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

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.

TK, that button effect is simply from the circular machining marks, it’s present on virtually every flat surface machined true on a lathe. Depends a lot on the feed rate but yeah, see it all the time cutting ends of bar stock on the lathe. :wink:

I’m in for one! XP-L HI please

Sure know how to explain the magic out of her discovery! Humbug!

FYI-

Per post #6622, I’d like to up my requested number of lights, but don’t see that the list has my updated info on it. If it’s simply not been updated yet, please excuse my paranoia.

I did an oopsie doopsie and psoted in the wrong thread :zipper_mouth_face:

Put me down for one please.

I try not to update the list more than once per week, and the last update was only two days ago. The timestamp at the top of post #4 shows when it was last updated.

A flower is simply the effect of rearranging some of the chemicals in dirt into a different form, and people see them all the time… but I still like to stop and smell them. :wink:

Thanks, TK.

So very well said & true. If we don’t take time to smell the flowers in lifes journey…. we truly miss a lot. . :wink: . :+1: