Astrolux/BLF Copper A01 BLF Edition CODE NOW PUBLIC. $20 Solid Copper AAA!!!

one blue, one orange please

Any updates on the copper?

Nope, as stated, we are waiting until after the Chinese New Year to find out for sure. The X5 seems popular and they made that in solid copper, so the capabilities are covered… Just have to make it worth their while on the # ordered…

I would like
1 Copper

I will take it no matter what you do about the keyring.
Just my opinions:
I would like the light to tailstand
I plan to grind off the keyring loop. I do not prefer a square ring hole either, it makes the light hang cockeyed. I dont plan to keychain carry, Im buying it as a nightlight, bedstand duty.

The tailstand is a compromise, the problem being that most will have it on a keyring or lanyard attached to something. Lord knows, in my pockets I tie everything smaller than my wallet together, or it will migrate out of there. Like a bucket of crabs, things stuck together seem to stay where I put them… Still havent figured out the coins…

Tailstanding stability is a compromise with attachment points. The three point system on Fenix lights works well for tailstanding, but cants the light at an angle (cockeyed) when it is on a keychain or lanyard. The KD buckle can tailstand, but is tipsy in two directions. A wider tail attachment point makes it hard to find a decent sized Split Ring to fit… The best solution I have is a good attachment point and then drill a wooden block for something like what you want, good tailstanding ability. So that is why I picked a good attachment point.

On the copper light, the keyring will be very removable, copper is soft. You should be able to do this easily. The loop is supposed to be a D shape to it, curved like the back of the light currently is. My rendering skills suck and the KD Buckle has a square loop, but that was just to show a larger loop hole.

I still think that LED is most probably a NVSL219B-V1 R9050 sw40. That’s not the same as 219B. Someone did some very nice CRI tests… And the results do match my assumption quite accurate.

I would like:
1x Copper
1x Orange

Please add me for 1x Copper please.

Thanks!

I dont understand enough to know the difference but fwiw, the two N219a LEDs that I had tested were both ~4400+ CCT, and ~87 CRI (one prometheus beta and one L08, both with N219a confirmed)

here is a pic of the Beta spectrum

by contrast the Astrolux A01 has a CCT of ~4000 and a CRI of 91

imo the Astrolux LED has awesome specs, better than the N219a for my taste. If we could see a picture of the LED, we can eliminate whether it is an A or a B since they look different, I think, like this:
N219a on left, N219b on right

I think the pic of the Astrolux LED above right does not look like an N219a,

my guess is the specs are correct and it is an N219b… But Im new to all this, all I know is I really like the 91 CRI of the Astrolux.

There were some pictures of the LED, and I can say for sure it’s no 219A. The test results maukka posted are too good for a 219B R85. That results perfectly match the specs of R9050, and that was introduced with the 219B-V1. The 219B-V1 looks very similar to the 219B, but I think there are little differences. I posted them in this thread, #14 on onwards. So maybe, if we had a picture of each a 219B and a 219B-V1 that show the side of them (comment #16 in the thread I mentioned), we could maybe confirm my assumptions and we could easily differentiate 219B and 219B-V1 when they’re already reflowed.

thanks for the link to the photos:

neither of those view angles are available by looking at the LED in the photo I posted

in any case, can you explain what a 219B does different in terms of CCT and CRI, than a 219B-V1? Im still happy the Astrolux A01 has higher CRI than my 219A leds.

I believe the V1 has a lower vF and more efficiency at a given current due to this… I currently have given away all of my samples, but have two on order…

add me to the list for copper x1

thanks,
M

The V1 has lower Vf, that’s right. I stacked a 105C driver for a theoretical current of 5.08A (hooked up to a triple of V1’s) and measured exactly that, with long and thin DMM probes. Gives 1300 OTF lumen with protected cells and even 1200 lumen when cells are nearly depleted. CCT is something that’s related to the binning, 219B’s and 219B-V1’s are available in all kinds of different color bins. The 219C uses another binning system, but let’s focus on the B and B-V1. The highest spec’ed 219B in terms of CRI is R85, where 85 is the minimum CRI. R9050 spec came with the B-V1, meaning minimum CRI of 90 and minimum R9-value of 50, that’s the value that represents saturated red. So with the B-V1 R9050 color rendering should be considerably better, especially for red color tones.

I believe, from looking at the thread specs, the Astrolux A01 is simply the 4000K version of the same 219B-V1 as is in the BLF 348, which is a 5000K LED.

So if you get a BLF 348 and an Astrolux A01, you can have the same emitter in 4000K and 5000K…

That’s what I was trying to say, I’m quite sure it is.

Yeah, and if you want that emitter in 5700K, thus coolwhite high CRI R9050 spec, you can get one of the 5700K rated Jaxman lights with Nichia emitter at fasttech, or get the 4000K ones if you prefer that. That way you can have a lot more lumens, because those are 18650 lights.

Thanks, I thought so… I just wanted to make sure myself by re-reading the other thread.

It is a real nice tint to me at 4000K….

Yep, I also like that 4000K emitter. I prefer both the 4000K and the 5700K over the 5000K with the Nichia V1’s.

Is the Nichia in the ReyLight and Lumintop Tool also similar?:

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If those numbers are correct, then yes, it would be the same as the Reylight and the Tool. I do not have either of those though, so I am relying on the description you posted.