Re: 1?? Mcd Xenon Flashlight Project - BFF
What is the length and weight of the light?
Mine was already difficult to handle and it was only 4" long and 5kg
It's 52 cm long or 20" and comes in at around 11 kg. Haven't put the light on the scale yet as i'm still adding small parts (and they all add up...) so the weight can change a little before I'm done. So yeah, there is a reason I have a padded shoulder strap for this
In retrospect, with a few small design changes from the beginning, I could certainly have made it just below 10Kg. And with a very different battery design, I could have dropped it all the way down to around 7 kilo, with a much shorter tube, and even more runtime as a bonus. But as Alrom says, it doesn't really matter that much, it's all about the mindset. People carry luggage around much heavier than this. One could also argue that anything over 500 gram is too heavy for a flashlight. But then you have to put different lights in different category. This one has for instance one epic candela to weight ratio :naughty: