I love wurkkos lights and really want this one to happen, so here’s my 0.02c
There are tons of 10k+ lumens soda can lights out there, what you need here is a larger head with deeper fins for high sustained output. I would like to see ~2,500lm and at least 150kcd sustained. I have the M43 and Olight X7R and they’re useless for outdoors because after stepping down there is zero useful range. My L6 in the other hand, works amazing outdoors.
The area right below the surrounding flood reflectors, use them to accommodate deeper fins.
I would use an middle optic instead of a reflector to maximize throw like the one found in acebeam L18/L19. There’s no need for spill when you have the floody emitters.
If can’t be individually controlled, output should ramp/step like this:
SFT40 throw: 1….50….100……100
SST20 flood: 1….25….50………100
Why? Because it makes zero sense to keep sending power to the flood emitters instead of the main SFT40 above ~5,000lm, where your eyes will automatically adjust to the surroundings rendering the SFT40 throw useless. 5,000lm flood because that’s what I personally feel to be sufficient for ANY close-mid range outdoor task.
If possible, add another tripod mount above/below the side switch, this way you could use a handle and operate the light at the same time. Doesn’t have to screw in 1/2” deep, 1/4”–20 thread is quite strong.
Tint ramping has its niche and it’s fun to play with in an compact edc light or lantern, but I don’t think it’s relevant here.
Thanks gchart for your comment. Do you mean just cancel the tint ramping part(in TS32 flood/throw ramping)? Is this just you or most BLF members? I am curious.
This light will use two mcpcbs for sure.
There is a tripot socket in the neck next to the switch, not sure if that is the mentioned 1/4 x20 treaded hole.
What is the back lit button you mean?
Handle is addable, looking to design one to sell seperately as accessory, so members here can choose to have or not to have according to their demand.
Hi kokosnh, not sure if there is any conflict with Anduril II ui, but /adjusting the brightness for fold and throw separately by 1H, 2C for changing between changing fold and throw brightness distribution/ sounds great.
We have improved the fins already, the previous design with shallower fins, we will still look chance to improve it. Hopefully we can see it in the final product.
I would suggest something similar to Acebeam X45. 4 x XHP70.2, but with deeper reflector for better throw.
With USB charging port and removable handle.
Ps. I like that the tube looks like it have lots of small fins, does making them deper have any considerable impact on cooling, or on the heat transfer to the hand?
I like the idea of purchased separately optional difuzer in a form of lantern, to screw in place of strike bezel. Or do some threads on outside, so you can screw difuzer directly to the flashlight. So that it can be used outdoor and indoor. And then, with difuze, the tint changing and 6 x 2700K SST-20 and 6 x 4000K SST-20 would make more sense for me. I was waiting for sofirn BLF LT1 lantern version on multi 21700 cells, but that could be end, if this have option to buy separately an additional difuzer.
I believe your 12 SST-20’s with almost no reflector are going to create a wall of light and glare. This would actually inhibit some of the throw from the center LED as to what the user could actually see. Those 12 LEDs are in a very short range of usefulness. I believe you would be better served with 4 evenly spaced LEDs such as XHP70’s or SFT40’s. The dimensions look good. As others have pointed out larger fins and maybe a little more mass.
I really like the look of this. If sales go well then you could offer different LED options. For example as well as 12 SST20 + 1 SFT40 you could offer:
12 Nichia E21A (or 219B) and 1 SST20. Not so much output but warm white and high CRI
12 Samsung LH351D and 1 Osram Boost HX. Should give some more output and throw.
12 XHP50.2 and 1 SBT90.2. This would require a different MCPCB and maybe different reflector but it would be very fun! Similar to the Acebeam X80, which fits loads of XHP50.2 LEDs in a small space
Similar to the Acebeam X80, which fits loads of XHP50.2 LEDs in a small space