I’m pretty sure that Sofirn does not do HA III coating, let go on a 6 dollar light. I guess that their silver flashlights are anodised but not to HA III.
Convoy’s have a nice clear coating but I know that Simon is keen on good coatings. But still I doubt it is HA III
Nah, I want the bare LEDs for a multi-emitter light! I’m thinking a DIY photographic ring light with tint mixing. Or maybe a nice High CRI light for my house.
EDIT: I keep saying tint. What I mean is CCT or color temp. :person_facepalming:
There have been several group buys in the past, but none planned at the moment that I know of.
I wonder if the LED’s are something Richard at Mountain Electronics would interested in stocking. They’re good for tinkering since 5mm LED’s are easy to work with.
I think somebody a few pages upthread found an Australian vendor that has them. You might see if you can find the post.
I have never seen a real (good) HA3 coating on a Chinese light except for maybe Zebralight. At the very least they are not as good as they could be. The best coatings I have seen/felt are from HDS and Surefire (and I have no problem criticizing their lights for lots of other reasons). Maybe also Lupine. This is entirely subjective though. My current Armytek definitely gets way more scratches from keys than my HDS ever did.
Today when I arrived home I picked one of my 2 AAA flashlights, the Nitefox K3 and its diffuser.
I don’t know if this is relevant, important, doable, interesting, or not, but given the (future) specs of the flashlight being discussed here, would it be “nice” to have a diffuser for it? Again, I don’t know how “important, etc…” it would be, and also if it would add anything “interesting”, but would it be nice to propose a diffuser for this light? Just an idea… :arrow_right:
This is a keychain light, floody, and only about 8-10 lumen. Diffuser is really not needed but if Sofirn would make it for those who wants it as an optional accessory, that would be great.
I never had a diffuser on my E01 that I am carrying. Wouldn’t it easily come off in your pants due to putting the key in and pulling it out?
+1 The only way I see a diffuser being useful on a light of such small output, is if it had TK’s candle mode installed and you wanted to use it while in a concert. :sunglasses: :+1:
Hum, the perspective I thought was more on an indoor environment. With the warmest tint, I thought it could be of some use! But, as I don’t know how that will end to be in terms of luminosity and beam, I don’t know if the idea was good or not! Hence my suggestion
Thanks for your inputs, though
BTW, David, on concerts I like the stroooooooobes for better headbanging :smiling_imp:
After checking, the story may be a bit less exciting than Barry told me earlier, but here it is:
Sofirn purchased 1000x3200K and 1000x5600K 5mm Yuji leds, and Barry told me first that Yuji told Sofirn that after this sale they were out of stock of the 5600K version and there was just one batch left of the 3200K version. And that Yuji had discontinued their 5mm leds .
Then I checked the Yuji store and the website let me put all types of 5mm leds in the shopping basket no problem. So I asked Barry about that and he said that then maybe they did not get the last ones but there were not many left. And that Yuji may have told Sofirn of the last batches to induce sales.
So the information, as often, is fuzzy and we will not know what is really happening over there. I just hope that the notice that the high CRI 5mm leds are discontinued is not true.
One other thing that I noticed when visiting the Yuji website, is that the 5mm leds come with two emission angles: 45 degrees and 60 degrees (like the colour temperature, you can choose with a button which type to get). I must have noticed that before when I bought my stashes years ago but forgot about it. I think that the 45 degrees version would be preferred for this flashlight so I asked Barry which type they had bought. Today he answered that they had not noticed the two angles ( :person_facepalming: ) , so he looked it up and it was the 60 degrees version (without adding further comments if they agree that the 45 degrees version would be preferred).
In case Sofirn has decided to continue with the 60 degrees leds (so even floodier lights), I wonder what you guys think about that?