Do we have to order from Neal. Nothing against Neal, I prefer to order on Fireflies site. Will there be another code like with the ROT66 and PL47 which works on his site directly?
Hey, TK. how about a pic of fw3a in V’s hand and the e07 in the other? I Might get one for the wifey. I almost had a heart attack when SHE asked ME for a new flashlight because the last one wasn’t bright enough. Congrats on your new lights for a job well done. I think Jacky got the auxiliary LEDs colors right for you!
Maybe next to a ROT66, but probably not a D4/D4S. It seems a bit rude to make a public comparison of two competing clients’ products, especially when both are some of the best on the market.
Also, this is only speculation, but I get the impression that FF may be intentionally avoiding direct overlap, by choosing different form factors and different battery types and different aesthetics. I don’t think the items are meant to be directly comparable. It’s a form of playing nice, and I want to respect that.
a picture next to the rot66 would be nice. and just to verify, the aux leds on the side switch are purple, correct? are the purple leds on the head the same purple as the side switch? are the optics the same size a the rot66, or smaller?
I’m mostly interested in sustained high and effiency.
I guess I’ve too wait for a review too know the sustained high?
Anyway which option is most effecient? Is the light with the most lumens on turbo also the light that’s most effecient at, say, 1000 lumen?
If there is an effiency difference how many percent would that be?
Anyway, some pictures. My camera doesn’t pick up the aux LED colors very well though. They’re a lot more vibrant than they look in the pictures, and a lot more different from each other. But since the LEDs are narrow-band colors, my camera’s RGB sensor apparently doesn’t know what to do with it.
Also, kind of experimenting with watermarking because it’s getting old seeing my pics used by companies to sell stuff. So I ran a really early proof of concept script on the pics to put some minimal identifying info in them. I’ll have something nicer-looking later.
don’t worry about making your watermarks nicer
make them harder to circumvent or crop out
we appreciate your stuff and don’t mind reading between the lines
Thanks TK. I agree make it a larger watermark on the product so it can’t simply be cut out, unless you plan to actually sue them.
Those pics show off the color difference between the champagne and desert yellow, first I’ve seen together. I wonder why they didn’t stick with champagne this time.
The driver has reflashing pads on the spring side, which should be compatible with Lexel’s flashing key. So it can be reflashed without removing the driver.
But I don’t know if it can be reflashed without removing the aux LEDs. Lexel’s previous designs were all incompatible with the flashing process, so it was necessary to unsolder one of the aux LED board wires before reflashing. That might still be the case, but I won’t find out until I get a suitable flashing key.
My guess is that you’d need to unsolder one of the aux LED wires at the front of the light, then flash the driver, then solder the wire back on. Because the current regulation used on the aux LED board may interfere with the flashing protocol. Same reason why the aux LED board doesn’t have a low mode.
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