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

So glad I stopped in and spotted this before they’re gone. Crazy good deal!

Cart won’t allow to delete tracking $1.99 so the real cost is $8.98, unless I’m doing something wrong.

Gorgeous light, the only thing I could wish for is a moonlight mode.

Standard battery and a simple UI makes it a perfect giveaway.

Thanks for organizing the GB!

Got mine today. Flawless. I’ll get some photos during the week

Moonlight and high would have been perfect for me.

Received mine and love them. It remains just sightly warm with an eneloop and doesn’t need much to figure out how to use it, perfect for gifts. Construction is excellent and it’s hard to see where the tailcap meets the body which means good machining.

I ordered 2 but wish it have been more, although people have mixed feelings when I gift them a flashlight, they give me this strange look :~ until I explain them why this is superior than their 2D incan in the kitchen drawer.

I wanted better color rendition .

I bought four , and none of my examples have the beautiful tint and CRI from my other Nichia 219B emitters .

They will still make great gifts .

Bad news: mine is busted, it ran almost one cycle on NiMh and now, no light but 2A drain… Havent opened yet…

Good news: still got 4 of em to go.

ugh, don’t say that. :frowning: I only ordered one and it’s not here yet.

About tint……

Very neutral. Regular “neutral white” is nowhere near as neutral as this looks to my eye.
After this neutrals look like warm.

OTOH: reds dont pop-out so much as with neutral or warm white (if you prefer it like that).

I got one older Nichia but it is WW and High CRI.

With this and white wall, I have to say it is hard to detect any tint. It is mostly just white.
Of course, depends on your eyes… I recently did a test, Im tetrachromatic.

In short:

I REALLY LIKE THE TINT!!! 8)

Thats bad news. High CRI was the main reason I ordered this light. I havent got my light yet.

Well I’ll throw in the contrarian position, because I don’t know what these other folks are going on about. I also only bought one and its great - works flawlessly, beautiful tint, great CRI. And yes I have other 219b emitters for comparison. Its so good that I went back and ordered a couple more, for some reason.

You folks who haven’t received yours yet can stop worrying - the light is great.

You can't compare the CRI of 2 different tints without being subjective, the 4500K is simply another tint (nominal by the way), the CRI is not, you just totally prefer the 4500K. I am saying this because I go some NVSW219B-V1 in 5000K and it is unfair to call them as not having good CRI.

+1

Please note that the light uses the 219B-V1 emitter, that started shipping last spring, it’s 5000K as opposed to previous 219B with 4500K.

It’s a more natural color temperature and the typical CRI is 93 (previous version is 92).

@Ormbett: Don’t worry mate. It’s high CRI. All Nichia 219B are…

Thanks! After the recent posts in this thread I feel much better :slight_smile:

Ok, there was just some metal in wrong place behind the pill - working now.

Tested 4 side by side against white wall and there are some small tint differences. Some a bit warmer, some a bit cooler. You can tell when they are side by side but individually tested its hard to say which one is which…

I ordered one of these. Didn’t use a coupon (only knocked a few pennies off) as it meant I wouldn’t be able to use a few points I’d earned. The points took the price down to £3.40, happy enough with that. For once in my life I have more flashlights en route than I do knives…….!!!

What? Not on any of mine.

Switch your “Input format” (below the comment box) to “Advanced” and you can drag and drop a picture in (make it small first if it’s huge)

You also need to add more carriage returns and otherwise fiddle a bit if you’re writing text, usually it’s not worth doing, but to post a pic, try that.