FW3A, a TLF/BLF EDC flashlight - SST-20 available, coupon codes public

Thank you so much! I appreciate all the hard work and effort.

Can’t stand on the fence anymore… The 2nd prototype photos and the specs SOLD me!!

Please add me to the interest list for one also… Thank you.

Interested for one.

Interested in one

Thanks

Pleas add me to the list for one.
Thanks!

I put him for one.
If you want more, please: publish it.

I’m interested in 1 please.

Well, this thread took a somewhat embarrassing turn. I’m glad people like it though. :slight_smile:

Interested in 1 please!

Also, its probably been asked already but will the ramping on this have speed similar to the D4/D1? I have a Neutron V3 and the ramping is painfully slow compared to those.

The ramp is 150 steps at 16 ms per step, or 2.5 s total from end to end.

Damn you, FW3A team, please add me to your list for one, thanks!!

Are there any videos showing how the candle and sunset features look?

3 minutes of candle

lightning demo

could not find sunset in a quick search, maybe TK has a video and I just didn’t see it in my quick search. Then again, probably not very interesting unless it is time lapsed.

I searched for
watch glass 1.5mm
with http://pandacheck.com

and found this

Don’t know if it’s good
But there are also sapphire glass. Is this used for flashlights at all?

And in the first post the thickness is stated with over 2mm

Today ends the poll for the LEDs?

Pleas add me to the list for one.
Thanks!

Awesome, for anyone wondering I just timed the Neutron and the time is roughly 6 seconds from min ramp to max ramp so thats significantly faster on the FW3A. :+1:

Should work fine, and sapphire works too, I have build a sapphire lens in my D4, it has 94% transmissivity.

Hmmm, I guess they’re sort of like blinky modes. They don’t look realistic to me, but I’m not sure what I was expecting. OTOH, they’re well done; I don’t see any sign of a repeating cycle.

As we discussed, it probably has less transmissivity but light reflected off it hits the reflector and has a chance to return - so overall it ended up with 6% loss.
If the second-chance emission hypothesis is true, TIR lights like FW3A won’t benefit from it because most of the light that bounces off the lens will hit flashlight walls eventually.