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Bluzie posted here.

Thank you both.

So in his photo, left is proto5 and right is proto4?

Yes. I believe that’s correct, though I think this is more production sample than prototype.

Well for me that makes the new clip look like something they found in the junk drawer.

Those are some very good & detailed pictures.

It looks very good too.

Thanks to all who put forth the endless hours to get the project this far!!

Thanks TK for your endless effort here on BLF to keep this on track. :beer:

Yeah, much prefer proto4’s clip, but ah well. It’s not a sufficient enough reason to deter me.

its been so long a journey…
will clips be available separately ?

Sorry, but the clip in black just still looks very bad to me. And if it’s not paint, I might not even be able to remove the color(?). Big meh for me.

And it’s not all about the color - a good portion also is about Lumintop’s attitude. This light is all about the design. And Lumintop seems to be like “yeah, let’s just slap whatever clip we have lying around onto that thing”. If that change really was an informed decision and they had the clips just produced for this specific light, the changes are just beyond me.

I am not a fan of the pimple extractor hole at the tip of the clip either, but at least that was already present in the initial 3D renderings.

I am glad to hear the rest works fine though. I just really wish the communication efforts by Lumintop were better and other than “it is fit”.

The only good reason to chose that clip is if they got them for free - I can’t believe they paid to have them made that way on purpose

Sorry, but this had me ROLLING! :rofl:

Didn’t TK say the tailcap isn’t glued?
Whoever doesn’t like the clip can remove and/or replace it.

How about for warts?

simple as dedoming an led :confounded:

Ooooh, I like the change to a lightly frosted optic vs what they had before. That’ll be a good combo with the throwier emitters I think. Just enough diffusion to get a good close range beam with the throwier emitters this will probably ship with.

The 10511 “frosted narrow spot” optics are the ones mentioned/specified in the OP, the prototypes had wider optics, probably because that’s what lumintop had lying around. Wouldn’t surprise me if they just changed the optics to fully clear ones without notice though lol.

The newest photographed one on TLF definitely doesn’t have clear optics, they’re frosted but its not nearly as aggressive as the earlier optics.

It might appear that way, but I don’t think it’s really Lumintop. They’ve mostly just done as their client asked. What’s weird is, the way the project is set up, BLF/TLF are not the client. So Lumintop hasn’t been talking to BLF/TLF about this project, they’ve been talking to their client. This makes things a little frustrating for people on the forums.

Hmmmm…. Who is the “client”… Neil??