EE X6R Mod: The unholy offspring of my 2 favorite lights (pic heavy)

nice mod.

did it took to long in the process stripping anodize and is the chemical dangerous?

Fantastic work, bud! I'm digging it! :beer:

Very nice. Innovative and great attention to detail.

Great mod, pd! It is using many skills to get to an amazing light!

Awesome build mate! Do you think there would much difference with heat sinking now you took the anodizing of? Wouldn’t mind to take the anodizing of a EE X6.

Great flashlight, I love your builds. Very innovative :+1: and completely beyond my knowledge level.

VERY nice mod!

thanks for sharing :)

It took me a couple hours to get all pieces done, but it is much faster for other people. I’m not sure what I did differently. You don’t want to get lye on your skin, so wear gloves. To be safe, you also want to be sure to only add lye to water, not water to lye.

I am assuming you are referring to emissivity ratings, which is a bit of an argument starter here at BLF. My opinion based on my knowledge of the matter is that those figures and rating are used completely out of context. In short, no I don’t think it makes any reasonable difference.

And your copper mods are completely beyond my skill level. I have a JM20 sitting here that I wish I could make as beautiful as yours.

Look'n Good! You are ahead of me for sure, but really want to do something like this. I got all/most of the parts.Texas_ace tipped me off that Arrow has great pricing on XP-G3's, so just ordered some yesterday, and another bunch today. They got free shipping this month, so only extra fee was NY sales tax, unfortunately...

I ordered these 5700K R3 bin 90+ CRI: https://www.arrow.com/en/products/xpgdwt-u1-0000-00fe2/cree

and these 5000K S5 bin 70 CRI: https://www.arrow.com/en/products/xpgdwt-01-0000-00me3/cree

For like $1.60 each, seems like a pretty good deal.

Hmm I’ll have to check out their site, I haven’t looked at arrow before.

You may already know, but ledsupply always has free shipping under a certain weight. They don’t have the newest emitters, but that’s where I get all my carclo optics and the photo red xp-e’s.

Ok - Arrow's site is a PIA, not organized well at all - can't search by CREE LED model for example. Also they got tons of listings with no stock and some with min 1,000 qty. I tried look'n for XHP50's and XPL's, but it's hard. Arrow Electronics has been around a long time. We've had the reps in at work, and buy from them time to time. They are similar to DigiKey and Mouser.

Ya got that right… PITA.
just spent 45 min on there and reducing the Cree selection. None of the G3 were in my list with obvious filters used. Got frustrated and just searched “XPGDWT” and 281 items showed up none of which were on there before. There is a lack of information on the G3, none have a color temp listed. Guess you need to know what you want before you go to Arrow.

Ohh, I went strictly by the CREE code and the CREE spec. Actually what I did was use the CREE datasheet, copied the P/N of one I was interested in, then searched Arrow for the P/N - that worked ok. Yes, the Arrow listing is pretty poor. They just don't know how to list LED's.

Awesome looking light! I’m loving the red and amber in the tailcap, so I think I’m going to have to steal that idea from you :smiley:

The site sucks, and the incorrect pictures really threw me off at first. They have some really nice emitters listed, but all the good ones are either backordered, 1,000 piece min, or both. Like this one. XP-L HI, 4500k, V2 bin, 75CRI typical, only $4.41/piece. Or this one, XP-L HI, U6 bin, 4000k, 80 CRI, $4.01.

I’ll make a new thread for this discussion, here.

Go ahead and steal it! I basically already stole it from Djozz, but he used yellow in his too.

Soooooo according to my MYUSPS account both packages from LEDDNA and Mtn should be delivered today. Props to mtn, as I just ordered from them Friday, and already being delivered Monday. However, I knew I should have just been more patient :person_facepalming:

So should I use the LEDDNA emitters and hope for slightly better throw from dedomed XP-L’s, or should I use the XP-L HI 5A2’s from Richard and get a guaranteed nice tint?

I ended up using the XP-L HI’s. Wasn’t happy with it, the tint is not like other 5A’s I have. It is very very rosy which I normally like, but it was just too much. So I reflowed the XP-L 3A’s onto the noctigon and did a brief test before going to the gasoline. I’m glad I did test it, because these are definitely not 3A tint, probably more like 4A. So I’ll be leaving the domes on.

what am I missing as far as being able to view the pics related to this post?

You weren’t missing anything, sli.mg decided to delete my images. I re-linked the pics I still have.
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update: This light no longer a Triple, it’s back to the original reflector. I decided I like the original X6R beam profile better. It has always had a nicely defined spot.