FW3A, a TLF/BLF EDC flashlight - SST-20 available, coupon codes public

Do I really need to insert the Futurama meme of Fry screaming “TAKE MY MONEY” ???

I think I just drooled on myself a little. It looks so nice! :smiley: Thanks for keeping us updated. I really appreciate it.

In the OP it says “current status: anodization is dark gray”… now, I can’t speak for others of course, but to me dark gray would be something like graphite (or maybe a bit lighter than that) - in the pics it looks like it’s closer to silver, kinda like a middle gray actually lol.

Did you swap in clear optics btw? Or did yours not come with a frosted medium spot?

Have to admit, I actually prefer the dark grey.

Whatever color gray Proto 4 is, in TK’s picture above; looks just fine to me. :+1:

Both colors look good to me. What really has me excited is seeing it next to the SK-68, and realizing it uses an 18650. It almost seems like magic.

but which color will we get, the darker or the lighter one ?

Only time will tell for sure I suppose…… :wink: … When we open our boxes we will know with 100% accuracy. :smiley:

We are getting the darker color. The lighter color (prototype 2) had issues with faint stripes being visable.

They changed to the darker color (prototype 4) and the stripes are gone. The new color is very consistent.

okay i see, i actually prefer the darker eventho it wouldnt matter which hey used . its crazy how small this light is, compared to that sk68 light more or less the same size i would never guessed this light uses 18650 if i didnt know about it before.

Darker, like Proto4; good!! :+1:

You are the luckiest receiver of all FW3A receivers! I wish that was the X-L HI version available on the production run.

4000K is my preference, and the 219B is still one of the top two nicest tints in that temp. The 219B is extremely consistent in my experience, and all the XPL-HI 4000K I’ve used have been slightly better or just slightly worse. The HI’s are really consistent for Cree’s.

We asked for dark grey, though what I received is more of what I’d call a medium grey. I think it still looks good though, even though it’s a bit lighter than expected.

I don’t have any 10511 optics right now, but I ordered some. So I’ve been using the two closest until then — 10508 and 10507. Those are what I have in the pictures.

I know, right? I’m not sure if the SK-68 is as widely-known these days as it used to be, but it was a lot of people’s first modern LED light… and the FW3A is almost exactly the same size. But the FW3A puts out about 50 times as much light, has 5X as much battery capacity, has a much nicer general-purpose beam, and has feature-rich firmware instead of just 1-mode or high-low-strobe.

Darker.

In this case, it actually makes my 219B-4000K light look slightly green. It’s quite rosy. That’s just about right for me though.

Maybe after the initial batches are done, they could make a 5A-tint XP-L HI model. Or SST-20. Or whatever else people want. For now though, I just want to get the original project done.

There was a poll about this a while back, basically yes/no for each optional “blip” in the ramp, and I went with whichever ones had more yays than nays. IIRC, that worked out to 1x7135, 8x7135, and ramp ceiling. But in the default config, those last two are the same.

I’ve been tempted to turn off the blips entirely, and have turned them off in the builds for some other lights, but the FW3A is still configured according to the poll results.

I’m just curious about the “blips”…

For now, which flashlights with Anduril have that blip? and which don’t?

I think the BLF Q8 and Sofirn Q8, Emisar D4S has that blip to signify crossing-over from the fully-regulated to partly-FET-driven mode.
But I don’t think I noticed a ‘blip’ on the Fireflies PL47 or E07.
Is that right?

Yes, I think so.

The “blip” simply turns off the emitters for 8ms when it passes a specific level.

Joined BLF because I saw this linked on Reddit and it fits everything I’ve been wanting in an EDC light. In for one!

Put me down for two please!

Doh! Reddit swoops in again at the last minute. :stuck_out_tongue:

I knew it was just a matter of time.

In for 2

I wish I only discovered this thread today. It would be much more exciting!

And fill your weekend nicely.