KC1 keychain light is available now

Very excited about this! Any general ETA on availability?

Should be on October.


oh please no! I won’t be able to resist.

I want one of those in XP-L HI 3A, 3D, 4A, or 4D. I got to see a preview, and it’s really nice. :slight_smile:

The switch backlight is a good change. It must be quite difficult to assemble these though, with so many wires in such a small space.

I am excited about this too. Unlikely that I will be able to resist.

Is it super heavy like v1? I was not a fan of that.

It’ll probably weigh about the same as the titanium+copper V1 did. Both materials weigh more than aluminum.

Titanium can be made to weigh less, but only because it is stronger so the material can be thinner without sacrificing structural integrity. But when the size and shape are the same, titanium is heavier than aluminum.

Aluminum is probably more practical most of the time. So, for practical purposes, I would configure the D4v2 to be black or grey aluminum with a steel bezel and pocket clip, with XP-L HI 3A. That is my favorite version currently sold in the store.

Yes. I’m an aware of the material properties, but I didn’t realize how much material was in the light in v1 until I got ti/cu. It was the super heavy. I’ll pass on v2 of it’s basically the same weight.

Will it do some cool stuff like indicate battery voltage or will it be a “dumb” backlight.

Please sir, switch backlight for D4SV2 also? :innocent:

While the main LEDs are on, the button LEDs mirror what the main LEDs are doing. So it blinks out battery voltage in battcheck mode, and blinks out temperature in tempcheck mode. It goes dim and bright in sync with the main LEDs, which indicates when it’s in regulated or hybrid modes and looks neat in lightning or biking mode.

While the main LEDs are off, the button LEDs mirror what the aux LEDs are doing — off, low, high, or blinking.

Fantastic!

Thank You!
That thought gives me the strength to resist buying the D4Sv2 for another month or so… :beer:

FWIW, I have no idea if the button LEDs will be used in anything except the titanium D4v2. It might only be available as part of a limited-run special edition.

After receiving the E07 full brass edition, I would prefer a Full Brass D4V2 over my titanium D4.
The brass threads are so much smoother than the titanium teeth-grating galling drag every time you change/charge the battery.
You just know they are chewing each other up.

skylumen neeeds to get a hold of a few of this would love to get one with white1 osrams on mine hehhehe

V2 D4 TI/CU - i am in Hank.

Why the aux led control is different when locked or unlocked?

I find myself a lot of times changing by accident the mode (low/high, beacon, off) of aux leds when trying to get out of lockout by 4 clicks (miss a click and you will change the aux leds mode… :person_facepalming: )

Aux led control should be 7 clicks no matter if it’s locked or unlocked

I also find it too easy to get to config modes by accident, a lot of times when I’m in moonlight and I think that the flashlight is off and I click 4 times for lockout but get to ramp config instead. Why not 4 clicks to go to lockout even when the flashlight is on?

It’s the same for 3 clicks, from off it gets you to blinkies but if you do 3 clicks it changes from smooth ramping to stepped….

I’ve been meaning to change lockout’s aux controls from 3 to 7 clicks to improve consistency, but every time I’ve brought it up, people said to leave it as is.

Also have been wanting to change the mapping to get into config mode, since people keep getting into it by accident. Again though, it’s tricky making changes which break backward compatibility. It makes things unpleasant for a lot of people for a while, even if the changes are an upgrade.

Basically, changes like that involve coordinating with people here and with several companies. It’s a lot more work than it might seem at a glance.

About replacing “3 or 4 clicks while on” with shortcuts to blinkes or lockout, no. That’s not likely to happen in Anduril. The only reason it’s able to have relatively short button mappings (like 3 clicks instead of 11) is because it’s a stateful interface instead of a stateless interface. Input sequences do different things depending on what state the light is in.

I voted to change it to 7 clicks. Consistency is king (or queen).

Some brands are known to have rather mushy backlit switches. I hope the titanium D4V2 manages to keep the same great click that we are used to from Emisar products!

I kind of want one of these in 2700K SST-20 to use as a candle, but I don’t fancy swapping the emitters with all that extra aux board stuff going on in the head. I might just go for a 3A or 5D XP-L HI option instead, as power is kind of the point of the D4.