+1 … In reality we have no idea for the “growth” of the clip.
Mistake or choice… it is what it is. To my way of thinking 0.01181 inch on each side is not that big a deal.
As far as clip color, in the pictures it looks just fine. When compared with the Zebralight clip in the bottom picture you can see the FW3A clip is not black. And thankfully it is not painted either.
The hole in the clip tip…… who knows?? All we can do is guess, & that changes nothing.
Yeah the clip without the hole (top picture right) would have been just fine… but apparently that is not gonna happen. We will survive….
my .02, ymmv
Pictures by Bluzie:
FW3A clip on left / Zebrelight SC 700d clip on right
I’d wish I never seen the original design which I can’t “unsee” :person_facepalming: because as it is, it looks great. Job well done :+1:
Without actual rival for such flashlight (featurewise), Lumintop will probably hardly keep up with the demand, it’s all the bad I wish for them.
@Toykeeper, could you please ask Lumintop/Neal if they could order LH351Ds from say Digikey/Arrow, and tell them that we are willing to pay a higher price for them if they can get it?
I know they don’t want to pay the 20-25% taxes in relation to this, but a higher priced LH351D might allieavate this.
Do we have confirmation that the issue is actually taxes (or even cost-related)? I would think they'd have mentioned that, given how readily they said "XPL-HI costs more". It would probably be pretty easy for Lumintop to sell a LH351D version for the same price as XPL-HI...
I see now why the FW3A clip (photo left) sticks out, probably because they needed it to be wider for strength. If flush to the surface the clip would be too thin and weak. My guess on the hole would be for some strain relief and flexibility. (I just hope that it’s an optical illusion or proto-type that the two edges of the clip aren’t equal width.) FWIW, Fritz’s original design stuck out too.
The ZL clip (photo right) is significantly wider and oriented differently. Some might find it too prominent on the face of the light.
They appear to be FB4. I have the same in my D4 and D4S and have been happy with them. I’d love to have some below BBL, but like Scallywag said, I’ve never seen one to date.
I should probably go ahead and get another one since I’d like one in the first batch and it sounds like the high CRI will be further down the road. So if you can put me down for two instead of 1 like in my original post. Thanks for all the amazing work guys!