And first contact with Thorfire is made. We send the initial demands but the rep here was not aware what a SRK is.
In the huge pile of text send, was a mention if maybe a choice of three emitters could be made (XP-L Hi in two tints and Nicha 219C.
We are discussing LEDs and well XP-L Hi just blasts out the most and that is what a SRK is all about.
So in this stage, nothing is clear.
But it is enervating to have started this group buy and see the responses!
Well with the right construction 1300 lumens x4 is the idea (but does that make 5200?).
Let me recycle the post I just placed in “what you got today”
Ordered a diffuser for a DSL flash
It looked like I could mod it to fit a SRK and make it useable as camping/table light.
It came today
And, no modding needed, it fits over the Uniquefire 1401 and SRK as it is.
It comes with three pieces to use at the top, a hard plastic shiney and two soft plastic, white and orange.
I think I will spray paint the orange silver to have more light out of the sides and get rid of this:
(lol at the blue tint the LBs in the SRK it is put on gives it)
The amazement about the UV-S5 is what got me into thiss mess by the way. .
Guess this groupbuy is gonna make a lot of folks lose a lot of money and spare time.
+1 on dropping the lanyard (never use these on large lights anyway) and adding a simple clip-on diffuser and/or a detachable grip like on the Roche M170
For the more non DIY folks who are barely hanging on to the discussion on specs, should we also talk about an actual performance goal? Lumens, beam width, distances, runtime, etc… I think it’s awesome to just throw a bunch of cool parts together and see what happens, but a consensus on what we actually want it to do will help drive the specs a little more accurately, yes?
How about, “illuminate a football field from the 15th row with enough light to play by for 2 hrs”. I’m still learning, be gentle.