Emisar D4S review

Where do you see that the 5000k is yellow? It’s not.

I’m not bothered by the delayed turn off because it is only a fraction of a second. However, trying to get it to start in moonlight mode but end up with full blast in the middle of the night with the wife asleep is very annoying. I wish that can be fixed.

Does nobody use nightlights in their household outlets but me lol. I don’t need to grab a flashlight just to relieve myself at 1AM or grab a drink.

Where is the fun in that?

Lol

I’m also replacing our bedroom fan lights with Alexa enabled LEDs so we can use reds to preserve night vision and not bother each other when our schedules conflict with sleep habits. Soon there may be no need at all lol

Well, knowing its behaving as designed is a consolation and after further thought, it actually makes sense.

I’m thinking o f getting a D4s ,I like the XPLHI 6500k version of my D4 & I’m thinking of getting that in the D4s but what’s the difference between it & th SST-20 6500k version ,I know it has more throw ,do you sacrifice flood? Is the tint the same? Is it more power hungry?

It would be nice if we got a side by side pic of the tints and beam shape for each of the different emitters. I’d bet it would help people get off the fence and order.

But hiding flashlight in your mouth before diving into muffin is very rewarding.

Or even just the SST-20’s! :wink: :wink:

It’d be really nice if it was standard for flashlight companies to include a “cd/lm” metric for every model and every emitter type. This goes a long way toward giving people a good idea what the beam is like. For example, is it a 2 cd/lm flooder, a 8 cd/lm EDC light, a 35 cd/lm compact thrower, or a 200 cd/lm dedicated thrower?

Pictures or it never happened… just sayin. :wink:

Happy new year with Emisar D4S in one shot no photoshop:

Nice Zozz!

@TK

Emisar D4S
OTF lumen output / candela / reach at start-up / cd/lm (2018-12-03)
XP-G2 S4 : 3300lm / 40,000cd / 400m / 12.1 cd/lm
Nichia 219C : 3000lm / 20,000cd / 282m / 6.7 cd/lm
XP-L HI : 4300lm / 45,000cd / 424m / 10.5 cd/lm
XP-L HD : 5100lm / 27,000cd / 328m / 5.3 cd/lm
SST-20 6500K: 4200lm / 58,000cd / 481m /13.8 cd/lm
SST-20 5000K: 4000lm / 55,000cd / 469m / 13.8
SST-20 4000K 95CRI: 3000lm / 41,000cd / 404m / 13.7 cd/lm
SST-20 3000K 95CRI: 3000lm / 41,000cd / 404m/ 13.7 cd/lm

Look at my google tables column: L

:wink:

is the sst20 5000k greenish tint wise?

In order to pick the right firmware for YOU, maybe there should be a survey.

“When I press the button, I want the flashlight to respond immediately: (please circle one)
(AGREE STRONGLY) (AGREE SOMEWHAT) (NEUTRAL) (DISAGREE SOMEWHAT) (DISAGREE STRONGLY)

When I adjust levels, the light should not flash or flicker:
(AGREE STRONGLY) (AGREE SOMEWHAT) (NEUTRAL) (DISAGREE SOMEWHAT) (DISAGREE STRONGLY)

The light should remember my last-set ramp level, even if I have used a shortcut to moonlight or turbo:
(AGREE STRONGLY) (AGREE SOMEWHAT) (NEUTRAL) (DISAGREE SOMEWHAT) (DISAGREE STRONGLY)”

and then the script compiles it! :slight_smile:

How long til the flashlight will listen for voiced commands?
Oh, and where’s my flying car?

That’s more or less what the “USE_*” flags already do. It would only need a script to set or unset those. There are lots of other software projects which work this way, and even an entire OS based on the concept. Gentoo makes heavy use of “use” flags, both on a per-package basis and system-wide, to let people customize things exactly how they want… but OTOH, it also takes a great deal of time and electricity to compile everything from scratch all the time.

Anyway, use the USE_ flags. :slight_smile:

This is the D4S thread, so it may be disrespectful to post beams from another flashlight (in this case, it is the PL47)

Nichia 219B vs SST20-4000K vs XPL-Hi-“neutral-white” LEDs on a PL47:

The SST20-4000K is a bit more throwy and also a bit brighter than the Nichia 219B, when using similar battery at fully charged levels…