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

The comments I made were simply in response to scenarios spaceminions suggested. (quoted below)
There was no intent to be “misleading” & certainly no intent to be “purposefully misleading” either.
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Oh, took the time to post and blame the other guy for you drawing false conclusions on an LED not even specified by him or handled by you. Yeah, this is definitely a $20,000,000 response. LOL!

Fellows, with all due respect, please let’s not turn this GB thread into another rant thread!! :zipper_mouth_face: :frowning:
It is already hard to follow, sometimes, this flashlight’s development information and the discussions that may elucidate unaware people, like myself!

Thanks for your comprehension :blush:

ON TOPIC:
When this light is out, and looking to it’s characteristics (theoretically), will an unprotected Samsung 30Q or a Sony US18650VTC6 be good to provide the “max” power?
How about the Sanyo NCR18650GA, will they be good enough?
Sorry, but I wanna order some batteries in advance and wanted to know which would be better!

Thanks for the answers, in advance, and the updates on this :+1:

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My understanding is that the VTC6 is slightly better than the 30Q. So the VTC6 should give best performance.

As the FW3A uses a FET like the D4, it will pretty much pull as many amps as your cell can provide. This means that high drain cells like the 30Q and VTC6 should produce higher peak output than lower drain cells like the GA.

That said, if you run the FW3A in max turbo I expect that it will start ramping down almost immediately, like the D4. Using high-drain cells might not provide as much benefit due to that rampdown.

Just 1 light please.

Sorry! I forgot I was already on the list.

I have to unsubscribe from this thread. All this childishness is uncalled for and quite aggravating to read when you are just trying to get info on the progress of the light. Jesus, grown ass men bickering about stuff that hasn’t happen yet. Is that your Pintrest? I will just wait for the light to become available and worry about it then. Shame how a few clowns can make a GB a damn circus.

This light is turning us against each other!!!

The FW3A is my 3rd Group buy, first the ill-fated S42, then the ill-fated SC26, now this. Third time is the charm!

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Short list, Last requests .
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I want two units total. mil gracias por su ayuda pepinfaxera.

Don’t order yet, the next technology of batteries may be released before this light :smiley:

Been a long time since last log in, Glad to see this project still in the works.

Was hoping to have these this year for work, but its all good. Hopefully by next June have these to play with :smiley:

So, I want 1 light in total. Totally forgot that I had already commented.

Thanks!

Ever since post #1 got switched over to a team account there are updates there. So maybe just check post #1 every week or so to see the latest news.

Thanks for your answer Firelight2 :wink:

Farnell is good too. But good old RadioSpares is a mainstay. Maybe contact them and see if they have any plans to get more options in.

An aside, Sir Rowland Hill invented the modern postage system in 1837.

So we have some history in how to do it.

Plus the steam engine, the jet engine, the RR Merlin, RADAR, and the railway (and television).

Edit: and of course atom bombs, rockets that work and hypersonic transport. and the key technology for the Galileo system that will fall apart without us.

The USA of course came up with the Pony Express, but doesn’t seem to have progressed much since.

Night mail (Royal Mail still has a universal service obligation i.e. I can post something here on the south coast at say 5PM and be certain it will arrive in Orkney or the Outer Hebrides the following day, for the same price as sending it a mile down the road.

I don’t even need to put a stamp on, it will get delivered though the recipient will have to pay, which is a bit cheeky.

It’s more done with planes today (one of my staff used to pilot the night mail plane to Cologne once a week, to keep up his four-engine commercial rating on the BA 146). I tagged along once, which was fun (and co-piloted for a bit, whilst he had a snooze, but don’t tell anyone).

And trains (though it’s all a bit messed up at the moment since a timetable change was introduced a few weeks ago, big-bang style, which isn’t quite working yet, wouldn’t have happened in Switzerland or Japan)

An amusing observation about the reliability of oil lamps, about nine minutes in.

All in fun,whilst we await developments and evaluations of the B models.

It’s been a long haul waiting for this light and I’d bet we’ve got a bit more waiting to do, but these latest discussions and seeing the latest sample is getting me excited all over again.

I’ve got little experience with all of the emitters mentioned in this thread but my preference is for warm to neutral tint and flood over throw but I like the idea of offering a couple versions (which might make someone at Lumintop’s head explode with the added complexity) to hopefully satisfy more people’s needs.

That said, this should prove to be a light that makes the flashlight community sit up and take notice. Powerful, small, slick and affordable in one package. We oughta count our blessings whatever they decide.

I was in a dark area. No stray light pollution from any nearby houses, and the nearest city or town about 100km away.

See the following light pollution map for your nearest dark-sky area:

http://djlorenz.github.io/astronomy/lp2006/overlay/dark.html

It’s really not dark until you’re in the “blue” or darker areas. That means most of the eastern US is not dark.

That said, I didn’t let my eyes fully dark-adapt, so I probably would have made out the road near me if I did fully dark-adapt. That would have taken 20-30 minutes. Still, there’s no way I’d want to be stuck in a dark-sky area without a light.

I am fortunate to have easy access to truly dark sky, from my northern base. Kielder and Galloway. The fewer lumens the better, with spread, not throw.

It’s regulated, this is important, street lamps and other things, as well as some RF stuff that can mess up the radio telescopes.

It is really quite an experience to see truly dark sky, that’s if your frazzled city eyes can cope.

And it would be very rude indeed to shine around an aggressive torch that meets some BLF ideas about “max power”.

I voted and used my BLF username…

Come on XP-L HI!!!