Your practical usages of high CRI flashlights?

This, plus xtars threads are itself marketing, giving the brand visibility with not much effort. I might be mistaken, but he starts topics but never really enters the discussion.

In all honesty I don’t see it as a problem. Xtar is following the trend of hobbyists, which is the cutting edge and the way forward. The more decent leds that flood the market the better right…? Sure I may not clearly notice the difference myself but I’m sure there are a lot of Muggles out there with better eyesight than me. I say muggles because I’m pretty sure most hobbyists are aware of cri and make their own choices.

I just wanted to comment that it looked like a marketing ploy. If xtar was straight up and said so I wouldn’t have posted.

Agree, it always bugs me when someone starts a thread and then walks away from it without another comment.

CRI is 1st factor I consider when buying EDC, second one is regulated output.
If not high CRI and crap driver I don’t bother.
Thrower is a different story, CRI is not cruicial.

I agree 100% on EDC which is typically a small but powerful light and mainly used for short distances. With throwers, like a C8, they are not EDC and when used for seeing 200 meters downrange CRI is not a factor to me.

Maybe in other words, when life has got ya down, and yer bored with yer surroundings, CRI your eyes out. You’ll feel better in the morning. :laughing: :beer:

Perfect world is a flashlight that puts out 300lm/W (no heat) at 95CRI in every colour temperature.
And solid state lithium batteries with capacities several times what we have now and last almost forever.

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Yeah, this is pretty disingenuous. I realize a flashlight maker initiated the discussion, but still. They COULD have engaged some meaningful chat about it, also CRI, TCR, and TM-30. But no… dropped bait, stepped back to the edge, and watched what would unfold.

I would have contributed, but the intention here bothers me.

>As for high CRI flashlights, do you think how important it is?

Very important. I like to have the highest possible light quality at a given colour temperature. I'm willing to accept some trade-offs for efficiency but ideally I want my flashlight beam to be just light sunlight .. because that's the ultimate goal for a general use flashlight, right?

You know, I never understood CRI until I read this. Can’t thank you enough.

Yeah i’m confused too—Is high CRI the turds or the steak…? :innocent:

I use my Emisar 2000K E21A lights around my house at night and for lights in my office, bathroom, etc. just need to swap batteries out frequently

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I def didn’t understand it before also. Happy thats no longer the case and happy I was able to help someone else understand it too.

Well I guess that depends on you and what you’re used to consumin partna. :slight_smile:

I bet I bought 20 6500K lights before finally giving warm lights a go. Now I never go above like 4000 at most

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This is good to know but how about a thread where you ask questions, we tell you what we value and you answer with what makes sense or doesn’t make sense for Xtar.

From CRI to max outputs to UI to temperature regulation to battery types and more we can give you lots of useful information but by replying to us you will get better answers and better ideas.

We have many suggestions and would be happy to explain them :slight_smile:

That’s precisely what I was thinking.

Given the relatively cheap cost of individual emitters, I’m thinking that one could make a multi-emitter light that features two different kinds of emitters to select from. Such as high CRI and low CRI. Considering the amazing advances achieved in CNC machining, imagine a quad TIR, with an emitter board featuring 8 emitters, and a rotating collar accessible from the head exterior. You rotate one direction to a fixed stop position and one bank of emitters is lined up with the TIR. Rotate in the opposite direction to a fixed stop position where the alternative bank of emitters is lined up with the TIR. You can then have a UI that activates either bank, or both simultaneously. The emitters in line with the TIR project normally, while the emitters askew from the TIR acts as a “mule”, similar to what we’ve seen available from Emisar.