Noctigon K1 info / review

If we as flashaholics keep shining super throwers into buildings our lights are going to become outlawed. Just saying.

Yes the shots are pretty, but no they should not be taken like that where inhabited buildings are concerned. Discretion is key…

Okay so I am at a loss for what to do about my K1. December 16th was the last tracking update from DHL Ecommerce saying transiting the postal network from JFK. Since then my tracking number is no longer in their system, And USPS never received the package from them. No one is helping me. Cant file lost package with USPS because they never received it, DHL “cant” do anything for me, but says it updated as leaving Jamaica on the 20th of december?

I’m with you on this one. Shining at people’s windows is very unkind.

I must consider my lights outlawed by now then, been shining them at my neighbours houses for 7 years now :person_facepalming:
I’m a bit surprised that no-one ever complained about it sofar, I must have relaxed neighbours :beer: :sunglasses:

I’m actually glad you made this comment since I fully agree with you. I was almost going to add a few more notes to my beamshots, but thought “Nah… nobody here will care.” but I was wrong. I am very mindful of shining bright lights into buildings and felt a little guilty. I almost never use my lights in the city. Pretty much all the other beamshots I have ever done have been out in nature where there were no people around and even there, I was actually worried about disturbing animals!

With the building in the first beamshot photo that had Science World (the globe building) below it, as well as the closer one (400 meters), I only took two shots of each and the light was only switched on for about 1.5 seconds each time, just a little longer than the 1 second exposure. On the other vertical shot, with that one I left the light on for some time and took a bunch of photos since I was hand-holding at 1/4 second and wanted to make sure I got at least one sharp one. That building is new, construction is not yet finished and it is not occupied as far as I know.

Thanks. Looking at the whole photo again this morning, one could think that maybe the beam isn’t hitting the building and that one is merely seeing the blue backscatter from the beam, so I decided to make a simple zoomed in animated GIF with no fancy text. Since I had been handholding the shots, the control shot is not lined up perfectly, even after nudging the layer in Photoshop. However one still gets the idea… and yep, zoomed in it is clear that the beam is hitting the top of that building.

Can’t wait. I want some vinh numbers first though

Interesting. I wonder what other people will find on their W2 versions? With my W1, I would say that visually there is only the slightest bit of difference in colour temperature between turbo and much lower power settings. As a guesstimate, 6500K on lower power levels and maybe 7000K on turbo, if that. However that is not measured, just a guess… and oh, that is with my cell at 4.0 volts. I will look at it again when it is fully charged and report back if I feel it is any different…

I wonder why there is no sst40 version, it is an interesting and good LED with high brightness at 2000LM which at the moment none of the K1 versions

I measured the CCT and tint on the W2.

Today, I charged the akku again, cleaned all contacts and smoothed the edge of the pipe. My final measurements:
Lumens 1359
Lux 456K
Range 1351m
CCT 8835K
3.53 degrees angle

The beam is very similar to TN42, which gave me such results:
Lumens 2164
Lux 658K
Range 1623m
CCT 5612K
3.7 degree angle.

As can be seen from the measurements and visually, the beams are very similar only in TN42 a little more power.
I like K1 because it is so inconspicuous.

I meant lm/w efficiency.

Yes, looking at cd/w it looks much better ;)

:+1: Never under estimate the importance of cleaning the contacts. I’ve had brand new lights that doubled in lumen output after cleaning contacts. Used lights need to be cleaned every once in a while too because thread grease or finger grease can get on battery terminals and contacts.

But cd/mm² and lm/W are closely related. Outside of pure floodes it doesn’t make much sense to look at one and ignore the other. And at the level of cd/mm² that this emitter achieves - it is efficient.

@Junkyardbiker

Have you tried the http://en.4px.com/ site? I got daily or up to 4 times per day updates except for the 5(!) days the light was in customs in Chicago. The 4 days 4px told me DHL had it (and where it was) DHL denied they had it. USPS said they were waiting for hand off from day 2 in DHL’s custody until the day after 4px said USPS had it. 4px was right every day and updated me any time anything happened.

Last year China tracking was worthless. Now they’re the best.

I just got mine today. The night was full of mist. By 50 meters all you could see is the beam. At 30 meters it lit up the trees very strongly. Guess I’ll have to wait for a clearer night.

You are probably correct, but I was just looking at 4.62 Amps for 780 Lumens. And felt a little underwhelmed. but that is just the nature of the beast I guess. I should also look at throw.

I set up a measured 30M lux test this evening and compared the GT to the new K1 and my recent upgrade to my 7th scratch build. The K1 did 693Kcd for 1664.93M throw. This equates to 1.04 miles. Very impressive!

Is the K1 stock Dale?

Yup, one of few such in my possession…