It’s beautiful. Threads are a bit tight and it’s slippery, so mode switching is a two hand ordeal. Emitter was cool white. Modes were M-L-H with memory. Mode switching / off-time timing seemed inconsistent/finicky. The pill was glued in with some weak greyish stuff. I swapped the pill out for the one I had in an EDC01: 4000K Luxeon V2 with M-L-H no memory. Probably not the last mod but it’s a good start.
I E-mailed with Martin this week. He is good,
but thinking about leaving te whole flashlight sene.
I will not say more, as it is not my place to do so.
He is still very active on facebook, and i’m sure he will reply if you contact hem
I was wondering this too. Martin Helped me get something sorted out with NG a couple months back, he has always been the most on point GB coordinator in terms of helping after the fact in my limited experience.
I hate facebook, and never go on. But I wish him the best if he does move on from here.
Apparently he likes that he now only has to "serve" one single company, only has to speak to german speaking customers potentially (though I wouldn't have thought he really minded speaking english...). What he's actually doing I don't know. Probably website stuff and maybe some marketing videos for olight here and there, asking whether or not you already have the i3T in all 247 available colors or which one you're missing. And of course only praising the lights, not being allowed to talk critically but fairly about them and comparing them to competitors.
IMHO he would've done well to pick someone who could take over the good relationships he had with banggood and neal so at least the community can continue to benefit. But of course that's his choice. IIRC he said it's possibly not permanent though, so he might come back at some point.
Yea, coming back after transitioning to a corporation like olight, like you said where you cannot fairly and honestly compare your products to the competition, will be interesting. If he comes back soon I would understand it, if he comes back in a couple years time... well we all love Martin but people move on. I'm really surprised and kind of disappointed he went to a company like olight. Like you said, those schill marketing videos they make.. their gross. And it surprises me because Martin seemed like one of the few reviewers that would really call a company out for their shortcomings. Now this? I thought the first person who said it was joking..
(as an aside, I worked for a large corporation for some years, and it drains your soul, couldn't imagine applying that to something that is supposed to be fun like hobbyist flashlights).
right, bc now we are moving to Less and less people having relationships with manufacturers and providing us discounts and groubuys. I don't know if this will helps us as a community or hurt us but I do know we will definitely find out. And I also know that less options on how and where we spend our money is, generally speaking, Not a good thing.