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.
Wasn’t the D1S $40 and usually on sale for $35?
18650? Really?
Who needs another one 18650 now?
AFAIK the WF2 is binned at around 5500-5700K since that’s all I’ve seen it offered in.
Hank,
will there be an E21A Mule? Please say yes. ;-)
Caved ordered a W2, probably will order a W1 at somepoint as well….
Does KR1 have AUX leds? Anywhere? Around emitter maybe?
Yeah i know...
Just wanted to double check
Just ordered one, dark grey w2
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?
Thanks
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.
Makes sense! Thanks
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.
Are you definitely at turbo, and not top of ramp?
Turn on, press and hold until you get to top of ramp, then double click.
Yup! Ok maybe not a couple of minutes, but definitely not as fast as I would expect from 8 emitters.
What’s the difference In the beam between the w1 and w2 version? Where do the extra lumens go - larger hot spot or more side spill with W2?
My KR4 with XPL-Hi is definitely heating up very fast on Turbo, also the light output difference is huge.
i measured 4,99 A on max ceiling ramp and 10,3 A on Turbo on a not even complete full cell
That’s a whopping 40 W !
