SP36
It was the first wow light I looked at because of the USB charging. It’s great for a car because of the ability to recharge BUT, I decided on smaller and redundancy.
Check out the SP36…even more light then the Q8 but smaller, therefore peak will be shorter.
Started a timer upon initiating Turbo, Anduril kept the light under 111º even at up to 2 minutes, I double clicked into Turbo after checking a 2700 lumen reading at that point and the light did go to 120º at 2:34. So Anduril pretty seamlessly manages the output to control the heat, I didn’t notice it stepping down but was watching the heat on my Turnigy gun with the light tail standing pointing at the ceiling. This gave my Turnigy gun a clear shot at the head. I’ll recharge the cells and check to see the timing on step down while reading lumens in the box.
Turbo to usable?
Here’s my thinking….in an emergency walk around, you want max lighting to act both as a light source and a perp blinder. 3-4 minutes does it. Then a step down to what it can on a continuous basis.
Is 120F holdable? I think it is.
Can you do that and give us the numbers? It will go a long way to the next gen justification.
<tap, tap> This thing on?
Airpro DC7.
Fitty bux with 26buk-off coupon… right… now.
I started to make a “charging cap” for my Q8. PVC end cap to screw onto the battery tube and charge all 4 cells at once, but don’t quite know how to cut threads on the inside for it to stick. No lathe or anything fancy. Was thinking press-fit, weighted, etc., but nothing jumped out at me.
It’s in my cart… coupon applied… finger twitching… sweat on brow… MUST… RE… ZIST…
Resistance is futile.
dc7 has a lighted switch only when the flashlight is on?
Yeah, and was wondering if it’s settable like the Q8, but couldn’t find anything in the manual.
I did up a review on Amazon, mentioning that, but it wasn’t “published” yet.
Good thing I waited, as I got an invite in email to be an “early reviewer”! I’m gonna get a 3buk gift card, too!
Now Maw kin git that opurashun…
It’s a small inconvenience. It may be related to the charging function
The DC7 keeps getting mentioned…It a decent light? Wanting to get my first soda can and not sure where to start. Q8, D18, Meteor, DC7? Is there another thread that could help me out?
Just 10000-15000lm for several seconds is already boring. There are many such lights.
Is is interesting to see some new hardware features. Good charger with modern parts. CcT adjusting, active cooling and so on.
Active cooling is good solution. What about oil cooling? Like those in big transformers.
Other budget LED option is 4 x SST40.
Nooooo….I can imagine the leak issues!
Small fan behind the head. Cheap and effective, like CPU fans.
Try 5 clicks. Mine’s at home, so can’t do it now, but while I here and remember…
Dialectric oil is used to isolate different parts and also to transfer heat from parts that can’t touch metal or touch each-others (short). In a flashlight, it’s the metal that is used to transfer heat, oil won’t help.
Yeah, more and more light is boring for me, too. Larger and larger lights to do anything more than scorch your fingers and eyes for a handful of seconds. The "more light" category needs some major innovation in lumens/Watt before I'll get super excited there, or at least some cooling innovations.
Throw is also relatively stagnant these days, with people still putting XP-G2s in some throwers. Larger optics was the game, and then the GT and MF04 did their thing.
USB-C charging is beginning to see adoption in the flashlight industry. 21700 size, too.
Interfaces are getting pretty advanced, especially for single-button. I think the FW3A will nearly "solve" the single-button tail-switch UI. There's a few nice dual-button configurations out there, but not many, so I guess there's room for innovation there, or for further adoption of selection rings like the RRT-01.
What else is there? Small OLED displays like the vapes have? I still need to be able to fumble in the dark for it, and turn it on without blinding anyone. I could go for every driver ever from now on having a battery check mode of some sort.
I'm also not sure how much I like TIRs these days. Are there any good options for throw? I've lately been feeling like my TIR lights need 1000+ lumens to be useful outdoors at night, for example to see across a parking lot, but admittedly that is the tiny TIRs of triple/quad. Maybe I need to find a big TIR for an S2+ and try it for a bit. They would probably be nice to mod with, too, so I could stop worrying about shorting onto reflectors...
I only have Sofirn Q8. Maybe if they offer neutral white I will buy DC7
Tried it, it’s a “breather”. I’m leaving it off. Beacon or constant-on, sure. Breather, nope.
I thing BLF Q8 is just fine. Only improvement we can do is how to increase time in turbo.
First we can use XPL2 and second to put active cooling.