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.