[M4D deal] FW3T Titanium Stonewashed - Interest list open

Which LED option is preferred for camping/hiking where throw/turbo is not wanted/needed?

For outdoors, I always recommend the warmer options especially if you don’t need the higher modes.
Both the Nichia and SST20 options will work well for camping. The 3200k XPL 7A is also nice if you don’t mind sacrificing some color rendering for output.

Looks like the warm white xpl hi 7a is not available in any of the titanium, copper, or colored aluminum versions. Only available with the original grey aluminum.

Neal tries to get some 7A into the FW3T

Just placed my order for a stonewashed ti version plus a blue tritium optic, sky blue glow gasket and couple batteries. Ended up going with the 3D emitter. Noob to this modable flashlight hobby, so we’ll see how it turns out!

Just ordered my polished Ti!

Got me a stonewashed SST20 - thanks :+1:

Same! And got my wife a purple SST20 too :slight_smile:

That wife of yours will love for that buddy, good move!

Ordered a stonewashed SST20 – thanks

The all-polished Ti looks amazing.

But I ended up ordering a Ti-Cu. I’m not sure pure Ti could handle turbo heat without desoldering itself.

If you compare these lights to an HDS/Oveready BOSS/Prometheus light/etc this is the cheapest what I would call an exotic/custom light out there!! - does pretty much what theirs do but smaller/cheaper so you can buy 4 FW3’s (in Ti) to 1 of theirs.

Pretty sure it would be 10 FW3T to 1 HDS Ti, but hardly apples to apples. Both amazing.

It couldn’t desolder itself as the electronics would throttle it back from heat way before that would happen - I thought about getting the Ti/Cu one too but in reality you will only get an extra 5 seconds maybe in boosted time before it throttles back once the Cu is saturated in heat, I just didn’t want the middle to be the weak point with all that Ti because the Cu tube is only about 1.5mm at it’s thickest the tread and 1mm where there is no thread.

Copper and brass lights are pretty, but… I work in the semiconductor industry and I like to use my lights at work. Copper is a big-time contaminant when it comes to manufacturing microprocessors. Even just touching a copper component and then touching a piece of equipment without changing gloves can cause major contamination. So, stonewashed titanium for me :smiley:

Would having the all-copper FW3C make significant difference or is the mass of the flashlight just too small?

I don’t plan on using the turbo much so maybe I can get away with an all Titanium build?

Yes the all Cu one would be the coolest running of all of them, but you would also have the softest metal of all (I personally wouldn’t want to drop it on a hard surface as it would dent/scratch easily) But I think you are right saying “the mass is just too small”
IMO the Ti one would probably be better run in the muggle mode, that way it wouldn’t overheat and still having heat protection for backup, all Ti custom lights have fairly low output compared to Alu/copper, anyway most get Ti for coolnessbulletproofnessarmagedoness :smiley:

Got a polished ti ordered. Hopefully there isn’t a wait on the polished like there is for the stonewashed. Does anyone know if the polished are shipping yet?

I put an order in for a Polished Ti on 8/7/2019 and it has not yet shipped. It’s getting pretty close to the estimated ship date for the stonewashed, which is 8/20/2019.

Oh well, for me if I need almost 3,000 lumens of illumination for a long period I wouldn’t be using my FW3A at all but some other light.

It’s simply too much requirement for this little baby.