Noctigon K1 info / review

My light has arrived in the USA. Now I have to wait for USPS to get it to me. This time of year, my local post office gets a little funky. They will incorrectly claim it was delivered and I’ll have to go the post office to get them to find it and give it to me. I assume they are just overworked at Christmas. Hopefully, this package will get delivered without the run around.

Mine also had made it into the states, 4PX says arrived in destination country airport. Now for customs and USPS. My D4V2 is with it also.

296900cd is 1090m FL1 throw, not 820. Given the reflector size and the performance of similar lights like the Catapult, I’m going with the 820m (168100cd) being closer to reality.

The K1 has a 72mm bezel, which is quite a bit larger, and I expect it to be driven at least as hard. The Acebeam T27 has a 70mm bezel and claims 1180m throw, also using the XHP35 HI. That’s the closest comparison I could easily find.

Here you can find a collection of throw measurements of the lights in question.
Catapult is 151-195 kcd. T27 has only 2 results, 335 and 340.

any runtime graph about the 2mm2 version?

Runtime graphs are overrated, if you use a 4A cell and the light runs on 8, max 30 minutes, that is without stepdown ofcourse
So with stepdown a little longer

Noctigon K1 W1

Just checked out your other pics, can’t wait to get mine. Better spill than I thought it would have.

Runtime graphs are very useful to see stepdowns. I can do maths and calculate that a 4A cell would run for 30 min under a 8A discharge rate, but I need to see a runtime graph to know the max sustained lumens from a flashlight and how efficient the driver is

Nice beamshot Gerrit! Is that somewhere in the Netherlands?, that little wall looks abroad-ish (or Limburg).

The spill is way brighter than I imagine for a W1. I found a pic in that link comparing the K1 with FT03.

True.
Maybe we should call them Lumen output graph instead to distinguish the difference

I’m not sure Jos, I have taken this picture from reddit.com. Posted byu / Indoorslongtime.

And I am hoping that it really does not spill anywhere near that much. I have plenty of lights that have a nice flood and am looking for a true thrower.

Maybe I really do need to be looking at lights with aspheric lenses, though the good ones seem to be much higher priced.

im tempting to get one but im very picky with thrower hot spot not focus.

Can someone confirm teh hot spot is near perfect focus?

There really aren’t any aspheric throwers that can throw farther than the K1. The only one I know of is the Microfire H20. The LEP flashlights use aspheric lens but the tint shift is so bad and the CRI is so poor that you can’t really make out what it illuminates. I own the W30vn CW, W30vn HICRI and W10G2vn CW and while they are fun to play with, they are really more toy than tool.

Texas Ace is testing an aspheric mod with the BLF GT. That would make for a very useful no-spill light.

Vinh still sells the Deerlight X with a Black Flat in it. Rates it at 670kcd.

I don’t have any problem making out what I’m illuminating with my W30 because of tint or CRI, but the beam is so narrow it relegates it to the “toy” pile.

Exactly this !

Any news on when the XHP35 version will be available?