[♛ FreemeGB] Fireflies PL47 Gen II 4*XP-L/ Nichia/ SST20 Hi CRI 21700 Right Angle Flashlight - ENDED

Angle type is nothing, pattern of use is everything.

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Interested!

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With the compact small size, I wonder how it handles heat, considering it has 4 LEDs and uses a 21700, it seems to be designed to put out a respectable amount of lumens (maybe comparable to headlamps that use a single XHP50.2 or XHP70.2?)

I think BLF- standard 10-15s for thermal step down at turbo)

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Very interested.

More chance of getting this anytime soon than an FW3A I think.

x3 AMCs seems about right for a useful torch. With good firmware, maybe not Narsil, no disrespect, too much going on with that which I don’t use, I’d prefer Anduril.

The right-angle form factor looks good to me. Not as a head torch, just a very practical arrangement, and small.

Could do with a better clip that fits top shirt pocket or belt. Not that skimpy little thing that would barely clip into a jeans pocket, it needs a lot more gape and to extend to the top of the head.

Some way of attaching a lanyard/wrist strap would be good. Even just a little hole in the tailcap. Olight manage to do this.

The subsidiary LEDs look like fun, just because they can be done, though I’d rather it was just 2 banks of AMCs + FET for efficiency. Better use of the limited MCU pins I think.

A bit like the craze for gimmicky tail light LEDs that I have resisted.

Not so keen on the 21-70 cell. Better just 18650, smaller, slimmer. I think 21-70 will turn out to be a gimmick with little traction. Still, an 18650 should fit provided springs can cope and a sleeve is provided.

Probably. Too much heat in a small space, so it won’t be able to sustain high output for long unless it’s water-cooled.

If it’s easy to reflash the driver in an assembled host, like if it has Lexel’s flashing connector in a convenient place, I’ll probably use it for testing new thermal algorithms. It seems overpowered enough to count as “hard mode” for the thermal regulation game.

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Agree with comment about the clip. A light like this it needs a good strong wide clip for use on jacket pocket, backpack strap etc or it’s usefulness will be limited.

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This picket-clip looks like the generic one coming with every mateminco/astrolux/BLF 18650 tube flashlights.

They should go with a more dedicated-to-this-model pocket-clip or with this generic pocket-clip but with a little rework.
I’m fed up with this pocket-clip-catching-in-its-wrong-spot the pocket because the bent part is too short.
When you pull the flashlight down in your pocket, the edge of the pocket is going right here :

Instead of here, if it has a longer bent part (in red) :

Please, please FireFlies, make it right.

Or, even better, use an Olight-style clip which doesn’t have that problem:

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“even better, use an Olight-style clip which doesn’t have that problem”

Yes, please.

usb or not??)