I guess most people will use it with the 14500 Li-ion battery that ships with the light, but it’s pretty neat that it can also be used with a commonly available AA battery in an emergency.
I think dual emitters - if they were actually different - could be useful. The difference between NW and CW is too small to be useful at all IMHO. I said this in the poll thread HERE.
For dual white emitters, it should have been warm and cool, so the “blend” would land around neutral. This neutral/cool combo doesn’t do anything for me. Apparently, lots ofat least some people agree.
First I have to say that this is indeed a very nice looking light, with the attractiveness that MecArmy usually releases!!!
About the emitters, some members may have seen it there, while others don’t, so I will post this here!
There is/was a thread to “choose” the combination of LEDs for this light!
Cool white + Neutral white = 12% (9 votes)
Cool white + UV (Comment the wave length) = 3% (2 votes)
Cool white + Red = % (1 vote)
Neutral white + UV = % (30 votes)
Neutral white + Red = % (34 votes)
UV + Red = % (0 votes)
These are the voting results that can be seen on the #1 post on that thread.
This week the OP mentioned that the light had been released. When questioned about the “options” for this light’s emitters, this was the answer, on this post :
These quotings and references are just to frame the “work” discussion about this light!
It seems an excellent flashlight, despite the UI and the price may be a drawback. :confounded:
But I love those options in colours
Advertised retail price ($89.90) might be considered as reasonable for the Titanium version, but for the Aluminum version, definitely not.
Emitters (as of current choice) should be within $8 (less, if sourced in bigger batches).
I think, driver is also not too complicated, maybe an additional $8-12.
The USB rechargeable battery maybe adds another $6-10.
We have still $60-68 to allocate for flashlight body details/parts…
And, as DavidEF mentioned, the emitters are not special (not one or both of them). They are just ‘plain old’ XP-L.
And IMO, blending different CCT emitters does not make sense, if they are of poor CRI, because the given wavelength intervals, which are already suffering a loss due to uneven emission characteristics, will be just blended to produce an even poorer experience. (XP-L has max. 75CRI emitters for 5000K CCT, max. 80CRI emitters for 4000K CCT, and max. 90CRI for 3000K CCT – the CW emitter (and maybe the NW as well) which is used now, is probably a 70CRI one, as no CRI ratings were specified).
This shiny flashlight body would deserve at least a pair of Nichia 219C emitters (5700K R9050 + 3500K R9050), then blending them would make sense. And for a single AA/14500 light, very few of us would care about the max. output that much (for 14500, 450 lumen per emitter, and 550 lumen when both driven - would be plenty).
So if at least high fidelity / other specialty emitters would have been used, the high price could have been more justified. But as the current status, it is a strong ‘no way’ for me.
Mecarmy is intending to make a new PS14 production that use dual LEDs - Neutral white+UV or Neutral white+Red. Any of your desired
leds combination please email us at support@mecarmy.com, we will let you know when the special version released.