The Nichia version of the Tool AA 2.0 isn’t gone. I recently bought one. They’re often on backorder, because they’re popular and not sold by every vendor that sells the other version.
Including Lumintop’s Ali store, right? Because it’s not available there. (And for me, American sellers are out of the question, shipping is far too expensive.)
EDIT: If the Tool AAA with Nichia is still around, I’d love to hear of it. I seldom take mine out of the house for fear of losing it, that’s how much I love it.
Yes, indeed. Happy to trade away some output for warm tint and higher CRI. That’s a trade I would make with nearly every light that I have. Only exceptions would be the dedicated throwers that I only use off my back porch out into the wilds.
I lost (temporarily) an EDC light that I loved once. EagleTac 25A Titanium. Since then, every light that I take with me out the door, in my pocket, has a lengthy lanyard clipped to it, and connected to my belt loop. Won’t ever lose a pocket light again.
I will have to have a look at the RRT-01. Can it do warm, high CRI, flood? I’m about equally good with 14500, as 16340, even 18350. I just want fairly compact and rechargeable li-ion, not primaries.
The light I lost was clipped to the corner of my pocket. It was found by someone else, later, who realized that it was mine.
Now, with the lanyard, I drop the light into my pocket and never worry about losing it.
Yeah… EagleTac created a masterpiece with the D25 line. I just wish you could get them with warm & high CRI emitters. Mods are possible on at least some of their lights, though.
I also have great appreciation for Olight’s S1A Baton with TIR optic - pop a 3000k XM-L2 under that TIR and the floody beam and warm color are magnificent! Great compact size, too.
The LED is easily accessible (2019 RRT01). I have not even had to disassemle the head completely to get to the MCPCB if memory serves. Not sure if there’s a TIR optics that would fit. The reflector geometry makes a more narrow spill. Best would probably be to stay with a domeless LED, else it might have some artifacts in the beam, but that’s just a guess based on my experiences with other deep smooth reflectors.
I have a Jetbeam Jet I Pro, from about 8 years ago. Great little light, but it’s most definitely a thrower. Deep reflector and tiny XR-E emitter.
Perhaps it could be customized into a floody, warm tint light with an XM-L2, textured reflector, and a TIR?
The bezel is removable, but I don’t know about finding a textured reflector that would fit, or making a TIR fit, somehow. I guess I could ask Vinh to mod it, though.