I’ve turned a lot of throwers into (temporary) flooders by snapping on an appropriately sized translucent bottle cap, or a plastic chair leg tip with the end cut out and a piece of diffusing plastic fitted in.
My Crelant CH10 headlamp is fitted like that, I just tuck the homemade diffuser in my pocket and apply as necessary.
Specific lights for specific jobs is great but sometimes it’s fun, and a lot cheaper, to improvise.
With the S1 I am not sure how the TIR would fit as you can not adjust the pill height.
If you want a flooder I would indeed do a flood TIR (you can get them from lots of places, any 20mm tir should work) I would get a convoy S2+. The lens swap is a simple drop in affair. Simon even has a video showing how to do it. Heck he might do it for you if you request before buying.
which has wider beam angle Klarus G20 or Acebeam EC50 Gen II? I Just need something that can illuminate also at least few cm in front of my foot so that I could see what I step on without pointing the flashlight downward, just like those with TIR lenses, and Astrolux S41 also has wider beam spill even without TIR lens. Thank you very much for the help!
I recommend the S3 Triple from mtnelectronics. Just get all the Carclo optics with it and see what you like best. They’re all floodier than the Astrolux S41 quad. The combo of DrJones H17F Driver and Nichia 219C is amazing.
Yeah S2+ 4 or 6 x 7135 chips for longer runtimes
Then wide angle tir for hotspot free beam
Clip and magnet (and tir) from Simon
Some color matching shrinkwrap and magnets to put on the clip and the ideal EDC is born
They drop right in replacing the reflector and lens with a solid piece of plastic, that fits right over the LED
The conical part acts like a reflector; the front surface is ridged with multiple parallel angles so the light spreads out in a wide fan
If you are looking for something that you don’t have to modify, the E14/S41 would be a good choice IMO.
The beam on those should be a bit more floody than an S2/S2+/S3/S4 with an OP reflector.
Olight s1r is good one choice.Due to the small size , it can easily carry. And as a part of EDC, High model of Olight s1r have 300 lumens so that it can deal with almost every circumstance