Already contacted manufacturer, initial quote is still on the higher side.
Please express your interest over at >>https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/35973 Hopefully we could reduce cost through volume.
Mod experts please fall in! We are looking for a candidate who has relevant skill set to maximize the potential of this beast.
Prerequisite:
have experiences in advanced-expert level of flashlight mod. High AMP, HIGH output, multi-emitter conversion... those kind of crazy stuffs.
able to custom hardwares (e.g copper pill or driver design) if required.
has a stockpile of flashlight components ready to deploy.
ability to take decent sharp photos or even a short video.
So someone with a fancy camera, good lighting, parts on hand, a lathe, and a lot of time on their hands? Hmm….
FWIW, if BOSS requires any custom pills or heatsinks to be made to handle heat transfer, then it will be hard to find a lot of buyers I think. It needs to be solidly built from the factory to be popular. Even among the people like me that “mod” everything in some way, few have the ability to make significant structural changes to the lights.
Does anyone know if this manufacturer is sold at the usual BLF stores, banggood, gearbest, fasttech, DX?
Can’t we just ask them to stock it, if we are lucky more than one are already buying from this manufacturer and then we can expect some competition, like on the Olight’s
Just send a sample to Dale i can’t imagine he wouldn’t like it and would not enjoy pushing the BOSS to it’s limit, and he is the resident mod wizard around these parts
Interested in the Boss… I wonder how they manage to align the battery with the contact? Won’t the batteries get “stuck” between the raised tops when screwing the body?
His name is the first to appear in our minds, but I thought of giving others a chance to work with it too.
Flashlight alone. Please take note that "full" retail price is RMB899 (~USD140). It may cost around $50 incl. international shipping.
Approx 90mm dia (based on the pic) x 178mm . We will have more details in a day.
There is room for improvement definitely. All their flagship models will get update every year. Based on their customer feedback, I think they are considering BOSS1 in 4xcree config too.
Precise threads or maybe some marking to assist the alignment?
The “full” retail price may be RMB899, but they do sell them for less than a third of that on TMALL including charger & cells. So we know 140$ is not the true cost or there lowest offering FAR from it
The diameter of the + contacts and the diameter of the flat top 26650’s probably make it impossible NOT to make contact? So if you end up in the middle each battery is making contact on 2 edges of each+ contact? Maybe? I want one so Im very interested in this BOSS light too!
My vote (if i have one ) is on you Tom E :), you are the most experienced who have stepped up at least publicly and surprisingly the only one who seemed interested of our mod aces here at BLF :bigsmile:
I hope you get one, i can’t wait to hear what the BOSS can do.
Shoot - yea, I missed that request earlier. Dunno if I'd be the best one for it, but with a reflector like this size, should be able to get good #'s out of it.
Definitely see a hard-driven MT-G2 and a billion amps in this if it has good heat sinking for the star. If it had a OP reflector then maybe a XHP70 with a billion amps.
What i really want to see is some numbers on the throw kings in there sizes, the dedomed XP-G2 S4 and/or XM-L2 U4.
If any of those makes some budget disruptive for the max thrower light market, killer numbers i will be really happy :). Because every other option for a ready made light with a reflector this big has always costed WAAAAAY over a $100 and the BOSS is about half that
And if they really haven’t screwed up heatsinking on it for a XP-G2/XM-L2 class emitter running flat out, there is no way a 1.2kg massive hunk of alu will not be able to eat that heat like nothing. Of course high amp XPH70 builds can overheat anything not aircooled but, i hope at least we get a nice shelf for the mcpcb.
. This is in the TM36 range for throw, but helluva lot cheaper.