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I agree, loving what I see and grateful to the people keeping it moving.

I believe it was said very early on that 18350 was out of the question. I might be wrong because I canā€™t find any mention of it now. It is late thoughā€¦ Time for bedā€¦

Yes, you remember correctly and it was pretty early on. Itā€™s in the first post in the ā€œFAQā€ section. :slight_smile:

Thanks for the updates ToyKeeper. Iā€™m still super stoked for this. Still have money set aside for my three.

The latest proto still looks great to me. I like bare finish look but this is very nice too!

any photos of the light actually ON

That would be nice.

ā€¦ but not critical. Itā€™s a triple using a standard Carclo optic. Beam should look like any other triple with the same emitters using the same optic.

I was thinking more of proof of life :wink:

Well we know at least one of the prototypes works. Didnā€™t TK mention sheā€™s been EDCing hers for the last year?

Show me the insides :innocent:

I asked for a photo of the driver on the battery side, I got a written description.

Call me crazy, but sometimes I just like to see a flashlight turned on.

Please put me down for one more unit (2 in total), thanks!

Iā€™d also get one more - 2 in total and each with different emiter.

Thereā€™s also this:

ā€¦ and this:

Proof of life just came in about an hour ago, taken at Lumintopā€™s office.

This is XPLHI 3D, ~4875K. (Driver issues reportedly already addressed and fixed.)

Thanks, TK and Tatasal

Iā€™m in for one LH351D, please and thank you!

Iā€™m in for TWO with LH351D. THX!

Please put me on the list for a second light (so 2 in total).

The grey anodised version looks awesome and reminds me so much of Peter Granseeā€™s ARC4 flashlight circa 2004 (actually designed by HDS Systems)ā€¦ I remember waiting with baited breath for that one as well!

Actually, if you look at the specs, there was much in the ARC4 that we see today - microprocessor control, fully regulated, user selectable brightness levels - all that and a vast 30 lumens for just a couple of hundred bucks - well, it was 15 years ago!

Huge thanks to the FW3A team and especially to TK for making this all possible, otherwise weā€™d still be stuck back in 2004ā€¦.

Fixed that for ya!

Thanks for the recent updates!

By the way, separate from all the insistent noise in this thread, quite a few of us are just quietly but regularly checking in on the thread, keeping patient. We appreciate all who have put in efforts to bring this project to fruition.