I am not disappointed that I ordered one even though I really dislike 6000+k. With any luck there will be an mcpcb that will fit the light. To me an electronic tail switch 14500 triple is about the perfect platform. I really do not care what type of LED they use, but I do hope that they make them in a warmer color temp.
I didn’t read it that way. More of a ‘I will keep tabs on this light in case they come out with more CCT options in the future’ kind of thing. That’s my plan as well.
I for one am super excited that another company is building auxiliaries into their lights, and pricing so affordably, and including a battery for only $2 extra. Not only these things, but a triple 14500!!!
STOKED!!!
So the LED is a bit of surprise….for $21 its fine with me. I ordered two: orange and ice blue.
Personally I couldn’t pass up a light like this at this price point, the cool white is eh, but I’m wondering if because of the high cri some of the normal “downfalls” of it will be remedied.
Well nuts…I had no idea they would put in this type of emitter. If I had known that I don’t think I would have ordered the light. Figured we’d be using a normal/standard die and footprint. Oh well, at least it was cheap and maybe it’ll be fun or make a good gift. Unless that color temp is exceptionally nice it probably won’t be a keeper for me. Not sure I’m too keen on sourcing some of those emitters to swap but I guess that’s an option.
Pretty radical departure from the norm…would have been nice to have that communicated.
I just got a word with Clemence (ERKX), showed him the emitter datasheet and he said it could be a straight Nichia E21A swap. Not 100% sure because i don't have it on hands but soon (hopefully) i'll report back with some mod update. :)
Man these emitters are skinny! If you’re going to mod, get out your super fine hair tip tweezers. Data sheet isn’t all that encouraging, compared to emitters we are used to using. The reflow characteristics hint at users being able to do it right and do it quickly, and be able to control the temperature decently.
Specs say a total thickness of +/- 0.32mm. That’s including the phosphor. That’s about one half of a B35AM and those are pretty thin! For the SAE among us, that’s about 0.013”, thirteen thou….1/64” is about 0.015”. Looks like the base is something around half the thickness (phosphor being the other half). Sounds easy to damage the edges/surface of these with typical small electronics tweezers. Also seems like a candidate for using a stencil with solder paste…those pads are teeny tiny.