[♛ FreemeGB] Fireflies PL47 Gen II 4*XP-L/ Nichia/ SST20 Hi CRI 21700 Right Angle Flashlight - ENDED

Best ask Lexel, I’m pretty sure it’s one of his.

If you search hard you might find an image where all (Lexel) pins are labelled. Turned around from how everyone else has been doing it for years. Simple enough to buzz it out, if you are prepared to remove the driver. But I think he would prefer to keep it a proprietary mystery, along with his derivative driver designs, and discourage others who prefer open-ness. And make proprietary programming keys that don’t fit anything else.

Though he did start openly, having been donated the idea, but that deteriorated, other, perhaps more knowledgeable people, chipped in with their own better and more flexible ideas, but were, frankly, shouted down. So we gave up. It’s not all sweetness and light here.

AFAIK TK asked Emisar to put the contacts onto the Emisar D4S. Which was great. Then a lot of bandwagon jumping went on with jockeying for position, leading, frankly, nowhere, because the most vocal also seemed to be the most dim and obstinate, and the cleverest just preferred to crack on, doing their own stuff.

So i whipped one up. Took 5 minutes.

Took 3 hours trying to figure out instagram. I hope a picture shows up…here:

I cant…the picture…make happen. Grrr. Will try again. I think the link part works.

I have 3 posts on instagram under mildlyangryjohnny. One is a picture form of the essay i wrote about making a headlamp mount for a helmet.

Diy helmet headlamp mount

Another post is my original—very simple tripod mount for a tn36ut:

Tn36ut diy tripod/helmet

and then obviously i had to slap that on a helmet. And because that was hilarious i had to slap a TN40S on the helmet as well. Because science.

To see if something might fall on my head from a mile away

I have no idea if any of this worked or if i just made a mess. Not super keen on the typing machine gizmos. Looks like the links work.

At this point I’d trust this helmet with my noggin protection as much as I trust thicker beanie with impact protection :smiley:

Anybody just… tried some tape yet?

For those who need a 18650 to 20700/21700 adapter/converter.

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32924094800.html?pid=808_0000_0101&spm=a2g0n.search-amp.list.32924094800&aff_trace_key=&aff_platform=msite&m_page_id=3amp-AOSRaZ3yANWW3gsLs6sCVg1544138585071

That’s rediculous. I cant weld tape.

I think Fireflies should ship out replacement headbands that actually work.

PL47 arrived today. Overall very happy with the light, it fits in my pocket better than expected! Similar to Nite Shadow’s light 21700 50E cells require extra force when tightening. However, 30T/40T/48G cells fit perfect and do not require any extra tightening force.

I can confirm the PL47 works with the Armytek Wizard Pro headband, although not as balanced and a bit heavier. Wizard Pro with cell = 106g | PL47 with cell = 142g.

Here are a couple shots next to a D4S.

Just ordered some 48g’s since my 50e’s sound like they are not going to fit very well.

How’s the xpl hi throw looking?

Was this light even marketed as a headlamp?

not until they offered a headset
and that was clamored by the ppl wanting it as such
prolly bite them in the A$$

Well that didn’t take long…love the basics of the UI and already got tbe hang of the button feel enough that this PL47 with the JetBeam HC20 headband, it is now my new daily use headlamp. Have worn it on and off for about 4 hours today amd no real noticable weight difference from my Skilhunt H03. Very Comfortable. Winner winner chicken dinner! Just going to order some 48G’s that are slightly shorter that I hear are still good for this 219B containing light.Thanks to noboneshotdog for the insight above and other members that I can not remember (sorry)! Cheers!

BTW, shaved my head so no chance of hair catching fire! :smiley: :sunglasses: :wink:

I was actually thinking about the new headband from Armytek . Not the silicone one.
Good to hear that it’s fully usable with the standard silocone ones.

For those who have access to 3d printers and have no knowledge of creating models there’s this from citruspers in thingiverse. I might try it when my Pl47 arrives and I have measured it and adjusted the size. I see one advantage over the standard armytek is that its easier to mount and adjust angle with clip on.

You know you’re a hardcore flashaholic when you shave your head just so your headlamp won’t light your hair on fire. :disappointed:

Firelight2

Please, stop with the political correctness :smiling_imp:

rubber tubing works (eg:like and inner tube) but thats still not idea… For as cheap as £1.23 you may as well get a headband…

printed the mount you link to…

make sure you increase print by 15% as it will be too small for the pl47 general print settings 20% infil an ).2 res… but works a treat… I used the head bands strips from the epic failed ones that came with ou pl47s. Feels very secure… Should work nicely…

The silicone one is a tight fit, but it works. I don’t know if that hard plastic headband you linked would work, the diameter of the PL47 is larger than the Wizard.