What will the colors be available? What will the firmware be used and will it be possible to flash (as in d4s)? Will it have an aux leds?
Awesome, I want one!
Any details on pricing, or is that TBD?
Oh, it will never end. I thought I already had everything I wanted, and here’s another flashlight that I want. Why are so few companies doing 4500K high CRI ?. I really like this range.
Nice!
That looks so amazing!
You are planning to make a flashlight on the emitters of the XHP family? This will help fight the heat.
Any details on the driver?
Any option with other leds? Nichia 219c or XP-L?
What battery configuration is used?
Its gorgeous Hank.
looks like no aux leds? and how come 3*18650 and not 4 ? wouldnt 20700 or 21700 been better to use for better runtimes? looks like a fun sodacan light tho and nice design the sand color really looks cool Hank 
RIP wallet.
This can’t be less than 100 bucks right?
I’m glad I don’t have to keep this to myself any more.
This light is really bright. Like, really really bright. I can’t even measure it properly, because it’s way more lumens than I have equipment for. It’s like a Noctigon Meteor M43 but a bit smaller, a lot brighter, and with a smooth/stepped ramping UI.
Just so I have an idea, how many BLF Q8s does it equate to?
almost 3 or so, since it does around 5500+ or something on high drain batteries.
A lot of recent high-CRI emitter don’t come in 4500K. I don’t know why. They go up to 4000K, and they go above 5000K, but they have nothing between. If I recall correctly, this is the case for SST-20, LH351D, and 219C. And if I recall correctly, SST-20 doesn’t even have high CRI above 4000K.
However, there are still ways to get 4500K. With so many emitters, it would be a great light for some tint mixing. Put in a mix of 4000K and 5000K emitters, and the tint should be a nicer color temperature which also has a slighly more pink bias.
It could be arranged like this, for example: 9x4000K, 9x5000K
Or to make things look even nicer, it could use all four emitter tints: 3x3000K, 6x4000K, 6x5000K, 3x6500K
This would probably make a very nice-looking ~4700K beam with vivid color rendering, as long as the emitters have the same Vf.
As for me, this is the optimal configuration:
3x18650
18xXP-L HI 3A
Without AUX led
Black
100 $ hmmm
I need to try it! I NEED TO TRY IT!
Basically we wanted to keep the size and weight as small as possible with lots of LEDs, without compromising too much, because always a large mass and volume of a host can be better for LED liefespan and actual turbo power, however there is also a limit into jacket pocketability if a light is too big and heavy, so wanted that aspect to be quite ok.
Glad you like it.
The XP-L HI’s are expensive compared to SST-20’s, 18 XP-L HI’s at around $5.00- $6.00 bucks street price.