I’m not exactly sure, but I did just get a quad XP-L drop in with a nice tail switch from modder Vinh, and now waiting for my Solarforce host to arrive tomorrow. Looking forward to testing lumens once I get this light setup.
For the price… maybe the Astrolux S41 4x xp-g2 and it’s Manker equivalent. $40. all in.
You’re right. It’s probably the better of the two. I read somewhere about the tint of XP-g3 being like off, and then a couple negative tidbits and I got dismissive. Actually, that’s just what happens when you base assumptions on small amounts of information. Thanks for the correction. I still have yet to get my hands on any XP-G3 light.
U have a Rochester as31 modded by Tome pumping out over 1700+lumens with a xml2-u4 emitter I don’t remember the lux reading off the top of my head but estimated a throw in the neighborhood of 400 meters.
Key words? XP-G3 and XP-L/XP-L2 should be brighter, but you haven’t personally seen that yet?
I love that we’re building single 18650 lights that outperform modded SRK’s from a few years ago. We used to get excited about an honest 3000 lumens in a soda can light, and now we can fit that in a pocket.
XP-G3 doesn’t make a nice beam, even under optics. Nichia 219C has a low Vf, allows for a great pull and output. Haven’t really gotten enough of the XP-L W2 emitters on hand at one time to find out what it’d do in a quad, except for in my 18350 Ti/Cu Quad and there they didn’t fare so well, not enough cell to provide for em.
I’ve done a Quad XHP-50 that made over 7000 lumens, maybe more, don’t remember exactly, what I DO remember is that it heated up the X6 in about 20 seconds to the point of burn level. I put 3 XHP-70’s in a BTU Shocker for up to nearly 15,000 lumens on a pair of 18650’s. 3 PF’s took it to about 20,000 lumens but it was killing traces on the spring pcb. I beefed up the pcb but never tried it again after that.
I have more of the XP-L W2 1D on the way from AlliExpress, never got the situation with Cutter resolved, they quit talking to me. So I’ve got V6 1A’s where I ordered W2 2B’s. (W2’s are XP-L2 with the smaller dome)
Short bursts are perfect for me. It’s enough to blast through the coolant to see if a tool is still there, or to see if that critter is a skunk or not. It may not be able to stay on as long as a big light, but like cameras, the best one is what you have. It’s rare when I’m carrying one of my big lights, but I almost always have a 1x18650 light in my pocket.
Yup, I suspect that the way most folks use these hot rod lights. I know that’s how I use them with the majority of my shining pleasure being at the lower output levels. I even use the L6 that way.
Normal use is like that, day to day, but on Thursday night I blast away for 10 - 15 minutes on my weekly walk to the road with the trash can. “Fire in the HOLE!”
Well i know Tom E went with an xml2 u4 over a xplhi or xplv6 becuase it has more out put at the emitter and it is really up by here as far as throw Lost up to my modded maxtoch sniper as far as throw if that counts for anything.
For absolute small emitter output, the XP-L W2 2B in a Convoy C8 is pretty ridiculous at some 2024 lumens. This is single cell, single emitter.
The XP-L and XM-L2 use the same die, sitting on a different substrate, so they are very similar in output. There have been some small changes and as such the XP-L can sometimes take more current but that is not in and of itself always the best path to the most lumens.
Nice entertaining the possibilities of the XP-L2, acquiring the emitters is not as easy as all that at this time.