Fireflies ROT66 Flashlight

i am very interested

I def want a Nichia version! I placed an order for one.

219Bs are normally a little rosy, but this is the sw45k tint bin, which is very rosy, plus R9080 CRI bin, which is better than the usual R9050.

This is a very rare emitter. I’m surprised and pleased to see it offered on the first product from a new manufacturer, especially along with Narsil firmware. I’m really curious as to who’s behind this company and what their ties are to the flashlight community. One does not come out of nowhere and design a light like this.

Yep I wonder the same thing. It is like a flashlight lover’s dream light come true but coming from an unheard of brand. I also wonder where they get the ultra rare 9080 219B nichias that is not available anywhere besides from Clemence in limited quantities.

I ordered the 219B version with gold. This will render my Astrolux MF01 and Noctigon M43 obsolete.

Tint looks very nice :smiley: :smiley:

The flashlight is beautiful. When the group buy at a better price, i buy the flashlight.

The M43 is at least constant current with its boost driver so there is something unique there.

I did not hear anyone mention this,unless I missed it.

I went on the website and noticed.

$98 for Nichia 219B-V1

+ $20 for XPL HI CW

+ $25 for XPL HI NW

How did you get it so soon or is this from another flashlight?

Not my firefiles Rot66, the photo is from Firefiles’ FB.

Neal has gotten his today and he likes it ;)

to you who ordered, did it indicate how long the shipping would take?

Also, do people really like ‘VERY ROSY’??? Doesn’t work for me, guess I prefer the cheap emitters :frowning:

this thread should grow……

Oh no, another Chinese company with the word “Fire” in it. :smiley:

The owner of Fireflies is the same as Enogear. The paypal payment went to the same person as the two Enogear purchases I made. For those that never heard of it, here’s a thread regarding the Enogear Stainless Steel AA/14500 flashlight that is well loved here. I bought one too but unfortunately mine along with a few others reported their Enogear AA/14500 got fried by using 14500. Jackie hopefully has my replacement in transit right now, which he promised me. Otherwise, the Enogear Stainless Steel was much better than expected for the price (nice rosy tint also).

If shipping is the same as Enogear, then it is slow like a turtle. Expect 1.5 to 2 months for it to arrive.

nice looking light, can’t wait until someone from BLF make a review of it

Some people do like that, yes. I have a couple of these emitters, and while I don’t want every flashlight to be that way, I enjoy it.

I’d like to see another high-CRI option for those who don’t enjoy that. The Samsung LH351D would be a good choice.

The driver design is from me, also was heavily involved to get NarsilM running on it, a lot of practical problems for fireflies to get it done in mass production
I did not even count the hours communicating over Skype explain things, troubleshoot ect.

There has been a lot of work getting it done, lots of problems like with a big loacal distributor for Microchips delivered fake ATTiny85s
To keep problems like this not happening again all parts for driver were ordered from Arrow in the USA

Final product looks promising

the best MOSFET I could find going through specs of different manufactories is used
the same Infineon MOSFET for best performane I use on all my drivers after the SIR404
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Basically the MOSFET is like none existent even down to low battery voltages the resistance keeps extremly low, 1.2mOhms at 3.5V

Lower modes are current controlled with AMC7135s the good claw type

I tried everything I could do over Skype to get the flashing issue fixed, on a picture the markings on the Attiny made me suspicious,

to get the problem dealt quicker Fireflies sent me a prototype driver and LED board with DHL Express, flashing did not work so I cut it off and made makros of it,
definately does not look original

As I was sure an original Attiny85 worked great, so I build a few and send them back with Express for the first prototypes

Production

Some product pictures with first prototype

They went for SS Bezel and Tail even if the production costs are higher, pretty unique as far as I know
The center 2mm rod of the carrier got removed even if its in the design there, has no real practical advantage

So it’s current controlled for the lower modes with 7135 chips, meaning the 9 emitters are parallel? And do you know what the max current controlled output is for the 219B? Awesome you’re working on this project! :sunglasses:

Edit: Ugh, of course it’s 9 x parallel; it’s FET with 3 cells parallel. And max current controlled output is something like ~1500 lumens I think.

Knowing the driver was designed by Lexel, I’ll probably buy more later! Can’t wait to receive mine!

Any chance of a clear anodized version?