Re: McLuxIII-T (titanium) Limited Sale
Hi guys,
Well I am frankly surprised at how quickly these have been requested! I now have orders for units that can't be completed until I get in more converters which will be in Jan but I do not have a firm date yet. In fact, there are now 3 "slots" remaining and then that will be that; no more. If there are any who back out from their requests, I will make any straglers available when I can actually build these lights. As it stands, the list has room for three more folks.
Lunarmodule,
I understand your concerns and reservations. In regards to the joker, what can I say? Thank you Lumileds for lame QC and letting a bunch of new parts enter into the production line which are dimensionally off!
As I stated, there are McR-20-J reflectors now on order and with these, anyone can swap out an original McR-20 in a light with a joker and get the same beam distribution as with a non joker.
In regards to the thermal issue, I have stayed away from Ti for a few years now due to presumed thermal problems but after doing some thermal tests and especially when i started doing some tests with lights running in ambient air and water of the same temp, the results caused me to reconsider all that I had assumed!! More and more, I am begining to get a feel for the relative differences in these lights and how the actual function and effect is not necessarily explained or clear from posted and reported numbers!! The lights submerged in water had significant and measurable reductions in their runtimes due to lower operating temps of the batteries. The surface temps of the lights were basically at ambient due to the water relieving the thermal build up. Water has pretty bad thermal conductivity when compared to metals! I think Ti is 7 ore is it 14 times more conductive than water? :thinking: We all know that our hands will wick away heat from lights that would be a problem if we left the light free standing in air. I could be way off base here but I get the feeling that air is the real bottle neck in the flow of heat away from these lights and with reasonable drive levels, a good thermal path to a Ti shell may be more than adequate and in fact there are some aluminum lights that have weaker thermal paths from the LED to the light surface which are likely harder on the LED than a more resistive shell! :shrug:
In terms of weight, I don't have a stock PD to compare but I just weighed a T with clip and tab compared to an Al PD that also has Ti bezel ring and tab and the difference was a 10% reduction in weight of the Ti light. The Ti is heavier than Al but the T does not have the brass piston which adds weight. On my scale, the PD was 3.3 oz and the T was 3 oz. Both had batteries and the tab mounted on the clip.
The price of these may well dictate that they are shelf queens for many of you. I understand this and feel fortunate that I don't have to concern myself with this issue since I have a couple spares. Of all the lights I own, this one is the one I am most comfortable using and abusing! Heck, now that I have found a shop that will do the machining on Ti that I can't, I don't think I will go back to Al for any of my personal EDC lights! I like Ti!!! Plain and simple!! :nana: I have a crude pocket pen that I made over 10 years ago out of Ti and it has a space pen refill in it. This pen has some random scratches on it but it looks and functions as well today as it did a week after I made it. Yes, the surface finish has lost that show room shine but man, it doesn't hold a candle to the wear and tear and aging I glimpse in the mirror! :green:
Lastly, the 27LT. Yeah, I was hoping that these would have been out in population before now! Unfortunately, a change in plan on the driver and backlogs from Wayne's CM have left me holding all but the brains for these lights in hand and waiting. I have plenty U bin LED's for the 27LT's and the joker is wild with this program as well! At present, I have McR-27L reflectors to mate with the joker LED's but I also have McR-27L-J reflectors on order. I expect the "-J" reflectors to arrive at the end of Jan so it looks like I will be building some 27LT's with options in Feb before I take my break from here. :shrug:
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Here's a straggler, or last on the bus. Sending Email.
Looks like i`m too late, email sent anyway:candle:
