Probably the T20 pill that takes a 20mm star is problematic as the reflector still touches the pads. If it had a flat emitter surface then a 26mm mcpcb could be used, this would put the contacts outside the reflector base and allow a deeper set of reflector onto emitter for proper focus.
I’ll sure report my results when they come with slow boat from China.
The best single cell reflector thrower I have is lumapower with turboforce head and it is also throws around 350 but with s42b.
Mitkos thrower(I’ll call it that ) seems to have even wider reflector so I am very optimistic.
Solder filling the gap on brass pill should be easy job? Even for direct soldering to pill(if someone wants) of big 26mm mcpcb?
Wow, you guy’s are getting sweet throw numbers from such a cheap light. I remember seeing the OP but never came back until djozz showed his light in the ‘what did you mod today’ thread. Still not sure I’ll buy one though.
LOL, BLF minds think alike, was looking for that board as well. The only seller that has the Maxtoch boards a bit cheaper ($3) is Banggood, and they are out of the 26mm XP version.
That is fairly cheap source for USA citizens. But unfortunately Europe does not have that kind of vendor. So we depend on slow boat from China.
But I also know that Mitko has incredible knowledge in finding electrical stuff for cheap probably because this is part of his daily job and he for example managed to find old school XP-G2 S4 2C emitters and shared the link. BTW Mitko did you spend them all already? I managed to get couple of them and than when I found that they are good old ones and when I wanted to order more they disappeared.
Btw S42C is same in performance like S32B but tint would not be everyone choice. It was really something magical in performance of old S42B that disappeared into oblivion.
I checked in my stache and I do have 4 S42B that I bought from Richard ages ago. Still in the little baggie and marked as he marks them…. still in the tape. So those 4 are confirmed, I’ll just have to find out what was in my Meteor and see if I can find those. I used to use 2B in virtually all my triples before the XP-L HI came out so who knows what I have around here.