One concern that may be only lightly relevant for such a functional thing as a lantern: as innovative as it is, the design looks rather dull to me, especially the top half looks a bit boring and maybe a bit cheap, it could use some bling. Is there still an option for a small styling change at this point?
I suggest either to add some of the knuring to the cap section too, to make it in style with the bottom section, and/or add some fins on top.
Pretty much for now until i can receive the prototype build sample to run a full testing on to make sure its in the specifications, there may be some minor adjustments or tweaks before the production one is ready to go.
I’m okay with it the way it is now. It looks pretty good to me. But yeah, it would look better if that top piece had knurling that matched the lower body. :+1:
If they want to do ‘knurling’ on that top piece, they might have to cut it instead of using the knurling tool, because the sides are angled, not perfect cylinders. If they changed it to cylinders, it could be done with the knurling tool and would look pretty good, IMHO.
The prototype looks amazing, can’t wait to see a full video about it. And we definitly need that logo somewhere on it, but maybe we should also add some fins to the upper section depending on the temperature. And what are these silicon pieces left and right of the usb port good for? Do they just cover screws or are some sort of charging indicator LEDs underneath them?
We’ve discussed about it with Barry, and these are LED indicators for charging.
The reason for using them is that they are more water resistant than using the regular, and most importantly, they are easier to put it compared to multi-LEDs in the main switch, and obviously, this is to make it to easy if it is charging or not, a better method compared to the SP36.
This is looking sick. I’m glad it’s almost ready! Between this and the fw3a I need to get my wallet ready lol. Keep up the good work! (Also is there any news on the LEDs, temperature and cri being used?)