I did outpost you by a whopping 0.220% in post count. :+1:

But in length of post & lines written…… you would be the sure winner. :wink:

So Tom Tom……
……your ’declaration’ is somewhat akin to ‘the pot calling the kettle black’. :smiley:

At least try to be accurate in your future insult attempts Tom Tom…… :beer:

As far as “interesting”…… that is subjective & depends on the individual listener. You certainly do not have a final say on that besides your own personal opinion.
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sub·jec·tive / 1. based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions:

I was cycling last night at 2am in a pretty remote rural area about 25km from home. Clear, no moon, the milky way shining bright overhead, so I knew it was dark. I stopped my bike and turned off my light to see how dark.

Wow! I could not even see the road right underneath me, even after letting my eyes dark adapt for a few minutes. I could make out the tree line where it met the starry sky, but that was it. It was actually rather scary, when I thought, “What would happen if my light broke or I ran out of batteries?” I would have been completely unable to navigate anywhere, even by foot, at least until twilight started to give me some light. (But I carried 4 lights and spare batteries, so I wasn’t worried.)

Any light at 300 ft., even a crappy low-power one, would have easily out-shined any stray light (of which there was virtually none). Even 0.01 lux would have allowed me to see where the road was.

So your comments on the Samsung LED are what exactly? Pots? kettles? Who cares. Just add some actual value to the discussions to help people make better educated choices if you are going to comment on something specifically like the Samsung triple.