The Lumintop FW3E with GLOWBODY (green, red and blue) has a full copper middle section housing a variation of the known FW3A driver
and will be available with the same LED variations. (listed below)
The big difference to the FW3A is the lack of a inner tube for the switch.
To make that work Lumintop decided to use a USB-rechargeable Battery with exposed negative contact on the top.
Seems more like something my kid would like. Make it fully muggled with a protected battery and price it at $30. Then I’ll consider getting a few so my kids can have flashlights like Dad’s with a fun glow factor for play and camp.
Wow, tough crowd. Overready has been coating lights with glow powder for years. I think this is another great variation of the of the fw3a. Pity there wasn’t a choice of red - green - blue
As much as I liked to get 1, just for fun, it seems that the price is too high for this light. Also, needing a “proprietary” battery, makes it even more expensive in case we want a spare one.
The concept is a mix of gimmick and cool , but the price may turn away many people.
In any case, thanks for the work and the deal, Martin and Lumintop
Well, I must be silly/dull/dumb and easily milked because I have bought from Oveready/FF-lights/Lumintop/BLF/silent ordinance and others manufacturer’s that make lights in brass/copper/stainless steel/Titanium/7075/carbon fiber/zirconium/wood/ABS/sapphire/acrylic (or plastic as you say) and very happy with my purchases Hmmmm.
Would love to get one but honestly, I can’t justify 100$ on a plastic light while the alu version is around 35$. The TI version is around the same price as the proposed glowing plastic version.
I was hyped for this when I thought it would be priced similarly to the aluminum version and thought it would be a standard model, not the “E” version. As cool as I think it is, the price and proprietary battery will have me passing on this.
Proprietory battery ruins it for me. It would seem this would not evenbe usable with a std cell. At least the Olights, for ecample, that needed their own cell to operate with all features intact could be turned on/off with a std cell, if Iremeber correctly.
Maybe kicking in an open door but: buying separate GLOWBODY tails and bezels makes sense?
Or does the magic only happen in the combination of GLOWBODY body and proprietary battery?
And the GLOWBODY tails and bezels are only useable for legoing different colors.