The FW1A doesn’t have a list of literally thousands of people waiting to buy it, so I don’t expect there will be a lot of colors to choose from. Probably just grey. That could maybe change eventually, but it’s far less popular than the original FW3A because it’s a spinoff, so the chance of multiple flavors is probably not very high.
It’s probably also worth mentioning that if the grey one sells well, the chance of multiple colors increases. If the grey one doesn’t sell well, there probably won’t be other colors.
It’s a good light though, so I hope it sticks around.
I guess the problem here is that most of us are probably holding out for different colours and finishes and therefore not buying the standard grey one, causing Lumintop to think there’s not enough demand and therefore not produce any other variants!
I’ve gotta say my bare Alminum FW1A (converted from a triple) has really been serving me well as my EDC. I’m still using an S2+ reflector with a sliced 4K SST20. If I had a complaint, it’d be the beam was actually a bit too narrow. If there ever is a HiCRI SST40 or SST70, that’d make it perfect IMO as a do-it-all light.
Anxiously waiting for mine. I am always a thrower person. Fw3a was never attractive to me just because it is multipla emitter light. Fw1a is perfect to me.
I have thought about it and may do so. If I come across - or someone points me towards - a known good tint of the Samsung emitter then I’ll do that. For now, I’m mostly content. I have the stock FW3As if I need more flood.
Another emitter option I’ve been tossing around is a quad e21a with a heavy OP reflector.
So it isn’t just me. I have two gray FW3As because I bought them both before the colors came out, now I don’t really want another gray one. The FW1A and FW3a share most of their anodized parts, seems like all they’d have to do is start making the same colors of the longer head.
I want the FW1A, but I know as soon I buy one the next day they’ll announce all the new colors.
Got my FW1A today… all I can say is wow! I really like this body style, easy to hold and use. Mine is an SST-20 in 4000k and the tint is amazing! The tint on this one is very rosey, reminds me of a Nichia 4000k led! I can find no green in this one, I have really fallen for the SST-20 FD2 bin in the FW3A and this is a better tint or the reflector makes it better. I would love to know if this is an FD2, I suspect the FW3A lights were FD2 after I built a known FD2 for comparison.
I thought this would need a SMO reflector, but the beam is almost to tight with the OP reflector. Just found my new favorite single emitter EDC!
Interesting to hear that the tint is rosier than in the FW3A, which is not bad already. You can see if the tint difference is due to the optic vs reflector if you remove the optic and reflector and shine both the FW3A and FW1A against the wall so see if one is rosier than the other. However, I’m thinking the FW1A with one emitter is driven harder at the same level so it will run rosier than the FW3A.
That’s exactly it. The SST20 has so much tint shift vs If. Single emitter setups look great. Triples at reasonable power levels though are almost always green shifted.
Yeah, that’s my concern about the FW1A too. There’s a good chance I’ll change the LED in mine, since Neal sent me a cool white one… and I’m thinking maybe LH351D if I can get it in a good bin. That should really cut down on how throwy it is. Or perhaps an old XM-L2, since those were also reasonably decent in a reflector and can handle full FET power. Or I think I might have an original XP-L 3D in a parts tray somewhere…
SST-20 would definitely be too throwy, but at least it’d have better tint than in the FW3A.