I received the other part of my IO order today . . .
Hank's new drop-ins all pull a rock steady 3 amps on high. The Cyclone (U2/1B) pulls 2.80 and is almost as bright as the real McCoy and the Wildfire is the current new cool in Foy's hand. It has the lowest firefly mode I have ever seen. Won't even move a digit on my lame DMM. Pulls 0.00. You can put the bezel right against your eye socket and stare at the emitter.
Those drop-ins come with a strange stick-on heat wrap.
Reviews to come.
Foy
p.s.
The rendition of these drop-ins are making me the tint snob I used to make fun of.
It's a quality piece for sure. Not quite as bright as the UF XM-L but man, do I love the neutral tint. I must be a redneck . . . taking this long to discover the value of tint.
I'm really interested in the wildfire and can't wait for the review.It's almost an exact clone of the thrunite t30,been on the fence about this one for awhile.
Actually pretty dang good. As much as I love the UF XM-L drop-in, every one of mine has significant oscillation on medium and low. Foy's low rent method for testing PWM is to shine a light at a certain angle in front of a digital camera. Bad PWM will show up as wide bands, spaced far apart. The UF XM-L has thick bands with razor sharp edges of definition. Not so bad that it's an issue to the naked eye but . . .
With these neutral T6s, the lines are thin, close together and smooth in between. On low and medium they almost run together which, is kinda what you want. On high they run together so much that you can barely notice any PWM. I'm impressed.
I can't get that wrap stuff to fit inside an L2P, however. It's a little thick.
What threw me is the heading on IO's site says U2. The only one that's U2 is the 1B cool white. (.99 extra) I wonder if that 7B is as yellow as the WW I got from Manafont a while back? The one I have is awful.
I cut it short and then stretched around the drop in, then the fiddly bit was holding it tight whilst getting it assembled, I figured better than nothing but I don't know if it will work better than a good foil wrap...
Thats an awesome piece of engineering there. Love how it still fits in to the flashlight category when you have an illuminated bass reflex port! I guess it beats the mp3 radio flashlight things on DX for sound quality but DX still beats you on price ;)
I know which I would prefer though!
Oh and I like how its used a normal apple IR dock and just installed that into the box. its a neat way of doing it, and would work really well too.
I have a Fenix E01 and I just like it better than the Nitecore T0. They are both cheap, dim, keychain lights but I have a thing for blue lights and knives so I just had to get on when they were on sale.
The main appeal to lights like these is the run time and durability. Just put it on your keychain and it's there when you need it.