After some digging, it seems no one has put all 4 of the current emitter options up for a side by side comparison yet. That said it appears that the 219C emitters are definitely the least efficient, followed by the SST-20, and the XP-L emitters are the most efficient. So, I guess I’ll be ordering the 3Ds in a Ti body and the 219Cs in a Cu version sometime down the road (and hopefully the SSTs in a blue one).
My wife is more understanding than most (she puts up my auto racing and motorcycle hobbies) but she definitely does not understand the flashlight obsession. To her the $1 plastic AA flashlights from Walmart work just fine. She does say I’m her walking Swiss Army knife because I always have a blade, pen, and light on me. I’ll make do, just have to free up the funds by selling some toys I don’t play with anymore.
Oddly enough, my wife still doesn’t complain about my lights (232?) and she enjoys several of her own. She WOULD like my modding table cleared though… lol
Recieved my shipping info this morning, when I got home from work today FedEx had a note on my door!! Apparently they need a signature for delivery, good thing I’ll be home tomorrow.
My wife and I keep our funds separate so she doesn’t care about my obsessions I waste too much money on. She rolls her eyes over firearms occasionally (if she only knew!) when she sees them as I’m heading to the range. The first time she’s noted the too many flashlights was the other day when she was cleaning the kitchen counter off. My daughter had left 6 different flashlights handy so she can grab one……the wife had to clean them off, knew that my vehicles all have multiples and I have several near the computer and several by the bed and wanted to know why I needed so many. “I don’t know” I replied, “I like them: why do you need so many purses?” LOL.
BTW, in my view that Ti stonewash is ugly. Ti can be amazing colors (check the 5 different D2ti for example), wonder why they did that ugly stonewash as an extra process?
Got mine yesterday. It’s an attractive little light, but I have to admit it’s a bit of a disappointment. Mine appears to be the “V2” with black locking ring in the tailcap and slightly different inner tube design. Out of the box it would not turn on at all. I’ve been tinkering with it all morning…disassembling, cleaning, tightening…and at least I have it at a point where it turns on and works correctly. Removing the black retaining ring in the tailcap seemed to help. Only thing is I have to screw it together REALLY tight to get it to work, tighter than my aluminum version. I hope it’s just my particular light, cause no light should require this much fidgeting to make it work out of the box.
I had the same issue with three out of four lights.
One thing that helps: wipe the contact ring in the tail with alcohol on a swab. They seem to have some grease on there that blocks the switch signal.
And made sure the brass ring sits flat against the driver board in the head.
Yeah did all that. Cleaned all the contacts with alcohol. I think re-seating the driver board and snugging the brass retainer ring helped a lot.
I see other posts talk about lining up the notch on the driver board with a notch in the tube…my board has the notch but I don’t see anything to line it up with? Might have been another change.