The 5500mAh are their current black and gold Sofirn cells. These are more high capacity and not high drain. They won’t produce the highest output.
The HD batteries are the new high drain cells they acquired and are about 4800mAh. Sofirm will be adding button tops to them for use in series lights like the SP70, Thorfire S70S, etc…
I know what price they are targeting, but I can’t say publicly.
It is a very competitive price to similar lights (same size and shape) even though this one will have a more powerful driver, a ramping UI, very light OP reflector and a XHP70.2.
I kinda wish they would say “Here is the price we want to have for BLF, hopefully we will achieve it. Unfortunately, won’t know the final price until the light is close to shipping”.
This way we have an actual number, but realize there are variables that could effect it.
The last thing a company wants is to promise a certain price early, then realize the production or shipping costs are higher than they predicted and now they are selling it for almost no profit or even losing money (like BLF GT). Or they could say “Sorry, we have to go back on our promised price and raise it”. That makes customers upset and the company looks bad.
The reflector looks pretty shallow (very wide spill, small hotspot). 89kcd screams for a slicing job, I hope that the OP of the reflector is light enough to keep good throw with the smaller die.
Thanks. I know it was all talked about but it was not in my head anymore (a lot disappears in my brain over time ), and I have no precise recollection what made it and not made it into the production light.