Hot wild Soup came
Bad:
only the pill
Good:
original Kan 28 switch
very good anodizing
very good reflector
Even stock glass is not bad either
About pill? It is not machined well, it has retaining ring for driver(so you can’t solder driver directly) and front flat side seems unbalanced(punctured) with nasty middle hole in middle? Terrible :confounded: It can’t be fittted with 20mm mcpcb without dremmeling cause it has les than 19mm id diameter.
T20 brass pill from fasttech does not fit cause it has shorter threads for 1mm. And I would really like that Mitko reply with direct link on what T20 pill will fit to it?
Yes I tried to modd it with old G2 S3 2B on 16mm noctigon and fet driver and all bypassed as it should be.
So I flattened the wires with the iron and that looks ugly but it usable with reflector. If you don’t do the same no freaking chance you’ll get usable beam with 16mm mcpcb and de domed emitter.
Now about temporary results:
I obviously have bad heat transfer because of bad pill but results are higher than 260 kcd for first 5 seconds than of course drastically drop occurs(even to 150kcd or lower) cause I don’t have proper heat transfer or pill now.
I did centering by eye method without centering ring.
But all mentioned is good. Why? There is still room for better centering the pill with Mitko method and larger 26mm mcpcb.
So if you want best performance:
- Arm yourself with nerves cause this ain’t that simple as it looks(especially if you want to go 16or20mm mcpcb route)
- Forget about 16 or 20mm mcpcb when it comes to this light (of course if you can )
- Listen to Mitko’s advice and get yourself 26mm mcpcb (that will save you a lot of trouble)
- Kapton tape is must for this light and yet if you don’t firmly press reflector in a place (i used super glue for reflector) when you will be tightening the bezel it will catch reflector and it will rotate it over solder joints and kapton tape you previously glued on the bottom of reflector and everything else on flashlight go by bye
- I did not used centering ring but very thin one could help.
Did I say that you must get 26mm mcpcb? Yes i did…
Good old school light. I like it!
And for now I dare to say that Djozz got spectacular results.
My prediction for my setup is around 300+kcd with proper modding(better centering and better pill of course) & + 15% more with old xp-g2 s4 2b.