Honestly curious why. I hope people keep buying them and the technology evolves to suit my uses, but they’re just not useful to me at those prices. Other than the wow factor, which I do enjoy.
Ah, I see. I won’t deter anyone from seeking profits, but seems like they missed the market here. What do I know, I bet they sell enough. I gave away a trustfire z6 thats still in frequent use.
Moonlight on a LEP is fairly unique. Actually it’s listed at 8 lm, which isn’t exactly moonlight but is much lower than most if not all other low modes on LEPs.
That should give around 140m throw for the claimed 56 hours. I can’t think of one but I bet someone has a perfect use case for that.
They are not ‘white lasers’. They emit just like an LED. The only primary difference is that the phosphor is excited by a blue laser remotely rather than a blue LED. Due to thermal and optical limitations in traditional LED design, LEPs can achieve higher intensity (luminance) and therefore increased throw. Due to various factors including optic losses, lumen output is fairly low. Personally, I’m waiting to see a collar added to one. That could get interesting
They are much lower wattage than what most of us are used to on BLF. Max current draw is often under 3A and voltage around 4V. So 12W? That’s less than 1mm² Osrams. Long focal length convex optics likely only let out 50ish percent of the lumens on top of that. So all things considered, I think they do well. A recoil LEP is another idea that I think would be awesome.