There are Millions and Millions of people influencers / KOL out there doing same stuffs every single second but you chose to single out Charles and Me? Why? Because you need more sales than us?
IF it is indeed 1,800,000cd... Yes, I will be very disappointed with the manufacturer. It is a fact that i can't deny, that all parties including me will loss some sales if product is not up to expectation. Manufacturers have to learn from their mistake one way or another.
That is an extremely honorable action. I hope it is true.
Feel free to bash on MEOTE FM1 (oops, you have already done on several occasions), I have nothing to hide for this light. The reason why there was so much of disappointment, it was because of the amount of anticipation.
From FREEME's mouth: FM1 is NOT recommended because of the amount of negative feedback for its Final version. I was very keen to work out the issues with MEOTE back then, but BG and I were met with major roadblock with MEOTE. They were unable disclose problem to me until this date, probably because i was never an employee of them. I was utterly setup by their decisions because of my reputation was at stake, not to mention 5-6 months worth of effort from my side. However, i vowed not to be discourage by this setback and i would emerge stronger with better lights if opportunity arise.
Initial bezel design is rather aggressive. Fortunately they listened to my advice to tone it down, else shredded pants and backpack stories would arise later.
Now this thread is unlocked again, I can share my findings. I thought this light just had high-low, but it actually has turbo, with a double click from on or off. Whilst playing with it inside I thought a double click just took it to high, and high and turbo are that intense I couldn’t tell the difference. So when I took my initial readings, I was only reading high. I’ve taken some more reading since and got the following:
Low - 619Kcd
High - 1.7Mcd
Turbo - 2.38Mcd!
All taken at 6m whilst wearing sunglasses! Haha
Still need to try and do some at around 20m when I get chance.