u/lojik7

https://youtube.com/shorts/rFu7fcwtcL0

PSA: Ocean waves are a pretty violent environment to try and preserve a lights waterproofing.

There is a lot of pressure and sand being forced into every crevice (as anyone who's ever frolicked in a beach knows).
So I would not try this again.

I could tell the orings were under pressure and moisture was fighting its way in, helped by sand trying to wedge into every crevice whenever heavy water pressure hit the glass. Orings are not meant to withstand pressure like that, so they will compress too easily and eventually let moisture in.

So I have to vehemently NOT recommend anyone using a light in crashing waves unless the light is made specifically for diving purposes.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed the small glimpse of the NovMu on vacation getting a spa treatment and basking in the sun.

P.S.

Going to be posting YouTube videos or at least accompanying them to a post. Reddit video and picture quality is abysmal and ppl miss way too much on color rendering posts.

YouTube isn’t always full res either, but it isn’t 2007 720P TV quality like Reddit is.

This video isn’t the ideal color quality candidate, but still gonna show better on YT than Reddit’s version.

I already added a few more videos to my YT that I’ll be adding to old and new posts going forward.

As an admitted Rosy Tint Snob,

From time to time I look to try out and give interesting & robust low-cri lights/emitters a chance. The idea is that if I don’t like it, I can just give it away to a friend as a gift they’re sure to love. And I can move on from something that wasn’t quite for me after giving it a shot.

So far to date, I have not kept any of these kinds of test purchases, I have always gifted them.

There WERE some SST40 6500K’s I got in an SP36 Pro that blew my mind (back in the day before FFL emitters) that I totally would’ve kept. They felt oddly rosy and clean with some color pop even next to my SW45K 219B’s back then. But I really wanted my friend to get a nice and powerful throwyish light with a fat beam for his new large home & property, so I parted with it for him.

Tho by today’s FFL standards…even the 219B’s look a bit stale & dated, so I’m sure they wouldn’t have cut mustard the same way anymore today.

Which brings me to this SFT60 Surge w/ Lume 10. This is going to be the very first one from all these experimentations that I’m actually going to happily keep and enjoy TF out of. Because it actually does cut enough mustard in this new FFL gorgeous & ultra clean emitter-tint era and reality we’re in.

It’s the first one I can rightfully say I genuinely recommend. And I won’t just tolerate it either, I can actually enjoy it for what it is.

My most recent experiment before this had me trying out the SFT42R Surge. And I was just not all-around as impressed as I hoped. I’m sure with the Lume 10 the SFT42’s will perform even better than with the Lume 1 driver I saw it with.

Although the SFT42’s were still relatively clean compared to other 6500K’s, the tint still felt a bit rough and directly fell short of the cleanliness of the FFL505A 6500K’s tint (which are the best 6500K emitter I’ve seen to date).

Which brings me to my next point. The SFT60 is actually damn near as clean-tinted as my FFL505A 6500K Surge. At first quick glance it was a bit hard to tell them apart against a wall. You can tell if you pay attention, but that alone is still impressive enough for being low-CRI SFT60’s.

Now color rendering is where the two are not in the same league because the FFL was just a far richer & color experience, but it was by a relatively tolerable amount. The tint being so damn clean helps a ton because a bad tint is what usually turns ppl like me off from these kinds of power emitters. But I can’t use the tint argument against these SFT60’s. I can use color rendering against it, but not tint, and especially not at max output as it just pops super white and bright.

You should not expect a wide-ranging color pop from the SFT60’s. But you can expect one of the cleaner & whiter 6500K tints around.

I am actually as happy with it as I am with my two other rosy E07’s that arrived, for different reasons, but I’m still ecstatic to have it.

I even wish I got it in Copper since I’m keeping it now. May even consider selling it just to swap it for a copper version.

Bottom line is it’s really bright and feels so white.

This is the light that finally paid off all the testing I did of all those other low-CRI emitters through the years.

It’s bright-bright, and it looks white-white, so it’s a true win-win.

Last thing I want to comment on is the price. It is not a cheap configuration. But I can honestly say that I can actually feel and see what the extra cost bought me, which is a pretty great feeling.

Now I do know ppl may be able to get these emitters from other brands, but 4 of these being paired in such a small but very plush and feature rich light with a killer beam that can actually be carried around is it’s own separate reward. And that’s on top of having the best drivers, efficiency and UI’s in the game.

This light feels like if Nightwatch & Fireflies did a collab. The output is superb, but so is the light as well as the tint. So I guess it’s actually more like a win-win-win.

You can see in the photo with the tree’s and grass area that the SFT60 produces magnitudes more light than the FFL505A version of itself.

Anyway, as odd as it feels to say being a rosy fanatic…I very highly recommend this fantastical combo.

I will do another video post to highlight and talk more in-depth about the color rendering differences that can be expected. But even without getting into all that, this thing is bad ass and truly excites the senses.

This post is a tip of the cap to this post by u/Calmlikea3omb

https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/s/mhXWeZPxuk

https://www.firefly-outdoor.com/products/e12-eclipse

For this battery-powered project I'm using MicroPython on a XIAO ESP32-S3 board, with a WS2812 LED strip. Multiple lamps can be synchronized together thanks to ESP-NOW.

Source code: https://codeberg.org/LAMPy/LAMPy

Hardware write-up: https://lampy.codeberg.page/

Let me know what you think!

Figured I’d share these since they don’t get seen much from the street. Plus cars are usually blocking them too.

I pulled up and was lucky no one was there, so I took advantage.

*Last shot is their shop mural, not an entry.