gurdygurds
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The E01 at Fenix Store shows up as DISCONTINUED. Discuss....
Today I made a phone call to Fenix Netherlands. According to the nice lady I spoke to, the official status in the system is "DISCONTINUED", since autumn 2018. Fenix Netherlands could no longer order new supplies of the E01.
I'm mostly joking around, but the discontinued for certain colors on Fenix Store peaked my interest. Like I said earlier in this thread, if Fenix decides to update the E01 I'm curious to see what they do with it. We can always stock up on the current iteration if need be. Plus you can't kill em' so you'd have to lose a bunch of E01s in order to go without.
This may be the 5th horseman of the apocalypse...
we knew it was coming
Im amazed it has lasted this long and I love the light. its with me every day . but even those who have no interest or knowledge of flashights have started to comment negatively on my E01s. the low output and horrible tint they cant understand why I waste my time with it and then whip out their lights and blow my little E01 away. But it doesn't bother me. They just don't get it .
Sorry, but I've never been one for "improvements" or "updates" to a winning design. With one exception in terms of gear (The current version of the Kelty Coyote 80) I've seen one excellent product after another "improved" into being far less useful than it was.
As far as the current E01 goes, it doesn't have much competition. Last thing we need is just another lumens monster in as tiny a compact package as possible, with even worse; a rechargeable battery that will possibly be dead when you need it. What will Fenix do with the E01.... likely screw it up in some way shape or form. It's not perfect, but it darn sure is close to being that for the type of tasks it was designed to tackle.
(Heck, the only reasons why the Coyote 80 was a genuine improvement over the previous design is that Kelty added two glaring omissions to the pack that the competition already had. A dedicated sleeping bag compartment on the bottom, and a large front flap to place wet clothes to dry. That's pretty much it. The E01 has no glaring omissions that need to be corrected.)
Im amazed it has lasted this long and I love the light. its with me every day . but even those who have no interest or knowledge of flashights have started to comment negatively on my E01s. the low output and horrible tint they cant understand why I waste my time with it and then whip out their lights and blow my little E01 away. But it doesn't bother me. They just don't get it .
What if they don't "ruin it"? What if Fenix improves runtime and beam pattern and it's still bombproof and lovely? You wouldn't be into that "improvement"? What if they give it the Kelty Coyote 80 treatment?