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1- The Fenix LOP series are ’fingertip’ sized keychain pocket flashlight that pays cursory homage in its form-factor to a well known keychain flashlight – the MAG Solitaire. The Fenix LOP uses a 1Watt Luxeon LED powered by a single AAA cell battery. The Fenix LOP is a mass produced personal tool that exudes high quality fabrication in a production flashlight.
2- The light is a radially symmetrical cylinder with only a bilaterally symmetrical tailpiece- differentiated from the head by a unique keyring terminal attachment approach.
3- Though minuscule, the Fenix LOP compensates for its diminutive size and differentiates it from the Solitaire profile, by providing subtle yet noticeable variations between surface treatmet at strategic regions.
4- The Fenix LOP is a two or three fingertip light- ideal for situations where the maximum output combined with the smallest and lightest form factor are essential. This makes it useful for individuals of all hand sizes and in situations where compactness is the key usability criterion.
5- All sections are crafted with precision and fit together very precisely with an extremely smooth threading action. One notices from taking the Fenix LOP apart that it is a tool made with high precision CNC engineering.
6- There is no 'play' or rattle anywhere in the Fenix LOP. A single 'O' ring seals the junctions between sections and provides, a snug fit and a seal against the elements- especially water. An additional 'O' ring seal prevents water from entering the bezel through the front lens.

1- Stowage- None Applicable – keyring hole in tailcap.
2-Basic activation- in normal use, light emits from the front of the flashlight when activation occurs through a full clockwise turning of the fore-end against the rear-section. There is no follow-through before turning stops. reversing the process effects de-activation.
3- A single 'O' ring protects the battery compartment from the environment . Contact pressure with the battery is furnished by a coiled spring in the tailpiece.

1-The Fenix LOP’s On/Off functionality is standard and fundamentally as simple to activate as any of several flashlights of its genre. As such, its cognitive usage model is mostly familiar to people with prior experience with the MAG Solitaire while the Fenix LOP has the added convenience of a single ‘focus’ setting – a fact that discourages constant adjustment and re-adjustment.
2- An extraordinary usability characteristic of the Fenix LOP- is the fact that it produces a very wide and relatively bright beam for its tiny size- making it suitable for near distance navigation in addition to general searching
3- We didn’t perform physical tests but judged that the lack of knurling would not bee too great an issue in preventing slippage and loss in most situations, even with wet or gloved hands. A natural grip is formed by the flat milling of the hexagonal body section
4- The Fenix LOP is a light that can be carried by itself, on a lanyard or on a keychain. As such, this it highly versatile for many end-users with varied preferences for stowage. As is often the case with keychain lights, the keychain itself-with its attached keys are most of the ‘handle’ while the light may only be partly supported by the user’s hand. The great advantage of the Fenix LOP is that it can be used instead bulkier lights to give a premium quality of illumination.

The Fenix LOP scored Maximum Distance for Object Identification or MDOI at 40 feet -more than adequate for general searching or navigation in an emergency- though not really sufficient in tasks with which larger and more powerful lights are typically associated -such as tactical or emergencies of long durations or covering a wide field.

ABOVE,Left- Upright view of LOP as compared to TnC Keylux AAA

ABOVE, Right Head-on view of LOP as compared to TnC Keylux AAA (Note: concentric circles in LOP reflector)

Footnotes:

(*1) Medium Men's glove size- Also, a Standardized Flashlight Hand Size Metric (SFHSM)

		Small A-B = 4.5" or Shorter
		Medium A-B = 4.5"-5"
		Large A-B = 5"-6"
		X-Large A-B = 6" and Longer

(*2) Maximum Distance for Object Identification (MDOI). The maximum distance that a person without the aid of magnification-can with normal or corrected vision, under a given ambient level of light, identify an object of known size, and clearly distinguish it from its surroundings. We have tentatively identified the following scenarios for such measures:

• A single average sized person/body identification scenario
  • Urban (city, inside buildings, dark alley, lit streets)
  • Rural (countryside,farm residential backyard)
  • Environmental (dessert, woods, wetlands, over water)
  • Natural & manmade disaster (fire, flood/mudslide,earthquake, hurricane /tornado,bombing scene, collapsed structure etc)
• Small Inanimate Object (smaller than a shoe-box)
• Medium Inanimate Object (Black Plastic 33 Gallon (124Litre) Garbage Bag stuffed with a big sleeping bag)

(*3) Usability testing results - in progress.

(*5) Context Inclusive Illumination Window (CIIW) as compared with a Context Exclusive Illumination Window (CEIW) .

• CIIW describes a subject illumination paradigm wherein the illumination target is the focus of the beam's brightest disc or 'Hotspot' and peripheral objects to the target are more dimly illuminated in a larger disc that surrounds the focus or hotspot. This outer region is also referred to as a corona or penumbra.
• CEIW describes a subject illumination paradigm wherein the illumination target is the focus of the beam's brightest disc or 'Hotspot' and peripheral objects to the target are not sufficiently illuminated to be easily discernable at the periphery of subject beam's focus or hotspot.

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