I didn’t read it that way. I think they were saying they would support efforts to build such a beast so you didn’t need to have a wavien collar made by an “outlaw” group.
Even after arranging a legitimate buy of collars they chose to use the term. I think I know what was meant by it. Lumping our own purpose built and unique lights into their counterfeit warning is pretty low. If you want to remind us of the terms of the purchase and offer to collaborate on a licensed light you definitely do not have to word it like that.
No he specifically said it is fine for you to build you own unique lights or use the collars for research.
He was even aware of what the GT is and how much work BLF put into it, so clearly he cares about the flashlight community.
The discussion I had with him was about mass production retail lights like the GT.
Getting a chinese manufacturer to make a flashlight with a collar is definitely possible, as you may have seen from my previous thread about making my own collars using cheap chinese spherical mirrors, but selling lights that use it would be against the law because Meadowstar is regulating the patent.
Don’t be one of those people that gets offended for literally no reason.
Everyone is aware of how easy it is to get some chinese manufacturers to make fake products and infringe on IP.
Playing with my GT and MF-04 last night,I disliked those huge circles of light around the central beam,so I would like to do something to eliminate them,one way or the other,and the collar could be one of them.So,I wait and see hoping that this could be possible. :question:
Do you think that it is possible to put a aspheric lens to the GT or the MF-O4/?I prefer the second one,because I could convert the GT to a many lumens 70.2 light.
I think the GT is better for collar AND aspheric lens, because the head consists of two parts. You can screw the reflector-housing off from the LED-Base. With this you can set a better focus to the aspheric lens / fresnel lens.
But the GT is better for XHP70.2 because you can use it with more batteries and the cooling-fins are much better.
I think you (and me) need a second GT! (because I have similar ideas).
Keep in mind, for the XHP70.2 with an other driver (e.g. 12V and 8-9 Amps), that the MF04 has 2S2P Battery and the GT (2x)1P4S.