For colors, I’d love to see a red or orange. I find these easier to find in the dark than black, and the ‘champagne gold’ ano always looks cheap to me.
I could help out with the list and with handling polls, although I’m not familiar with what sites are preferred here. I’m most familiar with Surveymonkey.
On a side note, I think people have already expressed interest in a similar amount of the Sofirn light as the original Fenix idea. Probably should set up a new thread fairly soon.
As far as LEDs go, I think sticking to the original Yuji LEDs would be a good idea. Let Sofirn offer UV/Red/low CRI variants later.
Three colours total? One should probably be black. I’m not familiar enough with Sofirn’s colour ano quality to offer educated suggestions, but I like blue based colours like cyan, navy, purple, green, and shades thereof. The spectrums offered by Convoy or formerly by L3 Illuminations give some good ideas.
I still do not think a new thread is needed for this. The main objective is that the flashlight will be developed and that is being cared of and the interest list is for Sofirn to get an idea how wanted this light is. This thread is further used to gather ideas for this light and it has produced useful contributions already.
Only setting up a group buy is challenging but that may not even be in order, wether members from the interest list will receive a discount is not sure and for 6 dollar this light is interesting enough already without discount. If later a discount is indeed in order it is early enough to ask for help and find a way to do it (i.e. maybe a not so secret code to get to 5 dollar would do the trick already).
Ohhh, I like the recent developments! Put me down for a 5600K (I wish there was something in the middle, like a 4500K, but hey… I’ll take what I can get!)
I would like this light to have maximum runtime. So I vote 20 mA if 30 mA will reduce the runtime dramatically. These type of lights are not meant to be bright anyway.
I’m afraid I will need to do a current/output test this evening, and a 24hrs runtime test at 60mA to see how they last. That will generate some data on what current is best.