I asked that becasue you know how specs are in general, they need to be tested. Even though the 7135 "35" chips have been proved until now, these are new and not proven yet.
2A it's pretty low so far. Hopefully someone mounts it in a flashlight and we'll get a "in the field" reading of the current.
That can be done, the resulting drive current will be 2280 - 380 = 1900 mA. I think I would choose the 1520 mA type as it is not a very easy task to remove a chip if you have not tried it before and the benefit of driving the XPE that hard is little. It can be done thougt with a heat gun with a small nose and pliers or with a medium big soldering iron, but it is easy to overdo the heating.
I got the 2280 mAh version today and just finished a dropin. Mine are marked 38K and I tested the dropin on high and got 2.274 A. So good news there.
The bad news is that the low mode is just two damn low. These needed to keep the low of the 105c (60-80mA) and then have the new moonlight mode (6-7 mA on this 2280 version) as an option instead of having 4 disco modes. So close and yet so far. I'm glad I have a reserve of 105c's.
Does this fit the "famous" UF-980L? (17mm?) Now that i have so many throwers, i'd like to give that light a new lease of life. The looks and built is pretty decent, but then the PWM turns me off.
I'll see if it fits the Yezl big head XM-L floody as well. That light is decent, and is a XM-L flooder, has a decent low but the 90Hz PWM renders it somewhat unusable.
Any idea on the lumens of the low low? I am waiting for the 3040 to arive. I was worried about the low low being too high. Now I'm really worried it's too low. Would it be lower than a quark low?
The 105c gives me 2.8 and this one gives 2.91 with a 4.05V Rev.Jim. The low is a really nice single lumen. To me, the leads were easier to solder than on the 105c. Just a bit more room. I went for three mode, LMH with no memory. I really like this driver a lot with all the different setup choices.