:nerd_face: [nerd mode] The finished product should be relatively ok, you will not inhale your flashlight. You can maybe get sensitised via skin. The main problem would be the manufacturing, where machining scraps and dust will make it into the air, I would not like to be responsable for an increase of ill chinese workers because we like our beryllium flashlight. [/nerd mode]
I kind of like a SS version of the FW3A, luckily Anduril allows setting a max-ramp level to stick to, repeatedly using turbo will eventually kill your flashlight (like it killed my Reylight Ti with FET-driver, still have to rebuild that one sometime)
I’d love a tungsten one, the FW3A is built so thin that you get away with the weight increase.
We know what the books on high-school say, but the specific mass of the actual metals used may vary.
Given the different properties of the metals it is not sure the lights have perfect identical dimensions.
But I am as curious as the next guy, so I dusted off my old abacus and got a (ball park) weight of 109 gram.
I love my abacus. It is the best abacus. A fine abacus. A hard working true abacus.
The other day it body slammed a calculator. That will teach them to say bleep.
BTW, when they start making a stainless steel FW3A, I sure am interested in buying an SS bezel.
Not for the looks of it, but for protecting the lens and optics of the light…
I am hopelessly lost which FWXX variations there are out right now and which ones are planned. Is there like a table or anything to see what’s available and what is currently in the making? Also I think the FW3A is milked just a little too much.
To each it’s own i guess. Think how many times you were thinking- jeez i wish that light is available in (put material type here). I think such choice of different types is a great thing.
Adding anodize color and material variations is just a natural progression to a hugely popular product.
Look at the current and very popular LT1 BLF lantern. Not even perhaps 200 units out of the gate (out of 3000+ confirmed interests) and now it is gathering a poll on new color variations!
For a guide to the current FW3xx variations, perhaps this would help through the maze: