KC1 keychain light is available now

Is the ramp floor set to 1/150?

Appreciate the posts on your KR4. Looking forward to mine. Ordered the 3000k, hope the tint is decent.

When you remove the pocket clip, please do not forget there is lanyard ring which can also be installed and try.

Good point. The light comes stock with a lanyard ring that can be used instead of the pocket clip. It also comes with a lanyard.

He also said it wasn’t a huge amount more resistant and that it is less resistant than the FW3A with the o-ring mod. I was hoping for a bigger difference.

Those are incredible! I already have 2 D4V2 Ti but I ordered the Blue Swirls, including 18350 tube, with SST20 3000K. Can you please verify these LEDs are of a below the BBL tint?

Unless it changed recently, Hank’s SST-20 3000K is HB4 bin, above BBL. You could use a Zircon filter to remove some of the yellow/green.

Would you be interested in SST-20 2700K JA3 bin, below BBL? You could try emailing Hank, maybe he still has some left.

I just noticed, Blue Swirls are gone :frowning:

Thank you lightdecay. My light was shipped today. I really hope it has below bbl tint or I will definitely have to reflow some other LEDs.

Hank, do you know what tint are my SST20 LEDs?

If it’s SST-20 4000K, then it is either FA3 or FD2.

He ordered SST-20 3000K. Still HB4? Any chance of HD2 bin in the near future?

I thought it was FA3 only the last time I asked. So you ordered a FD2 batch also? Please only use FA3 because it is noticeably less yellow/green than the FD2. Of course if you can get FA1, FA4, FD1, FD4 bin would be even better. :wink:

I ordered SSTSST-20 3000K indeed.

FD2 is right beside FA3 the difference is 125K, it is very little, it is neither above BBL and neither a thousands of Kelvin distance, to be more “yellow” and “green”

What size trits for the KR4?

I think the confusion is due to some test samples (don’t remember the source for them) sent to members being basically confirmed to be a different bin than they labeled as IIRC.

A few notes from my blue KR4 copy…

• The switch needs more travel to activate over my FW3A (gasket modded). It also feels & sounds a bit springy/grindy, especially on the edges, but works fine none the less. I will do some R&D to see if I can mod it in a similar fashion to the FW for a more consistent and stable feel.

• I chose a yellow tritium vial which works decent although it is quite dim like lower end watch hands. But still much better than the overpriced turboglow button switch and gasket on my FW3A which gasses out in minutes and is mostly unusable in pure darkness.

• Hank assured me my copy would be an FA3 iteration of the SST20 4000K. At first glance it looked quite neutral and devoid of greens throughout the ramp range. But after comparing it to my 219Bs, 219Cs, and other lights (going on 30+ now) I did notice a very slight tinge of green comparatively. Maybe I received an FD2 bin? Dunno. I used a 1/4 minus green filter and it has neutralized any green hues and I did not notice much OTF falloff in power. The beam pattern is a tad crunchy on these optics but only noticeable if you are up really close to a white all. Perhaps I need to do a DC Fix for a bit more blend or diffusion.

• Overall, the light feels a bit gritty out of the box but after several days of use it now feels quite smooth and grippy. I actually prefer the heft over my other 18650 lights, unlike most people, as it just feels more solid and likely able to absorb and dissipate heat better throughout the core.

• I was surprised that the Clip wasn’t as ghastly as it looked in pictures. It’s quite robust and geometric/modern looking. Pretty solid if you ask me. Personally, I prefer lanyards (which is included) so i switched to that setup.

Here are some awful crappy phone pics, including a corner beam shot with the minus green, that actually looks fairly close to IRL (to my old eyes at least). My ceiling is white and the wall is a basic gray.

NOTE: The KR4 color is more of a denim blue rather than the more muted cyan on the D4S models. I’ve seen many quoting they were “ready to order the cyan kr4” They are very different blues.

Cheers.



In reality from my testing and others, the FA3 is noticeably less green than the FD2 bins (less positive duv). It is still not rosy by any means except on turbo. But it is decent enough to not be annoying.

I haven’t seen a 219C 4000K below the BBL. Which 219C light did you compare it to?

I have 2 FW3As…an XPL HI 3D and a 219C 4000K as well as a MF01 219C 4000K as well as an EDC18 in the same guise…they all look very similar and somehow made the KR4 copy I received look a touch green. shrug I have a ton of different gels so it didn’t bother me much to add the minus green. Otherwise, in a vacuum, I’m sure for 90% of most flashaholics are fine with the way the KR4 performs out of the box. CRI babies nonwithstanding.

Here is a graph I screencapped from a poster in a past FW3A post…I don’t remember the poster name or when it was exactly…maybe can help everyone with some insight.