I don’t mind that led tint (What tint is it???), I do wish to have something a little bit cooler (Q8 tint or better) BUT I rather have the light now and can definitely wait for better LED / Tints to become available, I am still considering to mod it to a XHP-70.2 anyway, so the tint is a non issue with me… Just my $0.02
I was also wondering, do the battery carriers and tubes support a bigger diameter battery like a 20700 for example, it would only be about 2 more mm in bore size and would be a bit more future proof…
I agree, the real world results surprised me, it had so much less beam scatter. The light saber effect was vastly improved (bad for looking like a Jedi, good for seeing long range).
I like the 4000K for Giggles, I modded all my throwers to 4000K 5D several years ago from the original cool white emitters. Definitely improved contrast and depth perception as well as reducing light scattering from the blue wavelength.
I tried to measure the CD but my readings are never very good due to the city and the high humidity. They appeare to be around ~4% higher then my V1 numbers but they can vary a lot day to day depending on the conditions.
I highly doubt it, only the blue wavelengths are being heavily scattered, the warmer wavelengths are almost unaffected it seems. That would be due to the tint, the reflector would have little effect on that.
Now the old reflector did seem to have a wider corona then the new reflector and that could be improved here but if you look at the beamshots you can see that even the old reflector did not get a lot of scatter from the corona, most of it was from the collimated beam, just like the new one.
If anything the more concentrated beam should make the scatter from the beam worse (aka, it glow brighter in the pictures) but the opposite is what is happening.
I have seen this before with other lights as well, going to warmer tint always nets me better long range performance by a significant margin.
IMHO, 4000K is the perfect color temperature for this exceptional light. It’s very pleasant to the human eye and it’ll add to the uniqueness of this thrower. :+1: :+1:
My LEMAX LX70 had 4250K and I absolutely loved it.