KC1 keychain light is available now

That grey camo though :+1:

Grey camo looks great.

There is a new emitter option - LH351D 90CRI 5000K!

Customized at Emisar/Noctigon, or customized by you? It looks fantastic.

Thanks!

It was a collaboration of an idea I had for the design, realized by a British machinist, Richard Hipwell and then I installed the trits.

How could it compare to the XPL HI V3 3A in regards to brightness and quality of tint, heat etc?

Better CRI obviously, anything else? I don’t have a light with that emitter

Cool. It looks exceptionally nice.

Thank you.

I haven’t seen a photo of this yet, so I made one. The anatomy of the KR4/KR1 switch:

Is it glued? I thought you couldn’t take apart the tailcap like the fw3a.

I made a tool with exact fit and had to apply some force. It was either very tight or had a tiny amount of transparent glue (couldn’t see anything).

My KR4 was not glued but was torqued very tight. It needed a spammer tool to open without damaging the brass retaining ring.

Can anyone comment on the finish of the KR4 Ti vs the D4V2 Ti? I was hoping for something smooth. I found the grip and machining far too abrasive on the titanium D4V2.

The abrasivness will go with use . I did a photo session with mine on strong linen and it did diminished only by moving it around .

Fairly close or equal in output to XP-L HI, hotter than XP-L HI but cooler than 219C or SST-20, floodier than XP-L HI (pretty close to XP-L HD in beam profile with less tint shift), tint varies wildly depending on batch/bin. If Hank finally got some I would wager the tint is at least decent.

De-doming one would be interesting. Probably need to disassemble the head to get a flat cut.

+1

Has anyone tried modifying the mcpcb to allow the optic to sit lower with these emitters? I’m thinking a counterbore that allows the legs to sit ~0.3mm or so lower might make a meaningful difference in beam characteristics.

Thanks for the response! If I get one I’d have to think long and hard about changing from the ever reliable XPL HI led that’s for sure…

I hear it looks pretty good that way. It has even attained meme status, thanks to the peculiar product code of one of the nicest and most popular bins.

It’s called a SPHWHTL3DA0GF4RTS6, often shortened to “DA0GF4RTS” or “dogfarts”. It’s a nice-looking tint bin. But while it’s nice as-is, I hear the beam is significantly improved by slicing off most of the dome to make it work like an XP-L HI emitter. This is typically referred to as “sliced dogfarts”.

well that made for an interesting google search… did find a couple of hits though “[1]”:Reddit - Dive into anything, “[2]”:Reddit - Dive into anything.

any ideas if the 3500k e21a is coming back in stock?