As you can see I have a few A20's , and quite simply , I think its the best 16340 host for doing mods ...
If you look at the beams , the bottom row is my latest A20 XM-L with a 1.4A 3 mode driver , and the top row of beams is a L2T with the same driver emitter combo ...
The only difference is that the A20 is mostly spill , it lacks the hotspot as it melds with the spill at any distance ..
Frankly I find this simply beautiful , it makes it so easy to see everything , and the output levels are really nice ..
Ive put of building a 1.4A version for some time , but with school done its time to catch up on some projects ...
On :
High - 1.41A - 450L
Medium - 0.44A - 145L
Low - 0.07 - 24L
This was with a rather old now AW16340
If you want to build one , you will need a XM-L on a 14mm Base [ or smaller ] . Mine come from cutter ...
The driver : http://www.kaidomain.com/product/details.S020075 This is the new one ,
http://www.kaidomain.com/product/details.S009959 and this is the one I used for my mod [ I like this one ]
http://www.kaidomain.com/category.226 You can check out the drivers @ KD following this link ..
Still amazes me , the A20 is so unrecognised as a mod host ...
The first few I did were in SSC P7 , but the SSC P7 was such a sensitive emitter to vF , and if you got one with higher vF it simply performed poorly with a 4.2v set up , a very disappointing emitter I must say , thank goodness for the XM-L , it really is a moders delight .