run4jc is a very lucky guy, those are some of his lights. Price is no objection for him, he buys lights that cost hundreds of dollars, each
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So, for those that want a YujiE01:
For less than US$100 Vinh will gladly sell you Two UNpotted E01 with the Yuji(s) of your choice.
Unit cost is $48 per Yuji
Update: 31 persons interrested in 56 lights in 4 days.
Hmm… still a way to go until we reach that hypothetical 500 people target list.
For the impatient: like jon_slider said, those who want that *UNpotted *Yuji E01 they can buy one from Vinhn’s shop.
Please do if you want one badly right now. I think it will only wet your appetite for a Fenix produced Yuji E01 :innocent:
By the way: Fenix introduced the E01 in April 2008.
Then means 2018 would be a great year to introduce the Fenix E01 special 10 year anniversary edition.
With Yuji high CRI led of course
That isn’t a fair statement. Gerber bought the rights to the design. And then dramatically improved on it. What you buy now looks nothing like the CMG. Gerber’s version is my favorite “twist” switch.
I modded my e01 with a yuji a while ago. With that experience I would not get a modded light from anyone for I could not be sure about its long term reliability. My specimen has worked just fine for half a year but I know that I made some specific damage to the LE and I am almost certain that there could be an additional damage that I am just unaware of. A night stand light? Probably. A bomb proof light with e01 logo? No way.
So I’d gladly buy a couple Fenix made yuji e01 regardless of price
For a keychain light, I prefer it to be white and bright. I won’t use it to do other things beside to see what’s in front of me so color rendering is not too important to me. I just don’t like the purple tint the stock E01 has.
If you want to make this, why not just get a manker boney? I don't think its potted and its not very expensive. I don't think the nichia has bad light either stock.
For cool white just remove the light from the boney and put a generic 5mm in.
It is not potted, so it should be easier to mod, but still doesn’t look particularly easy, and it’s questionable that it is as durable as the E01. Beamshots of the stock emitter don’t look any better than the Fenix.