Wurkkos TS10

“Welcome back to the Flashlight hobby. Here's some hopefully useful compressed information. Much of this is my *opinion* rather than solid fact. Please bear that in mind. - The Discord server has taken flight with a bunch of users and pleasant, regular interactions. It is a good source of nerdery. - The TS10 is still super popular. Since you left, a few new colours came out, which also got upgraded with multi-coloured LEDs showing status. Rumour has it the TS10 is EOL, let's see what Wurkkos do. - The TD01C - a lovely, powerful TIR-encrusted thrower was quite popular eighteen months ago (and came out in a lovely warm version too) - Two "new" form factors have seen significant movement since you left. The clip light (in which a thrower and a flooder are combined into a handy clip-on format) and the chocolate bar light - combining a laser, UV, flood, trick LED and regular forward facing LED. Several companies are doing these. Both have non-user replaceable batteries. - Hank has released a handful of new lights (which are well covered by other comments in this thread), in addition to new aesthetic options of black and brass bezels. The traditional plastic "boot" buttons also now have a fancy metal version - Simon at Convoy has released the wildly popular T6 - a proper little "pocket rocket" amongst a few other designs, and increasing options in Brass, Copper and Titanium. After a series of disagreements around the financial viability of working on the platform, Simon decided to migrate his business from Ali to his own website, which has performed well. Some users reported some malfeasance in credit card operation when purchasing items from him (not his fault, appears to be an intermediary issue) - so PayPal is def. preferred there. - Fake shipping numbers, fraudulent shippers, fakes and business malpractice continue to plague the hobby. Recently shipping scams where a 3rd party shipping company ships an item using "fake postage" have hit several members on this subreddit. - Reylight continues to do a famine/feast approach to business, with much of his stock not available through the year, doing roughly quarterly "drops" of his popular LANApple, Pineapple and other lights. I very much enjoy his work. He does do some silly stuff in mokume and "hand carved" varieties, but his base offering is exquisite. - Bluetooth connectivity has not yet penetrated the flashlight world with any significance. I note a few predictions on the Flashlight Discord server that this would be a thing at some point, given the complexity of Anduril operation - Speaking of Anduril, development of the platform appears to be slower than previously, possibly due to the ill-health of its maintainer. We wish them well, of course. - I am not aware of any relevance or encroachment of AI on the flashlight hobby Welcome back.”