I did find out about this light about 2 weeks ago, I thought that this was the ultimate EDC light. Was little bit surprised never heard about the manufacture before.
I have spent the whole saturday to read this thread. In general its way too much off topic in this thread especially of people who dont own the flashlight.
Here is Some observations and questions to summarize this thread
1. It seem Fireflies first of all have done a bad job giving back feedback, about all manufacture and quality problems, I only have seen one post, about the thermal paste. From that point forward we know they are aware of the problem, but we still see no confirmation that all flashlight from a certain date should not have this problem, all I see is people from left and right have this problem, right now I cant make purcahse cause it feels like russian roulette and its a big pain to send back stuff and get it fixed even if they pay for everything, I rather wait until beta period over.
2. Its a lot of of battery discussion in thread, some battery discussion are valid, especially those regarding size of battery, It must be under 70.8mm in length. The other discussion of the danger to use to powerful batteries might make some emitters blue or stop working is also very important disucssion,
The other dicussion regarding fake batteries from fireflies, well, first of all fireflies should not bundle with battires, its a risky business its easy to get fake batteries, especially since they most likely want to make as good profit as possible so they buy the batch that has best price. Fireflies will earn money of bundle fake batteries. Its better to buy batteries from shops that only sell battires where their whole reputation is on the line if they sell fake battries, here in EU I recommend NKON.
3. There is very little comparison between emitters in this thread, I think there is a lot of “Nichia” fanboyism in general on this forum, sometimes its well deserved but that does not mean we should give other emitters a chance. I am in the market for the 4000k range myself, but the CREE XPL HI V2 5A 4000k emitter have 2400 more in lumen output, then both Nichia and SST20 4000k, so yeah thats a really big difference in output, so there should be a very good reason to choose the Nichia over the SST20, sure I dont see the CRI rating on the Cree XPL, but I would prefer to see actual photos to see the difference in color/tint/beam/battery efficiency.
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Now it has gone almost 2 months, have we seen any “official” proof that it will be released ? and when ?
I rather way for the premium edition with Copper and that have hopefully fixed all the glitches in the manufacturing. Black body and copper head would look sexy (just like Manker E14 II).