BLF Thorfire interest group

Very important. Probably my most used mode.

I am interested in Thorfire hosts, depending on availability and price. Might be cheaper/easier to wait for a sale and then buy the whole light though?

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Id be in for a TG06 high CRI nichia. And 4000-5000k lights in general.

Just a test.

moonlight BLF poll: What moonlight output do you prefer and why?

For a true EDC light, moonlight is a must. Thing is, people have different definitions of “moonlight”, and seem to conflate all of them. I prefer to distinguish them as “low-low”, “moonlight”, and “firefly”.

“low-low” is the brightest of the bunch, similar to low but actually lower. It’s probably a few lumens, good for grubbling around in a bag to find your keys.

“moonlight” is next down, maybe 1lm or so, enough for lighting up a clock from across the room at night without ruining your night-vision.

“firefly” is lowest, able to look right at the LED without squinting, a fractional-lumen, just enough to read something close-up without ruining your night-vision.

Again, some people find “moonlight” on their lights to be too bright, others not bright enough. Good luck trying to make everyone happy.

The brightness levels I see on my VG10 are about perfect for me. I’d recommend keeping those. :smiley:

Ditto. Whatever light I have at night, I make sure is set on its lowest setting. I’m even using my S2+ less and less (read, hardly at all anymore) because generic “low” is just way too bright in the middle of the night.

I LOVE CRI

TG05

Lights went out here a few days ago. So time to put my new (Jan. 2017) VG10 to use as a nightlight in moonlight mode. Barely able to tail stand, with a good amount of lean. It would be nice if the switch cap was recessed a little in relation to the tailcap. Really like this light a lot.

I would love a VG-15 XPL-Hi!

Hosts would be excellent to sell in any of your lights. I’ve modded the new version and old version C8s, the TG06, the VG15, and a few VG10s. They are all very easy to mod and it would give us a chance to put what we want in them. I’m sure you’ll sell quite a few more going just the host route because your flashlight bodies are very good quality.

i would love to see a thorfire c8 HOST, also an option to buy spare c8 tail assemblies, plus eventualy a 50mm head c8 version

Update on International shipping:

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Moonlight Update:

Moonlight is important for 80% of us:
YES - 16
NO - 4

Moonlight preferred output (Lumens) :

0.1 lm - 4 or 29%
0.2 lm - 1 7%
0.3 lm - 1 7%
0.5 lm - 1 7%
0.9 lm - 3 or 21%
1.0 lm - 4 or 29%

Interesting that k-wong’s poll showed that 0.5 lumen is the most popular output

Wonder why no one ever had a UI where, say, if you had 4 “slots” of light output, you just set 1-255 “clicks” for each setting (setting to 0 means skip that slot). 1 flash for slot 1, through 4 flashes for slot 4. You set ’em as you want ’em. Lets you set:

• firefly, low, mid, high

• mid, low, mid, high

• high, mid, low, moonlight

or whatever your twisted little hearts desire.

Then, no one’d be bitching about “moonlight” being too bright or too dim, or about HML/LMH ordering, or about mode-spacing, etc.

And 255/0/0/0 would be a 1-mode on/off light. 10/255/0/0 would be moon/turbo. Etc.

Gimme a VG10 with that UI, and I’ll kiss ya on the mouth.

+1 I think it would be a smash hit.

To what frequency PWM, you think would be a good one?

S70S

Anyone would be interested in Thorfire host?
VG-10, C8 ….etc

What parts should be included with the host and which shouldn’t?
tube, head, lens, mcpcb, tail switch, driver etc….