I believe Emisar/Noctigon sit firmly at the “premium” end of budget flashlights. Their build quality and fit and finish is superb. Their prices are fair, IMHO.
I don’t consider Emisar/Noctigon budget lights so much as enthusiast lights. Enthusiasts tend to be aware of what affects the production cost and therefore more sensitive to good and bad value than the average person, but also willing to pay when the value is there.
I think pricing for the KR1 is fair. It’s $5 more than the D1 was while being a more complicated design for the nested tubes, at a time when a pandemic has canceled most passenger flights and driven up shipping costs.
Does anyone know how the KR1 beam profile ( angle, size of hot spot, amount of spill, etc) as well as throw distance compares with fireflies E01 Mini thrower with Osram?
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Its on pre-order so those specs wouldn’t be known by consumers yet, as for throw I don’t trust fireflies claims the beam profile on the E01 has a lot of rings from the corona and spill and looks pretty horrible.
I agree about the rings around the corona of the E01, but they don’t bothar me that much. I like it that the overall angle is narrower than any of my other lights so that it a) doesn’t waste lumens for the side spill and b) doesn’t blind people walking towards me on the side. The turbo has a bit of a bluish tint which I don’t like that much but I am ok with it; actually, surprisingly, the tint color depends on the type of battery I use, and the shittier battery the better the tint, go figure. And I also agree fireflies has somewhat a tendency to overstate the candella sometimes. I’ve yet to measure the Cd on it but it appears the throw is about 500m.
What I absolutely love about The E1 is its narrow angle. Would be great if TR1 also had an overall narrow angle, came though on the candella numbers and had a nice comparatively beefy hot spot.
That “angry blue” is your higher drain cells pushing the emitter well past a healthy level of current for it, since the white flats have a low Vf. Anything about 7-8A is too much for the WF2.
Is it normal that my KR4 mule (8 x XP-L HI) takes quite a while to get “hot”? I’m using a fresh 30Q and it takes a good couple of minutes to get to what I would describe as “uncomfortable to hold”. By comparison, my 3 x XP-L HI FW3A takes about 10 seconds to become painful.
I know mules are obviously perceptively far less bright than a light with an optic to focus the beam, but it just doesn’t feel like it’s giving its all.