Received a NW yesterday, awesome flashlight! It’s a little hand grenade!
I’m happy with the tint, the snow all melted here so I took it out on a walk and the tint is perfect for me, beautiful neutral color rendering. I don’t notice any of the tri-color rainbow that’s visible indoors on white walls, but it’s not going to be used indoors anyhow, and don’t think I’d want the tint any colder.
The switch feels fine to me, I see how its been described as “mushy” it has some extra spring travel before it clicks, but I guess I’d call it a bit “springy”? But hey all switches aren’t created equal, maybe it could be more precise but it doesn’t bother me at all. It might even help for prevention of accidental turn on, seems like you can depress it very lightly without it turning on. Although you can just do a mechanical lockout by a slight twist of the head. (unscrewing)
I really love the aggressive knurling, it rivals the knurling on my HD2010 and DQG 18650 tiny V1, which have best knurling of all my lights. I also love the “single click-on/off” (Olight) UI. Overall I’m very happy with it, @3800lm it’s the brightest rated light I own now, tomorrow night I’ll take it out again with some other lights and compare brightness.
TC20 battery came fully charged, slightly disconcerting. 4.19 according to lil500. Never had a brand new battery come from factory fully charged. Paranoia big destroyer!
Personally I really like the action of the switch on this. I think there were some complaints it was “mushy” or “sloppy” or something, I think I said this before but to me it seems like a just a longer “throw” than other side e-switches that feel more “precise”
I think why I like it is that it takes less effort to use. But interestingly it seems more effort for accidental turn on.
Owned a D4 XP-G2 model and now own the XP-L HI model…I’d be surprised if I could hold either of them more than 15 seconds on FULL brightness without gloves (which I rarely wear). Their highest levels are definitely for “show” or for quick scans of an area far away. If I were interested in sustained brightness to a larger area at some distance, I always picked up the Acebeam EC 50 Gen II that was mentioned here earlier (excellent light I sold recently to fund something else). This Thrunite definitely looks like a nice blend of features and power to me.