Hello, all! Y’all sold me on the 4500k too. I just purchased my first Hank light! A D4V2 in all copper, with an amber backlight, and quad 219b 4500k’s. I’m so freakin’ excited, it’s going to be really hard to wait for it to come in the mail.
Been lurking for awhile now and have been putting off ordering my first Hank light for awhile now. I’ve been very indecisive because I’ve been foolishly trying to figure out what would be “the perfect Hank light if I only ever buy one”, which is silly, because I know myself better than that. There will be more to come.
My name is Ryan and I’m from Texas. I don’t know if an introduction is customary here like it is over in LPF. My hyperfocus recently shifted from lasers to flashlights, so after hanging out with the good folks on LPF for awhile and purchasing a couple of incredible lasers from Sanwu and another one on BS&T from a really cool and capable laser maker in Vietnam, I started obsessing about flashlights. Lasers are a new love for me, flashlights are not. But even though I’ve loved my flashlights since I was a kid and always had a little incandescent mini-mag on me, I never bought any lights that were just really cool until now. As far as EDC as an adult, I started with a Streamlight Microstream, which, to be honest, still gets some time in the pocket because it’s tiny, weighs nothing, and I don’t mind if it gets lost or broken. That thing combined with a Benchmade Bugout is pretty much unnoticeable in the pocket, and doesn’t even weigh down loose pockets of thin shorts. Then awhile back I got a copper Olight i5T EOS because I wanted a AA light for work, because I am a wildland firefighter, among other things, and there is ALWAYS AA batteries around in that line of work. I lost that light and recently bought an aluminum one for work and a brass one because it looked shiny, and I also purchased a copper mini warrior from Olight, which I really like, except I don’t care at all for the tint and coolness of the emitter. But that’s Olight for you. I also recently purchased an Acebeam H17 with 3x 219C’s in 5000k for around the house, and that’s a pretty fun little headlamp. In addition, I recently convinced our district to get us Acebeam H30’s and T36’s. I wanted to get us zebralights, but when factoring in the entire context, the Acebeams just made more sense.
But now, now I have purchased a Hank light. My first. And as luck would have it, with the legendary Nichia 219B’s.
We’ll see how long it is before I can’t wait any longer and order a DT8 as well, lol. I really want some 219B’s in 3500k.