Emisar D1 / D1S review

fixed for you.

I’ll include my D1S tracking info so you don’t feel left out. “Send to Chicago 11/08”

Number: LSxxCN
Package Status: In Transit
Destination Country: United States
2017-11-07 02:05 Origin Post is Preparing Shipment, We have received notice that the originating post is preparing to dispatch this mail piece.
2017-11-07 02:05 CHINA, GUANGZHOU EMS, Processed Through Facility
Origin Country: China
2017-11-08 22:42 Guangzhou, leave Guangzhou sent to Guangzhou Express Company
2017-11-08 22:42 Guangzhou, leave Guangzhou and send to Chicago.
2017-11-06 18:42 Guangzhou, Guangzhou Postal Courier logistics Company International Business Branch has received (name of the Collector: Jianbo, Tel: 18818911168)

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Mine arrived from China today!

Since it requires soldering for each reflash, I’ve been kinda waiting until I go back to tweak thermal regulation again… and I’ve dragged my feet on that because it’s a long and obnoxious process.

My last D4 thermal regulation test showed some pretty annoying oscillation, but perhaps it’d be fine on something with a lower power-to-mass ratio. Perhaps I should flash the D1 as-is and find out.

Wish these enthusiast lights would create a way to easily re-flash the light. Now that mfg’s have entire lines of fancy lights it makes sense. You want to keep a user in your product line give them a consistent experience from light to light through firmware updates.

Reflashing by USB would be great!

Finding a place to fit a USB port, though, is not so great. Or fitting the internals to handle it.

With a bigger MCU, though, direct USB reflashing is at least possible. Some of the atmega chips support it. They’re a bit overkill for flashlight purposes, but it was nice being able to reflash my keyboard that way.

Just did in grey :slight_smile:

I ordered a grey D1S from Neal and got the same phone number email. That was on the 4th. No word as yet on the light…

The D1S is a bit odd-looking, TBH.

I can’t quite put my finger on why exactly, but something about its strictly utilitarian minimalist design makes it seem distinctly different than other lights. It’s like it sheds a pretense of being aesthetic in nature and instead is unabashedly functional in an unromantic and frugal kind of way. It has not a single detail which can truly be called fanciful or cosmetic, posh or indulgent. Even the label on its tailcap serves a practical purpose, to indicate make, model, and what it does. Not unlike the first few days of owning a label maker, in which everything in the house receives plain labels like “table”, “door”, or “cat” (sorry about that, Mister Bigglesworth). Its strict adherence to purely pragmatic plain-ness is kind of an aesthetic of its own, like manufactured buildings made entirely of right angles and concrete. Or, more appropriately, like a rocket which consists only of an exhaust cone and a column of fuel.

I kind of like it better in 18350 shorty form, because then it’s even more blatant that it’s mostly just a big reflector with a power source and a shell, and really challenges traditional ideas of what a flashlight is supposed to look like.

It is, regardless, very good at what it does… but “what it does” is not “look pretty on a shelf”. It’s made to be used.

i ask neal about the mails

i know his gmail sometimes is buggy due to chinese censorship....

That isn’t entirely true though TK, the fins on the head are conjunctive to the reflector, not the emitter shelf, and as such are more cosmetic than efficient. I like how it follows the form of it’s lesser siblings, enlarged only to serve as a holder for the larger objective: throw.

I may take that a step further and machine a second enlargement to hold a yet larger reflector, somehow it just begs for it. :slight_smile:

If you do, be sure to get the shorty tube working too. Instead of a tube light, it can be a pyramid light! Or a Towers of Hanoi light.

Yep, already thought of that too. :wink: Could be a de-domed XP-G2 in the future for mine, don’t know yet, have to see it and let it speak to me. :slight_smile:

Edit: May even have to re-visit the XP-E2 Torch. :smiley:

Same light(& a D4), same color, same date, same update(not yet)

If you you stand the D1S with the head down it looks not so od.

And a yellow D4 must look like a minion.

Received my D1s and 2 Aspire 18350 battery’s from Neil today, 12 days to Australia and very well packed.

Beat ya! My D1S just arrived from Neal in 11 days!

I think the slight aesthetic oddity of the D1S is mostly the short length of the host relative to its head diameter.

For those who received their D1S in the US already, did your tracking give updates? Mine hasn’t updated since the first processed through notification.

Ordered mine from Intl Outdoors on the 15th in Aus, hoping for a tracking number as parcel theft is a major issue around my area.

Havenot been this exited for a light in a while, should be good after my Klarus shat the bed.

$88 Aud plus cost of cells in this country, still cheaper than some of my others for the output.

Mine got stolen together with one 18350 :frowning:
Says DELIVERED at/in mailbox but it wasnt there when i came from work