What type of light would you like the next BLF Special Edition to be? As in developed by us over a year or so from scratch.... like it used to be

The laws of physics are a bitch! I’m sure a very solidly built 18650/21700 tube light could manage 1000lm sustained.

How about the 30mm wide single 21700 Thrunite T2?

ZeroAir’s review shows it can sustain 1600lm for an hour or 1400lm for 90 minutes.

I fear we may have hit a wall in terms of emitter and lighting technology. I honestly do not see anything on the horizon, which actually has me excited about it. Until companies can come out with the next breakthrough in emitter tech, I really do not think there is much to build interest on upon. But, if I had a choice I would try and make an attempt at making a 10 million plus candela light. If possible, maybe a sustain 100,000 thousand lumen? Of course, it would have to be a thrower. Just throwing ideas out there.

Hey, a reflector this big might be the largest in the flashlight…but obviously to have one that is the largest ever we should top that.
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That one looks to be the right size, lol. Whatever it takes to make it happen I say. But, as you mentioned, shipping will most likely kill the deal.

You don’t ship the light to yourself but ship yourself to the light. It may not be cheap but come on, can it be so bad? :wink:

I would greatly anticipate anything, which is a multi-emitter E21A setup. (I mean multi as at least 12, but the more, the better.)

There is already Astrolux MF01S and Emisar D18 - these could be good as a starting point, but power should be capped at about 2.5 Watts / emitter. I think, we wouldn’t want to make the precious E21A emitters aging too fast. This would mean 45 Watts for the mentioned flashlights. As tint selection, I think, only these should be sufficient: 3500K, 4500K, 5700K.

Also, there is already BLF LT1… think about a tint mixing between 2000K and 3500K with E21A, that would make a super moody lantern! (A variant with tint mixing between 2700K and 4500K could be also very good, but the first one would be irresistible)

Someone touched the reflector. It’s dull all over.

Maybe could kill 2 birds with 1 stone, a keychain light that could also double up as a head torch.
I’m thinking battery longways with maybe a couple of small emitters with shallow tir optics along the long side of the battery which could clip into a rubber shroud on a headband, or with a ring hole, be on a keychain.
That ticks 2 boxes, the most popular choice in the poll and one I didn’t forsee lol!
Kinda, and I’m loosely saying kinda - like this (but with a couple of emitters maybe? and a ring on the other end to put on a keychain. The bottom one is rough but with keychain loop (which would fold flat) and 2 emitters, maybe 1 could be rgbw or something? just an idea! The BLF KH (Keychain Headlamp)


They do make little shallow optics as my Boruit B50 has them in each side of the main optic

how about a headlight that can throw at least 100 yards, and heres the kicker, have a dimmer knob so it can be used for actual real life applications like working on the car or shifting stuff around a barn without needing sun glass’s.
reason for the dimmer knob…click click click click…eeeeeh in yu eye! click it yu self! turn a knob, it’s there…turn it up ooo it goes up stays there, turn it down…oooo its goes down lol…, 3.30 AM, plistering down with that ice cold rain, you’ve just soaked yu crotch area and it’s biting like a beaver…click click ohhh the secret double hold on lift of……arghhhhhhh!!
(you get the point…real life).

needs to have a fairly low profile, the big cup dish’s that give a ‘spot’ light just get dinged at every head turn when theres anything near by…starts to really annoy when your face is in an engine.(4 knucles short and oils starting to sting in the sweat…click…click…oh battery ran out)
certain pwm levals gets quite a few people in real life usage. i know one guy that gets cranky to a dr jackle leval…eeee thats fun to work with lol.

and the use time…long usage of course.
5 minutes lighting the moon is only fun for 5 minutes. sy…2 1/2 minutes then the dim down, heat protection kicks in.

multiple main led’s would broaden it’s usage, e.g. 2 main leds that work indipendantly would encompass the bike riders that love hill racing at night, lol! they play with single led’s and yu know? when it fizzles they rap a bike around a trea!! without causing offence, i do see the fun aspect of it, but, with a single bulb in there? ffs…it’s obvious how the frame got broke.

now, for £10 to £25 you can get head torch’s that are small, can light from 50 yard to 150 yards, but theyre all clicky clicky agrevators, or just to big….or whistle, or pulse…or or or…
i have one that has those awful bead led’s in, two… on full it lasts what seems to be forever, lights up to 50yards or, i can actually see comfortably close up and for walking, cost was £12 including postage…it’s brillient to use small lasts etc…they dont sell them anymore. if only it had a dimmer knob on it.(and if only it wouldnt flash mode me just before it goes dark…)
i also have a dim-able cree 70, god does it whistle worse than an early gen 1 head ache night vision but sheesh it’s good near and far and lasts a while…£20.(if you dont mind migraines and eye bleed lol).

so yu jobs done…you’ve recovered from the flash slow flash quick flash the semi morse code in three fformats…(yes with 2 f’s)…its time to pack up, so to switch off flash flash flash mode….bounce n bin fodda.

secret flash mode…ohhh yeah so secret i hope i never find it again lmao!!! eeee shudders…

so i crept allong the feild line (in the dark) and slipped the lamp on, three levals and 4 flash modes to get on…i see the critters have had their tea and cleaned up and left never to be seen again…please kill the clicky mode dimming…it’s only usefull for day trippers and sellers lol.(space stations…men on the moon…nano tecnology…cheepo gadgets from china……we got this…! (lmfao).

head torch
in short…long battery life.
dimmer knob(…thats every mode you want to use…moonlight to turbo…even on off, with the added exspense of a button…oooo modes too).
low profile.
and can reach the 150 yard or more even without a tight spot.(needs a good spill close up)
battery pack could be a pack on leed if its long run times, like a jack plug on the head pack instead of those cheepo death chargers.
doesnt cost more than i payed for my old car lol (seriously).

if it detaches and can be used…a stand or a magnet etc you’d have a ‘tool’ that was fun to play with. or a babey lamp for what ever distance ‘purpose’.

if you look at the market, 5%have all the wealth…the majority is poor… so you can sell to the few or the many.(pricing for both looses a lot of both ends).

a real work light with pow…ooooooo ooodles.

Have you seen the Nitecore HC90? It goes about 110 meters and has a slider on the top to adjust brightness.

pricey, but interesting thank you.

Maybe Imalent HR20 with smooth reflector?It throws 225m and has a Rotary dimming rotating ring

intresting…ty.


Like this for parallel 2AAA or 2AA battery with selectable mix tint,BLF UI Ramping :blush:

I would love BLF TIP2 style with AA.

We need more BLF AA lights in general.

I need

Sofirn SF11 with Anduril2 built like a smaller Q8 powered by AA batteries.

Sofirn SF11 LT1 lantern

A BLF bike light.

A BLF RGBW or more specifically a mass produced ttrev modded D4 light

they were known as ‘fag lights’ (cigarette light) when i was a kid some forty maybe more years back, had the original ‘nearly’ led lights in, 1 version had 1 bulb, but the super duper posh one had two…boy you were the king for nearly two minutes if it had 2 bulbs in it!

I want to see Bridgelux Thrive or Sunlike products…

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Yeah and I’m a bit tired by cylindrical lights.
Small box Leds lights look innovative and flatter to put on pocket, but I want them with 2 NI-MH batt. and perfect UI
Another light that I would like see with selectable tint is The D4,that is smaller than IF25.