Sold out! - GBGB: BLF-348 - Classy and Small 1xAAA Stainless Steel light, with Nichia NVSW219B-V1 R9050

First time for a Nichia 219B ~4500K. Looks great, lousy at beamshots, plus all the tint issues between camera settings and monitors.

The colors look good to me, but I am not an aficionado of the ā€œpopā€ in colorsā€¦.

Beam profile is about a 4 foot hot spot at 10 feet away, plenty of spill. Ran it on a LiFePo4 10440, got warm, not hot. The protected trustfires do not fit. Output increased about half again on LiFePo4ā€™s.

It is a great little light, the thing is a benchmark for single mode penlights. Good balance on everything, the tint is wonderful, at least to meā€¦.

I got mine yesterday. Very nice lights overall.

Has anyone confirmed the emitter bin? It looks different than my other Nichia 219Bs - a bit cooler, and possibly a bit lower CRI. But itā€™s really hard to tell, and could be just a matter of having a different beam shape. Itā€™s amazing how much the optics affect how the tint looks.

In any case, theyā€™ll make nice gifts. :slight_smile:

Glad to hear people are getting their lights and generally happy with them. :)

That's right. Earlier 219B was 4500K, this "NVSW219BT-V1, sw50, R9050" is 4750-5250K. I have been noticing some variation in the tint between different samples, but they are roughly the same => I'd say 4750 to 5250K is quite accurate. (Don't have means to measure the temperature accurately, sorry!)

Emitters to this GB came from IOS, so I'm pretty sure they are as advertised.

I tried to resist this gb and it was a success for a long time, but I finally caved in and ordered one :slight_smile:
Thanks/kiitos =the=

Ah, okay. That makes sense. :slight_smile:

Itā€™s quite a bit cooler than my 219A lights, and only a little bit cooler than my other 219Bs.

The unfortunate part is that itā€™s not as easy to gift eneloops and chargers along with these nice lights. :slight_smile:

As a recent joiner to blf I missed out on the 9.99 price, dang :frowning:
Tempted as an introduction to hi cri lights still though

Look at the first post.
You can still order these lights with the coupon code.

Iā€™m gifting mine with energizer lithium cells.

Got my lights yesterday. All I can say is wow.

I was on the fence about this one for a long time but I finally gave in and ordered one. It arrived just as I was leaving town for the weekend. This is a gorgeous little light. Very sleek and classy. There is a very satisfying click from the switch. The machining is so smooth you canā€™t even see where the tail meets the tube until you unthread it to install a battery. The beam profile is great for a light this size. Nice floody pattern with a subtle hot spot and the tint is a warmish-neutral beauty. I honestly didnā€™t expect to be very impressed with this light but I most humbly admit I was wrong. This is a sweet little light and perfect for gifting! I will try to buy a few more while I can. Well done!

Hereā€™s a white wall, from ~1m (tint in pic is not accurate vs. actual):

Yeah, I put in Energizer lithium primaries when I give these away.
Itā€™s the decent thing to do.

I donā€™t know of any budget one-AAA NiMH charger.

Anyone know of an appropriate board that could be put in a simple box?

Most of the ideas are from years ago, and charge 2 cells at a time, I guess thatā€™s simpler? E.g.*

*Someone asked me recently what ā€œE.g.ā€ means.
I told him it means ā€œExample from googleā€
I am a bad person.

Xtar XP1 is a Li-ion and NIMH charger that you can find under $10 online. Is there anything wrong with that one?

http://lygte-info.dk/review/Review%20Charger%20Xtar%20XP1%20UK.html

Not ideal for giveaway with AAA cells. Thereā€™s an updated ā€œXP1 Plusā€ ā€” I havenā€™t seen a review of it.

It seems that both the clip and the body of this light stick well to magnets. I think Iā€™ll have to include a magnet with each one, for convenience if someone wants to store it on the fridge or something.

Itā€™s not perfect, but HJK says acceptable. I donā€™t take the word ā€œacceptableā€ to mean dangerous or bad, and I feel it would be more than ok for a gift. Probably better then most chargers included with NIMH batteries.

HJK does, at the very bottom of his discourse on proper NiMH charging, set out criteria to define an excellent NiMH charger.

Examples satisfying all criteria are yet to appear. Many come close.

For gifting along with one AAA Eneloop ā€” well, this takes four AAA or AA cells ā€” good way to convert the giftee to using more NiMH in other devices, I guess.
http://lygte-info.dk/review/Review%20Charger%20Panasonic%20BQ-CC16%20UK.html

For quality cheap (~$10) chargers, thereā€™s also the Nitecore i2 and Nitecore D2ā€¦ I feel comfortable with how safe they are to gift them for sure. NiMH is a pretty safe battery to begin with.

FWIW, I measured two BLF-348 units. I got 48.6 lm and 49.1 lm at start, on a fresh Eneloop.

So, just a bit under 50 lumens on a rechargeable NiMH cell.

As for runtime, Iā€™m not sure. It took about a day of frequent use to drain the cell I had laying on my desk. So, a bit faster than Iā€™m accustomed to, and it gets warm during use. I get a few weeks per charge on my 10180 lights, but I only use them at a low level (~10 lm).

Usps tracking shows that mine hit sanfran. Should be here soon!!! :D