If only they had made it a zoomie. Or un-zoomie. There NEEDS to be a way to adjust the size of the hotspot to make it useful.
Once you start just slightly adjusting the focus of the beam, it will instantly lose its punch. 4-500 lumens just won’t throw that much when it diverges even slightly.
Can’t wait to see your video on the K75!
Yes, but losing it’s punch is the point. This type of light needs a focus adjustment with the GOAL of affecting brightness. That way you can get just the right amount of light with the maximum field of view.
As soon as they make the osram version I will buy it assuming I can fit wavien collar.
As is this light is a one trick pony
Time to impress some friends.
I think the LEP lights are awesome. I really want one. They are too expensive right now, but the prices will hopefully come down if they catch on and get more popular.
a bit expensive, but intriguing technology using a blue laser to excite the phosphor instead of a blue LED substrate. the should have made the lens focus adjustable, ( like an zoomie aspheric) so for closer ranges it can be used as a low-power flooder to make it more versatile. It has cool factor, but with nearly no spill it has very limited uses, much like the Deft-X did when it was built.
Finally!! A light that is a ‘True Thrower’ with basically NO SPILL…. exactly what a ‘Dedicated Thrower’ should be. A Thrower….
I love it!! 
This light will be very useful in certain situations also…. in addition to wowing friends, scaring neighbors, & playing with. 
Great video Matt & thank you for explaining the LEP Technology also. 
Try shining the beam on a wall, from only 6 inches or a foot away and see if there is blue laser light. My W10 has very blue light surrounding the hot spot.
Edit: So thinking this reflected laser light bouncing off white walls and into my eyes might not be good, I use the green filter when hunting white walls:)
Very nice review, thanks! I will subscribe to your channel
You’ll find the architectural lighting people posting a lot of denial about the blue light hazard. TL/DR “but it’s Sooooo pretty!”
Problem is that the human visual system is relatively very insensitive to blue and far-blue light, so the lights have to be realllllly bright in that band to get the architects’ desired glow. That means pumping out a whole lot of high energy blue photons that will affect the retina even though people don’t see them.
Same applies to blue and violet laser emission — you may barely see the light, but the blue photons are quite intense chemically when it reaches the retina — strong enough to knock electrons off of molecules, which the ‘warmer’ weaker photons don’t do.
It’s worth thinking about being careful with blue laser sources.
Very impresive video Matt!
thanks
Holy cow! 
I need to build something what beat that 
Saw this come up on my YouTube suggestions before seeing it on the forum. Tells you something about my viewing habits. Excellent video, as always. Thank you Matt.
outstanding video!
the water bounce is mind blowing
I like the clear, not red, diffused shot
makes the light very versatile, IF the diffusion film does not melt…
but geez, the tint is so green! lol
curious…
how HOT is the beam?
will it light a wad of paper on fire at 1 yard?
will it incinerate a varmint at 5 yards?
will it fry your retina if you use it for ceiling bounce?
like, is it dangerous?
At short distance the light is not collimated at all, so you get that very moderate 500-ish lumen spread out from the very large surface area of the complete lens. The filter will not melt and your S2+ will feel hotter.
I read more posts about how dangerous the beam from this light is, but in the end it is just a low power 500 lumen flashlight, the only special thing about it is that the light rays coming out of the lens are very very parallel.
Does anyone know how powerful the laser is? For it to produce 500 lumens, it has to be packing some serious energy. Strip out the phosphor, and it could make for a wicked laser source.
I guess it is a couple of watts blue laser, very dangerous stuff but widely for sale for as low as under 50 dollar as a source for laser engraving machines. No need to demolish your precious W30 for that. In fact the most special part of these LEP lights is the bit of phosfor that makes the white light and that can handle the concentrated laser power without being destructed.
And I like that nice coated lens :heart_eyes:
not for me! $268 toy. interesting, though. But i already have one illegal blue (probably) laser i’m too afraid to turn on!
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If you want a very good laser pointer,I put a link for this. https://www.sanwulasers.com/ .
They make very good ,but of course expensive lasers.I have got from them a 5W blue one.Very strong.And dangerous…