FWAA w/Nichia 219C 3000K, and Vapcell 14500 H10 battery.
Pre-ordered on 4/19, shipped on 4/28, arrived at my doorstep 4/30. That’s a record speedy delivery for me (HK to US)! I’m enjoying the FWAA so far! Thank you for this group buy, freeme/NealsGadget!
Thanks to freeme and nealsgadgets for arranging this group buy, SST20 4k ordered along with a couple of other goodies to hit the free shipping threshold. While I still hope the SP10S BFL edition (link for those interested) comes to fruition one day I am sure the FWAA will meet my needs for many years to come.
Just received mine, 219c and a battery. What an excellent piece of kit it is too. Definitely in for a brass or copper version. I will also get an sst20 version as well
Just got home from work to find a package containing my two (3000k and 4000k 219c). Very nice little lights, smaller than I was expecting! I can see this being my new EDC, I just really wish they would have made the clip deep carry! Hopefully they’ll come out with one later, along with a SS bezel that I’ll inevitably buy.
Perhaps I am not explaining it or I am not reading it correctly. I do not find going from 1900 lumens to 100 lumens with nothing in the middle acceptable. I mention the Sofirn light as a comparison because it seem to not only have quite acceptable turbo run time but also several mid level run times.
It does ramp down like every other Anduril light. If you dislike it won’t hold at 500 lumens because the lack of higher amperage current regulation and host heat limits then this is not the light for you.
I am simply comparing the characteristics of this light to other similar lights. If find it to be more utilitarian to have some more usable mid power levels. That’s all. Nothing angry about that.
My comment was poorly worded so I edited it. I will say that when I was tailstanding the light and ceiling bouncing I would have swore it was at least 200 lumen, it has a nice optic for that it seems.
I have an early fireflies e07 that has the similar behavior because the driver is FET+1/FET+3.
You are not reading the chart correctly. Read up on the ANSI standard for flashlights. The time listed is how long it can maintain 10% of the initial output. So if a light starts out at 1000 lumens and then drops to 100 lumens after a minute, and then stays at 100 lumens for an hour, it can then claim over an hour runtime at the 1000 lumen level.
Wow, that’s not helpful and misleading you might be thinking. Yep. That’s why most of the flashlight makers use it. Makes the lights look so much better than they are to the uninformed.
Bottom line, you need to look at a runtime graph to find out how a flashlight actually performs over time. And generally speaking, the smaller the light, the lower the sustainable output is going to be.
No doubt this host could sustain more than 100 lumen thermally, but space constraints for the driver I am sure are another factor. When someone tears one apart we can judge the modding potential.