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I have to ask the inevitable tint question. Is it the same binned led in the LS20 or the LS27 ?
I'll post some information about the Arc variations soon. I plan on 3 variations, the Ti-DS, Ti-GS and the Ti-kit. All of them have the same 6al-4v housing and 1mm sapphire, the difference is in the LED.
You guys have been asking for a AAA titanium flashlight for a good number of years. In fact, a thread gets started in the Arc forum from time to time (there's one there now in fact). I have wanted a Titanium AAA, but with the high cost, I didn't think they would sell very well.
The amount of times I have said "no" to this request, you would think I didn't like titanium. But I designed my wife and I's rings out of the same bar of 64 and the new Arc6 has a Ti bezel. Awesome material, very expensive to machine.
Don and I have talked about this from time to time. Recently he asked me if I would go in on a production run with him. This time I finally said yes.
This production lot is small (only ~125 units) and it meant to judge the demand for a light like this. Don will be assembling about 75 units with the 3mm DS led and I will be assembling about ~50 units with the DS and GS LED.
In the even that these do sell well, Arc has the option to manufacture the product as a regular production item. We might take the machining in house (we already machine another titanium part on our cnc machines).
peter