Ok now i agree with tom tom . This transaction hasn’t been completed till i get to twisting lights for throw and enter into full blown buyers remorse . If perchance that doesn’t occur then subtle brooding that I should’ve bought a few more might remain instead
Either way lets be not happy together ... lets fret about the possible issues and worry that we may not be happy with our purchase . Knowing all the while that it’s the only course of action we can take . Damn grumpy is hard .
Our only solice remains in the hope that when we’ve passed on someone will finally know that we had unwittingly purchased a few great lights .. ones almost as good as their Atomic Beams /nebo lights and Big Larrys .
Cometa — > In Italian I think it means ..
catch a falling star and put it in your pocket gonna start the house on fire’
Now i got a mail from BG. They informed me that the Cometa is out of stock. They refunded the money (nice i already ordered leds for the host).
They told me i could buy the light from UK warehouse. Sure for 2x the price!!! This is soooo fu…… up BG!!
Do they really think we are a stupid herd of sheep? Thanks BG :+1:
Hey Docc, I have bought two Cometa’s and could spare one, but shipping to Germany is 13 euro, so that would just as well double the costs, that does not help. I just mention it so if you or someone you know are by any chance coming near Amsterdam one of these days you can pick it up.
Thanks.
I will ask my uncle if he still workes a few days a month in NL (he workes for Hoya). If he is no longer working in NL i want to ask Paul for a Z1 Host (23,55€ for a Cometa is to much!). Before i spent ~24€ on a Cometa i add a few bucks and buy a Z1! Could be interesting to see the lights side by side. But i was hoping to see the Rebel Lime and the LCG H9RN side by side in the same host.
One Question off topic.
I searched BLF about a coated lens for the 1504. There was a lot of posts about the light and MEM did a custom run on lenses. . . . but all links i can find are dead or lead to nothing.
Has anybody a tip where i could get a good lens like a K9 ar coated for the 1504?
Wellp, I finally got my first order, played with it, seems nice. No spacers/insulators at either the driver or tailswitch.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There’s always a boom tomorrow…
Still, it’s pretty bright, dunno if it’s 1300lm based on ceiling-bounce, but it could be the cell I used for testing (kinda old, ain’t sweating it).
I hate the Bat Signal, though. Always did, not a fault of the light itself, just the nature of the beast.
Wish I could put a stop for just a turn or two away from fully-zoomed to prevent that, leave a kind of ugly blurry rounded-square instead of a speckled image of a lit chip.
All in all, it’d makes a decent host, but even leaving it as-is (got the 3B, nice tint), it’s a nice light. For the price, it’s a steal.
Hmm, maybe I should get a dozen, sell them to unsuspecting widows and orphans. :smiling_imp:
Took mine with me to rural France, where i am now.
Just reassembled it as is.
Al works well, and the black parts inside the head make for a clean beam without rings, unlike my Brinyte B158B…
More lumens and considerably more heat than the Brinyte which runs a neutral warmish old stock XP-G2 on 3 Amperes.
The Brinyte outthrows the Cometa of course (no surprise).
Despite the switch boot hugging the switch button, no problems whatsoever with the Cometa.
I ordered some brand spanking new Osram #####.TG LEDs from Led4power, i’ll try one in the Cometa with a FET CC driver at 4 - 4.5 Amperes.
Should be fun! :sunglasses:
Just took a few shots during disassembly. I guess the driver is a little small for the pocket but with the driver ring, it stays in place well enough. I have some Utorch s2+ clones coming and I really like this driver.
This pill is great! The thin o ring is used as Lightbringers’ anti-batman signal bumper and the thicker o ring acts as a grip I put on the tailcap. The pringled insulator is back there but I put on some kapton tape for additional insulation.
Is that lens coating durable enought to handle my OCD polishing and removal of dust particles?