The features don’t change how to feels on you head. 160g is heavy for a headlamp. If I’m wearing a headlamp for a long period of time without a beanie hat to give padding, even 18650 Zebras get to be painful.
If this light aims to be a headlamp, the weight needs to come down some way. If the features stay the same marketing more as simply a right-angle handheld makes more sense to me personally.
The mock ups really do look great though, this could be a great light with the right UI.
I strongly suspect it’s 160g for just the light + cell. No 21700 light I know of gets anywhere close to 120g loaded with that size of cell. For that matter 160g isn’t even bad for a light of with that cell format, but it’s way past suboptimal for a headlamp IMHO.
That means something like 130g when using an 18650 cell, so not as bad in that case assuming it has dual springs and/or a cell spacer included to operate with them.
yes, that is the point about size and weight when we decide to use a 21700, for a input and output 21700 with more power and runtime, here is beam for test sample, 4000k tint floodlight and 6000k spot
Please no 6000K for throw!
Stick with 5000K and below. High color temperatures for throw are useless when there is a lot of dust or moisture in the air. Please HiCri for the flood. I’d say do a 5000K XPL Hi or SST for Throw and a 4000K Nichia or Samsung for the flood.
This is look'n pretty good. The UI and switch (switch is really part of the UI) are very important to me - makes all the difference and so often it's done wrong.
Being 40-50g lighter with 18650 and 1-1.5cm shorter it would be much interesting as headlamp. For 2000lm output(in turbo) not necessary to use 21700. Maximum stable output for such host about 600 lm (with hicri flood , and neutral throw) so it is at least 2h runtime.
Or maybe more interesting… 18650 battery, buck -boost driver , 3500K Hi-cri LED with 60 degree main optic and 30 degree small optic with a deep red LED