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

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.

Choose the “other” checkout, either with or without PayPal, I forget — one but not the other checkout button lets you uncheck that tracking option

I think I’d be more likely to drill the clip as my chubs barely fit the button as it is.

Is this what you were referring to:

Wait, did you get that hole on one of the lights you rec’d from this group buy?
None of mine came like that. Nicely done, however it was done.

It’s doable — resembles the hole that CK drilled out last year with a ball mill

Yes, it was already in/on the light.

It’s funny. I bought a bunch of aftermarket clips and even tried a preon clip. I think I like the stock one best. Any one want some Cnq aftermarket clips?

:slight_smile:

Mine came after about 3 weeks. Very nice.

I agree but only partially.

IMO colors look “correct”. On the other hand, they are all a bit more towards “greyish” or something like that.
I think it may be because of higher K but I´m not sure.
Definitely looks a little different than with warmer white Nichias.

One of mine has almost completely “tintless” beam. I cannot honestly tell any colors from the bare beam when pointing at something white and this is new to me 8)

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Rs=0.5Ohm

I have two lights, one is throwier than the other, the other is slightly warmer, i think, I will have to have a closer look where that comes from, but I do not expect very precise engineering on a 7 dollar light :party:

Btw, this $7.71 Fasttech light has the exact same build as the gb light (but with a -not fake- Cree XP-E led): https://www.fasttech.com/products/1601/10008272/1741600-mini-pen-style-1-cree-r3-1-mode-240-lumen-cool

Ugh another idiotic post sent to all participants. Next time try harder to resist.

Uh, oh… MountainKing is now on the “s” list!