3.“for future optics. the optics company are start to make another prototype to make it same as carclo 10511 optics. If the result is good, will use that optics in the future.before it in production,will send them to TK,Kay and other reviews to compare”.
I can sympathize with Lumintop wanting another source of optics. The Carclo 10511 is not the most popular of Carlo’s 20mm triple-TIR optics. Understandable that there might be long lead times when ordering it in quantity like Lumintop must. Also understandable that Lumintop would not want to have to delay shipment of future orders 4-6 weeks just to wait for optics.
A Carclo clone by a different company that still uses the glass lens sounds like the best solution going forward. That’s my issue, I don’t care if it’s a name brand Carclo, I just want the glass lens so I can swap them around. I have an extra 10507, 10511, and 10508 laying around.
As long as there is a lens all should be good. Optics can be easily changed, and although Lumintop apparently has trouble sourcing them, cough cough, I find them very easily online, with very large quantities in stock.
Basically it sounds as though they are having a lens built to exactly match the Carclo. Like Neal said, some will be sent to various people to test before they are used in production. If they preform as good as the Carclo, great.
If they don’t, at least it is a fairly simple swap to a Carclo.
I’m ’thinking’ behind glass they will probably end up preforming about the same as the Carclo behind glass.
Is there any estimate of when the colored lights will be available? I must get a purple TK Special for my wife. Will the colored lights be available through Neal’s Gadgets like the current versions?
So if I’m reading this correctly, those who have ordered the FW3C don’t need to do anything because Neal isn’t shipping those out until the 10511s arrive. Is this everyone else’s understanding?