I’m thankful of Thorfire for giving me the chance to do this review and because it’s cost me nothing I’m happy to gift it to another BLF’er. To cut down on postage cost I’ll put the spare bits in the tube and ship it in a jiffy bag rather than the box. I’ve not checked on postage costs and I’d prefer to limit it to UK only but as long as it’s not more than £5 to post I’ll cover that shipping to wherever. I’ll give it two weeks to see who might want in on this. It also ties in perfectly with it being the end of the month.
Put your name down if you’d like to win this light. If you’ve got a sob story or another reason as to why you want this light put something next to your name and I’ll put your name in TWICE.
…. I might just scrap the whole sob story but the list will keep getting updated.
I personally feel that the change in tint and the extra mode (and output) are worth it. Sure it could have had a XPL-HI and it’d have been EPIC but as it is, it’s great.
The sob story can be made up if you want. If it makes me laugh I might put your name in three times.
Who knows.
In the end someone else will own this light and I’ll pay to post it to someone if they want it.
If not I’ll gladly keep it as its a cracking little light
SOB story: A friend of mine left Trinidad a year or so ago. She moved back home which was Scotland. I was supposed to give her a light for the farm but we never met (fet moded XinTD). :person_facepalming: Now she has no super light. She has moved to the city now for a job but , I don’t know which city or even if it’s in Scotland or London since we don’t really talk that much anymore. sigh. If I win, she’ll get the light!
(EDIT: I’m not UK based so if I’m not included, it’s perfectly fine ! )
Nice review. The S-model seems to be quite a step forward in performance.
Just bought a VG10 myself. For a song, I might add. Now I’m waiting for the VG10S
Thanks for sharing your review. I like the charts.
Is there some sort of step-down or thermal regulation going on? Somewhere between 2 and 3 minutes, lux falls considerably, and, thereafter, remains flat. I have speculated that the driver in the ThorFire VG15S is similar to the one used by the ThorFire C8s. If true, that would mean that the driver has no PWM, and also that it features a low-voltage warning.
Please include me in your giveaway. I am a bit of a ThorFire fan, so I would love to try this one out. If you want to favor members from the UK, however, I'm okay with that, too.
Here's a true story from my regular Monday backgammon group. We have a standing joke about making sure you pick up your dice cup—rather than your drink—when you go to roll the dice. Well, my friend Larry didn't roll his drink onto the board, but when his coffee came, he did accidentally pour sugar into his dice cup instead of the coffee. I don't think he was trying to "sweeten" his chances, but when he rolled, out came sugar and dice together!
There is definitely a timer controlling the step down. It happens at exactly 3 minutes. I took the results just after the 3 minute mark to indicate stepdown.