TomE, I don’t know why it seems I’m rubbing you the wrong way and if I did, I apologize. I’m not challenging you, Hank, Vinh, nor anyone. I’m trying to clarify where there are differences, both in my understanding, and among greater BLF. I’m sorry if my familiarity and opinion that another naming convention is/was more popular seems confrontational.
Personally, I have no problem remembering or typing out full Osram model numbers. Shorthand is merely a convenience. If it starts to cause more confusion that the longform, then it’s not worth it IMO.
id30209, while I have personal feelings that seem to reflect yours about the parties we are discussing, I think it’s fair to acknowledge that in the early days of 4040 white flats, Vinh was one of the exclusive sources of these emitters and lights equipped with them. Not until the K1/KR1 was there any whisper of these emitters in Hanks main thread. In fact, searching that thread for either w1.1 or w2.1 only returns one post by SKV89 from May 2020. I can trace back the W1.1 on CPF/Vinh as far as August 2019.
Searching all of BLF for “w2.2” only yields a handful of hits besides here. All are from Sept/Oct 2020 except one by Agro which may have been a typo as he changed it to w2.1 at some point (original frozen in time by the quote in the following post) Ironically here, I was one of the few to ever write w.2.2 back in Sept 2020 , and I’d like to say it was a error as well that got away from me, but I used that” two times”:Lume1-FW3X: Constant Current Buck-Boost & FET Driver with Anduril1/2 + RGB Aux - #368 by JaredM in that thread, albeit only 11hrs apart.
Again, I’m really, honestly not trying to ruffle feathers. I’ve added to the confusion myself as I just pointed out in the previous paragraph. id30209 also has acknowledged the W2.1= Boost HX in the Convoy thread not too long ago. Now that I’ve spent a bit of time playing etymologist, it’s fair for me to say there isn’t a widely accepted standard on BLF and we all can get confused by these alpha numerics at times.
Going forward, I’m probably going to stick to the full names of these emitters.
Cheers everyone!