I don’t know about you all, but I have other flashlights.
I still remain interested and will stay on this list because what is being offered is still very special and surprisingly affordable. I do hope that it comes to fruition (soon). But I do have other lights to use until that happens.
The idea was that Fritz designed it, the mechanics, and the driver (and presumably firmware). He spoke of having done both.
Then Cawi would get it made, with his experience and access to German CNC equipment.
So Cawi cannot hide behind having no technical knowledge. He should be as able to judge any mechanical problems as Fritz.
A small run, at an unknown “Fritz” price, which usually starts at $300 dollars (or Euros).
Then it went commercial and BLF/The Miller was asked to help out, which he did, and set up the contact with Lumintop. And DEL (driver). And TK (firmware). And BLF (publicity and organisation).
But then had to duck out for higher-priority reasons.
Meanwhile the whole mechanical purity has become diluted, nay, bastardised, IMO.
I do hope that it will still happen. Eventually. It might even be marginally reliable.
Well, that’s how I see it, and am prepared to be challenged on any of these historical “facts”.
“A collaboration between TLF (Germany) and BLF (global)
Fritz15 made a small triple flashlight on his lathe.
TLF reacted very positive and at first a small hand made batch would be pursued.
Yet, this elegant design just screams for a wider audience.
For a lot of us mere mortals, seeing the cool things machinists make on their lathe is just a dream.
Hence the finish of the FW3A will be clear anodizing, no sanding/beadblasting before anodization.
The idea is to give all the chance to have a light looking like it came of a lathe with the protection of anodizing.
(surface finish details are still being worked out though)”
At full power? A few seconds. Have you used an Emisar D4? It’s a lot like that.
At a more practical power level? It should run indefinitely at several hundred lumens, depending on how you configure its thermal parameters.
Here’s an output graph from a few months ago, showing thermal ramp-down and then a relatively stable level:
That first minute is likely to ramp down faster than shown in the graph though. It was actually too hot during that first plateau, so I made it adjust down faster.
When started at the default ceiling level of 1100 lumens, the result looked more like this:
This test was 9 months ago though, and things have been updated since then. Mostly, it just shows a rough idea of what to expect when using a high mode which isn’t turbo. I think this test also had a lower temperature limit configured. The stable level depends on the user’s personal configuration and environmental conditions.