I would love to know how much output the XP-L2 can sustain at 65°C when tailstanding. My FW21 Pro does max ramp for a while then drops to 80% of that at normal room temp (about 22°C). Fireflies claim 1200lm lasts for 2.8 hours with a 40T. That’s amazing if true.
Based on the graphs above it seems you can probably assume it will tailstand even higher than 1200lm (with xpl2 anyways) for a little under 1hr and at a lower setting (which may be around 1200lm) for almost 2.5hrs
Mine arrived today, and the threads, while not anodized, appear to be cleanly cut. The tail cap threads on/off quite easily.
Glad to hear yours looks like the OP picture.
I’ve reached out to Jack via email on January 25th and have not heard back to the issues with mine.
No reply from Fireflies yet.
Looks good, what is the expected price and waterproof rating?
Tint :
Not much tint shift vs current, the lens increases duv by about 0.001 and decrease CCT by about 50K (I didn’t measure turbo without it).
This is my first light with sw45k, I assume the higher duv is because this is D220 and not D200. On its own it looks slightly rosy, nothing overly pronounced.
TM-30 reports :
Rg is around 100, so colors aren’t more saturated, again probably because it’s D220, D200 gets around 107~108 I think?
I doubt the light is meant to be opened from the tail. With the clip there it’s probably more reliable to have current through threads and it allows more play if you remove clip. Just unscrew the head?
Interested if good price, looks nice!!
Like the lhd samsung emitter
Anybody from Canada order one and receive it yet? Just wondering how long it took and if the tracking worked. Thanks
I am expecting a bit of a wait for my order. I’ll give it a couple of weeks before I even check the website
Somes pics :
I’m satisfied with it but it’s not without issues :
- opening for the USB plug is too small so it doesn’t fit in fully and can unplug itself from the cable tension. The rubber cap doesn’t feel very compressed in place, I doubt the water resistance is very good.
- the threads are not anodised on the tail side, they came non lubrified and the cap was hard to screw, with plenty of lube they are okayish. Consequently mechanical lockout isn’t possible with the tail cap. In my opinion this is not acceptable for a 100$ flashlight. (Edit : as toobadorz explained below the reason for this is to be able to tighten the clip in place and still have electrical contact)
On the head side the thread are anodised, so lockout is possible by unscrewing the head, but they are fine trapezoidal threads, not very practical for swapping the cell, (@contatcr : the manual says to insert the cell through the tail), there are spots without anodising in the threads, when unscrewing a few turns the light flashes again.
- a few barely visible spots without anodising.
- no moonlight, the lowest level has a light flicker
On the good side :
- nice looking, I like it.
- very nice beam, tint, barely any current tint shift.
- to the naked eye the sustained output looks very good despite the emitter (219B).
- the MCPCB and leds looks very clean. By the way the aux LEDs are on a separate PCB contrary to the prototype.
- the button is relatively quiet, but the short travel and high activation force (~800g) can be a bit disorientating at first.
The machining must ensure that the tailcap can be screwed on pretty tightly, so as to keep that pocket clip stable. But that means there are can be some small gap between the end of the body tube and the inner contact surface of the tailcap, considering the tolerance of machining accuracy. So I believe the threads on the tail side are left with no anodization and lubrication intentionally, to ensure good contact and low resistance. The battery should be installed from the head side, Fireflies should fix the manual. Noctigon KR4 and KR1 also exhibit similar design (tailcap must be screwed on to press the pocket clip), but a small additional O-ring is added above the clip to fix the small gap and compensate the difference, so their threads on the tail side can be anodized too.
Also, I do agree with you that the threads on the head side should be thicker.
I understand what you mean, then the solution from the KRx seems preferable. I removed the clip so the end of the tube is fully in contact with the cap, it leaves a ~0.4 mm gap with the body while the clip is 0.8mm, so indeed when the clip is installed the end of the tube doesn’t make contact with the cap, but only with the threads.
All of this makes sense because if they anodized the upper threads, it is clearly intentional as to why they didn’t anodize the lower threads.
My bigger concern is the flicker at moonlight, thats disappointing. Ultimately, this kind of light wasn’t bought for use in moonlight, but its still faulty if that is consistent across all lights.
I have one of these on order, and am not loving the issues being reported here. I am hoping for some more positive reviews, and that the production process has bedded in a bit now.
I feel the same… I was hoping that since these were second generation lights from FF, small issues like these would have been ironed out.
On the other hand, I have read alot of posts on Reddit of people receiving them and loving them.
I see Fireflies just made a new video for the new E07 flashlight!
The blue color look very nice, but I think I prefer more simple 'diamond' knurl for the grip.
Yes they do seem more positive in Reddit and they mentioned that the tail cap threads are not supposed to be lubricated.
I have several new gen FF lights on order but haven’t received them yet. I’m glad they didn’t lubricate the threads because I clean off the stock lube on every one of my flashlights I receive. Once the lube gets on the contact, you can lose tremendous amount of lumens. I know this because I test output all the time with my TA lumen tube. If the threads go on rough, I use the electrically conductive grease NO-OX-ID. Works great.
Seems like FF intentionally anodized the top threads but not the bottom threads. There must be a design reason as it would not have made a difference in cost.
Wow that E07 v2 beam is mighty impressive. So smooth, round, and no artifact! Looks like a high powered thrower!