I have a wizard pro v3. Is the button on the new C2 different than the v3?
My v3’s button occasionally thinks a single click is a double click. Not often, but a couple times a month. I’ve heard other people experience the same thing with the V3 button.
Their “White” color temp option is usually about 5500-5700K. If it’s any lower CCT than that it will be listed as “warm white” based on all the lights they’ve done for years.
I can appreciate that when they started 10+ years ago almost everything was cool white. And labeling anything that wasn’t cool as warm to differentiate was useful at the time. It seems to me that they and everybody else is aware of the difference between warm, neutral, and cool. Although the neutral middle ground is not 100% defined. But I do take issue with them trying to sell me a cool white without specifying what it was. I’m sure that some people bought it not knowing that a warm,NW was available or will be.
Any tint comparisons between this and the Wizard Nichia? Very tempted to add another to my collection. Does the v4 charger work on v3/nichia lights as well?
Here’s a little comparison. Below is the original photo taken in manual mode using LG G6 smartpgone. Flashlights set in turbo 1 mode.
As some of you know, taking pictures of flashlights with a higher color rendering index is tricky. The light in the photos appears to be rosier than it actually is. Modding my wizard v3, I trusted what I saw in the pictures taken by Clemence, this is why I have chosen the E21A 4000K LEDs. As it turned out later, these LEDs have a pink shade only in turbo 2. They are awful green in medium modes. Not wanting to confuse you, I have edited the photo using GIMP to make it look like what my eyes see.
Wizard Nichia seems to be perfectly white. It is possible that Duv is slightly negative (–0.0005 more or less).
The color of the E21A 4000K in this mode is quite pleasing to the eye. Duv close to zero.
v4 C2 PRO warm is a little bit colder than E21As. The color is clearly pink (–0.0040 or even less).
I am looking forward to Maukka’s accurate measurements.
Thanks for the detailed pictures. The pink doesn’t look terrible and better pink than green I suppose. Wondering why Armytek hasn’t made any official announcements yet. Hopefully they’ll have some sort of sale going on later this month
Yeah a version with 144A will probably launch later, like the current Nichia Wizard V3 but with the C2/V4’s updates. Manual was likely just written ahead of time and will be used for the whole line.
I find this info on a PDF from ArmyTek. ( I changed the term Turbo for Maximum because there is not such thing as turbo on a flashlight this not an engine ).