Some news from Barry.
They have an anodised sample, so below are some glam-pics. I asked about how it looks inside and Barry gave me these two not so glamourous pictures, but they do give me confidence that we are on the right track. The arrow points at the hole through which the potting material is applied (just as in the Fenix E01). He assured me again that the potting will be good and that they have an engineer who worked for Fenix before, to underline the assurance. Further he strongly asked me to skip sending samples to BLF-members, to speed up the process. I believe him that this is not about cutting quality corners but that it is about getting this light in production soon, which is a fair enough wish for a company. I think that skipping this step does come with a risk, but I agreed with it because they really want it this way and in the end this is not a really complicated flashlight requiring specific BLF-expertise to evaluate. Any problems should be revealed by their own testing, as long as they are very critical about it (which in the end is to their own adavantage). Barry agreed that testing will be done very critical and will include some very extreme tests, which will be video’ed.
