I am a BIG FAN of hands free, body mounted trail lighting, and have always wanted one of these lights, but like anything else hyper-marketed as “tactical” its very pricey at $60-$80. Our buddy Craig (Illumination Supply) set me up with a great deal I simply couldn’t refuse.
Just pics for now… impressions to follow.
Cheers BLFers
Rubberized tailcap switch and tailcap lock.
Switching the orange lever to UV activates the UV emitter. Pressing the tail button with the UV emitter on, activates a very slow UV ON-OFF-ON-OFF cycle mode. Its about a 2Hz ON-OFF cycle.
Selectable RGB. Each LED is comntrolled by its own switch, you can run them one at a time, all at once or any two. Each has 3 output levels.
100 Lumens from the XRE-EZ900 and a small TIR optic. Also has LO and MED output modes too. It is controlled by the rubberized tailcap switch.
RGBW, each LED output is controlled independently.
Ruberized switch pannel, press buttons for light. The orange main switch can be rotated to the left for UV mode, middle locks out the circuits entirely, and to the right is the general RGB+W mode
Thick, snug O-ring gasket seals the battery compartment. Battery power is slick and as sophisticated as the UI. Both cells drop into the light with the same polarity, + side down. The light will also work with 1AA, but at reduced output levels to conserve power. If you flip the battery over, + side up that cell becomes inactive and can be used to store an extra backup cell.
Attaches securely to my pack strap for hands free trail lighting. It would be equally at home on a MOLLE vest with other gear.
Hmmm, just curious how you know what camera Kramer used? I think that is an older camera that I was interested in quite some time ago, but a great one that had a reputation for taking great pictures. Thanks.
Wow I didn’t think molle attachable lights were this popular. Heres a size comparison with my other hands free trail blazers…
Despite its size its not that much heavier than the MC10.
This light has a nasty PWM at all lower modes. I am not sure what the exact frequency is but I think its around 130Hz. Bummers, thats my biggest complaint so far.
My SF-E2L measured 110L in the BC sphere. The night strike is spot on identical to it on a ceiling bounce, so its rated very honestly at 100L.
Heres the beam on a white wall. Its like an unfocused aspheric, but with softer, more gradual edges. It has a very (and I mean hardly visible) slight yellow tint in the middle where one would expect a hot spot to be. I am generally not a fan of de-focused aspheric “moon beam” type projections, and thats kind of what this one resembles. I think they did a good job however compromising between too throwey and too floody, its a nice medium-range general use kind of beam. Just for the heck of it I used a piece of frosted scotch tape over the lens and it very nicely flooded out the beam.
All colors at once, with the white XRE set to LO.
I’d show you the effects of the UV light, but I (honestly) only have $1 bills in my wallet and dont have anything with anti-counterfeit glow stuff in them… LOL
I have the cheapo version of these from eveready the 2AAA ones sold on woot.they sold as pairs and I think I bought 3 for 20 or 6 lights for 20$.. for 3.33$ a piece they are a very useful little light red green and a lil nichia white ...simple and well thought out..at some point these manufactureres might just surprise us .. ..a lil under 40$ was the best I saw on google
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