It used to be in a different price range, but presently it’s only USD 8:- (60% off), so it certainly could be an option.
Nah, IMHO the A01 is a totally different light (I own both), MUCH warmer tint LED, Twisty head mode selector (I HATE that!).
The neutral rosy tint of the original BLF 348 Nichia LED is just PERFECT, it´s the best light I own in terms of CRI and color, even among all the Nichia lights I have. The Astrolux S41 Nichia comes close, but not 100%, and the A01 LEd is just too warm for my taste, it´s almost yellow…
I´d take another original BLF 348 when it gets EXACTLY the same LED again. But the light would be perfect for me with the following changes:
- a little more grippable surface (the stainless steel body is just too slippy)
- 2 Mode driver (switch): keep the nice reverse clicky switch, but add one 10% mode selectable by short click
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But that would ruin the design though…
I like it because it’s just a pretty piece of stainless steel pipe.
(I prefer them without the brand on them).
Yes, that would be nice.
I looked up the specs, I didn’t know it had 5000k. I love my 4500k, but that is a significant difference. I’ll take the modes over this though, if it had the modes I’d love it just as much or more!
Must say though, as a gift to ‘normal people’ (lol) just one mode is perhaps better, because they want light to see something and it’s either on or off, simple and functional.
If this A01 was a 1-mode critter (twisty, after all!), I’d buy the whole rainbow of ’em. Yeah, even for an AAA light. 
I love the sealed-back design. Aside from the front glass, that’s only 1 weak point now, and that’s where the head screws onto the tube. One less point of water ingress…
For a keychain light? Absolutely!
For EDC, sure, get a jack-of-all-trades (and master of none) flashlight what all kinds of modes, no worries. For a simple keychain light? On/off is usually plenty. If you want moonlight in the middle of the night, by the time you flip through all the other modes, you’re already night-blind.
I have so many “special-purpose” lights that are 1-mode only. The most high-rel lights are 1-mode only. 7135-based lights have parallellism in their favor (no µC to go mental on you), and simple resistored-DD lights are even simpler at the expense of current-regulation (ie, light drops off as the cell is discharged).
I only use “modes” when I’ve got other lights to back me up. That light I can afford to be a JOAT as far as brightness, but the beam is still the exact same across all modes.
That’s why for most “normal people”, I’ll recommend a zoomie, even though I generally dislike ’em (except if the moveble head were welded into a permaflood position). But for muggles, yeah, zoomies give ’em that range from flood to batsignal, dim to bright.
But for those who can’t handle even that, who view those with disdain, who want a simple on/off just like their plastic-tube glass-bulb 2×D drugstore special, hey, give ’em what they want.
I know someone who doesn’t seem to remember that lights can have modes, and who’ll leave the light on whatever mode it was last in, and doesn’t/can’t figure that it can be changed brighter/dimmer. People like that, they’ll be disgruntled that the damned light is so dim and good for $#$#&! (Nevermind that it’s stuck in moonlight mode.)
Let’s face it. We’re not normal people.
The grey one’s not bad but the other colors don’t do anything for me. It also just doesn’t have the same sexiness that the BLF 348 has. But it does have the modes and the lanyard hole. The other drawback for me is that it is a twisty, I prefer a clicky, forward if possible.
BTW: For those of you Cu freaks, they do have a copper version as well.
Just note that that price is only good for five more days.
The price has increased to 9.50 :-/
So is there a verdict on this? What’s the odds of production kicking into gear again?
Good news! There will be a lanyard hole.
…but we need to gather quite a lot of interest… 1000pcs. I think that can be done. What do you think? I’ll put up a GB thread still today… 
I will buy at least 2 pcs.
Thanks. Added to the list on GB thread: GBGB: 4th batch of BLF-348 (Classy and Small 1xAAA Stainless Steel light, with Nichia NVSW219B-V1 R9050) - Coupon published!
Thanks, but i want no box and no engraving.
And i thought it was gonna be warm white like the previous batch (if i’m not mistaking).
Last one was marked as “5000K” and this will be exactly the same.
Exact tint is a bit below that, see lab results attached: (thank you maukka for testing these!)
Sorry, my bad…
Ah…And that’s supposed to make everything clear to me? lol.
Thanks the
Yes it is.
Totally different emitter.
I don’t understand most of that either, but top right > CCT: 4739K