It does not ship right away.
“Ships in 10 days” for my order.
No hurry though…
Apparently there has been a damascus or other mixed metal alloy available, but it seems to be sold out everywhere? I haven’t seen a plain Al either - except in the shop mentionned above (darksucks).
bear in mind darksucks does not make the beta, it is made in China
darksucks is just a reseller for that light… first they used Lumintop to build them, then Jason got upset that Lumintop released a Cu Worm (different tail and mode sequence)
That would be like ReyLight getting upset when Lumintop built him a CuTool with LMH, and then released their own version w MLH…
Rey still sold all his special run lights.
so now Prometheus Betas are made by Olight, and the hosts are showing up on AE…
the ones on AE are single mode only… not the same driver as the darksucks build
it is hard to protect intellectual property, while still using Chinese manufacturing… especially when the USA vendor is more than doubling the price… but he still has a unique product, since his lights are multi mode…
It comes in the original Prometheus Beta QRV2 package but the logo is not etched onto the head. Included are instructions, spare o-ring and clip. The tint is indeed very warm but it does have three modes. It is pure heavy copper - including the keychain ring attachment.
Would be nice to be able to mod this with another driver and emitter. Since it doesn’t have the Prometheus logo I would not feel too bad for supporting a fake.
imo it sounds like the factory that darksucks used to build the Beta, has a surplus of inventory to resell under their own label.
you may know darksucks got pissed at Lumintop when they came out with the CU Worm, which looks to be made from similar plans as the Beta (because darksucks outsourced production to Lumintop)
so afaik, darksucks moved their production to Olight, after acquiring the brand 47s
iow, I speculate the lights on Aliexpress are no longer contract lights built for darksucks, they are orphans, without the logo, or overproduction, if you will
LMH is a very popular mode sequence… and Im glad to hear it is a warm LED offering. Im guessing it is moddable to 219b… for higher CRI Lovers. The price is not that low, I would put the Cu Tool up against the Beta, since I prefer the tailswitch over a twisty…
Yeah but these lights are not their original design and even ships in the same box as the real thing with logos and all, to me that makes it a fake. If it didn’t ship in the Prometheus light packaging then it would be considered as a unauthorized oem.
In China there are very few “surplus” situations because small scale production can easily started at any given time. Factory over run and factory reject and very common sales pitch for counterfeit items. These obviously aren’t surplus because they’re produced in the Damascus version which the original isn’t. They had the design for a flashlight that sells well and they kept producing it, minus the logo to not get into more trouble.
You can also find The Kappa QR keychain in copper or titanium for $9 all over AE. This is an original darksucks design.
Some time ago AE stopped selling Jeff Hanko clones, these are still available in all sorts of emitter and aux leds flavors, copper, aluminum and titanium, Apparently they sell very well to local buyers on the Chinese eBay. Maybe there was a dispute but AE still carries all sorts of counterfeit ZT, Chris Reeves and other big name brand knives clones.
I bought a Cu Beta from darksucks.
It was my first High CRI experience and I am grateful for that.
Im less happy about the fact that it cost 3x more than the ones in this thread.
politics and economics aside
I enjoyed this Lego
Sold the Beta when I saw PWM in a photo I took with it, and adopted the CuWorm head instead, because it had No PWM
I wonder if the present model is PWM free… seems like a nice light… in other regards
Ugh, I keep coming back to this thread. That titanium one is calling my name.
I don’t need another flashlight… I don’t need another flashlight… I don’t need another flashlight…
And the knockoff thing… yeah, I get it. I don’t love that aspect of it. But there is no way I’m spending $125 on a AAA light. Just isn’t happening. $25… yeah, I can do that. Either way, darksucks wouldn’t be getting my money. Nothing personal agent him (them?), it’s just not worth it to me.