Yes, those were the ones I found when I was looking around. From what I found it appears that the engraved lights are all gone, but they still have some of the plain ones.
Seems to be actually OOS now. I see the Singfire with an XP-E, but no Nichia 219B versions of the –348 available anywhere. Is another group of these going to be made?
I’d love one in brass. I swear I saw this somewhere but I can’t find it now.
My thinking is that it would be hard to convince GB to make another run right now unless there was a large commitment like we did before these two runs. If I was GB I would be thinking that they must have pretty well saturated the market right now, due to the numbers we bought.
I am starting to see Nichia 219C emitters in lights with advertised CRIs of >80. If these start to take off, I could see the market for 219B emitters drop off, to the point that it might make monetary sense to do another run. Only time will tell.
The factory says they can’t make a driver that would:
- support both AAA and 10440
- have more than one mode
and
fit into the available space
Calling all driver designers: Please design a good driver (and give me the designs for free ;)) so that we can have 2 or 3 mode version of this light in the future.
What kind of problems? I find that any light under $10 suffers from at least some quality problems.
In my last two batch purchases of this light, I find they have the following issues:
1. Inconsistent tints. Not only does the color temperature vary, but I had one with a sickly green tint. I’ve never seen that in a Nichia 219, so they must be buying the cheapest 219 bins they can get.
2. Threads are too fine, and easily crossed. One of my lights has such bad threads that I can’t even screw it on properly. It still works, but only because the threads are not anodized so the tailcap doesn’t have to be screwed all the way in.
3. The switch is just a press fit, and can sometimes work itself into a position where it doesn’t work. Though, this can be solved by using a pencil to push it back into place.
4. It’s not waterproof. This isn’t really a problem (it doesn’t claim to be waterproof), but something to be aware of if you like to wash dirt/sweat off your lights like I do.
That said, I still really like this light. (Well, except for the one I have with an awful green tint.) It’s a good buy at the GB price.
I noticed that in Batch #3 as well. Comparing them to my Batch #2 lights, they are much worse. Definitely some green tint. I guess I could always swap the emitter but that defeats the point of the cheap light.