Got my raw aluminum and Ti-Cu last week. Both with 4000K SST-20.
My impressions:
Raw aluminum - Very impressed
- Looks great
- Everything in order and works out of the box
- High-CRI SST-20 have excellent tint. Noticeably less green even than the 4000K SST-20 in my first-run grey FW3A.
Ti-Cu - Not impressed
- Did not work out of the box - head retaining ring was loose, but even after tightening it and tailcap, light still did not work.
- Finally got it to work, but only when I pressed the button really hard. Problem identified as being a defective microswitch. The switch had a noticeable click, but only made contact internally when pressed extremely hard. Fixed it by replacing the tailcap PCB and switch with one from an aluminum FW3A. Now it works.
- Light came missing the o-ring at the tailcap that is meant to prevent the clip from rotating.
- Tint is comparable to the first-run grey 4000K SST-20 FW3A. Still good, but noticeably worse than the tint in the raw aluminum FW3A.
- Once I fixed all the problems (which required canabalizing an earlier model FW3A), the light now works fine and looks good.