It’s arrived! That’s got to be one of the fastest orders from shipment notification that I’ve received from banggood. It’s on charge now, I’ll do some measurement later. First impressions are good! Battery has tape on the bottom and is VERY tight in the tube. Smaller than I expected, which is a good thing. UI is click for on, click to cycle high-low, hold for off, triple click for strobe. Really wish it was hold to cycle and click for off, but oh well. Now the wait for it to get dark!
So managed to do a quick test tonight. Was a bit tricky as I had to try and do 12m inside, and was struggling to read the meter at that distance, so I’m taking these with a pinch of salt. I got 1.95Mcd. Really need to try a further one outside with someone giving me a hand. Anything around 5 or 6 meters is just pointless with this light, it just whites out the whole area and blinds you! Also, this light uses the original LEP module with a mirror, so at shorter distances there’s a black hole in the middle of the beam. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s still focusing at 12m.
It’s actually a bit smaller than I thought it was going to be. It may be a tad longer than the FT03, but it’s head diameter is quite a bit smaller. It could definitely be carried in a jacket pocket.