Okay guys the MT09R has arrived and I have so far just been taking output readings, I might be able to get a distance measurement inside the house but I would trust the results better outside so a little longer.
I am not going to tear the light down at least until all testing is complete.
Here is the one thing I can promise you with out any doubt.
After taking out measurements 5 or 6 times then checking the calibrations of everything and checking again the lowest reading I got in Turbo mode is 15136 lumen and the best was the last one and that is after draining the cells a fair amount and it came in at 16297.
So anyone that has any concerns about the light hitting the claimed output. Not only did it make the 15k promised it has gone past it.
IT will be dark in a couple of hours and very very cold for where I live.
I will do a brief written review and a video review with beam shots. I will try to find something here to compare the output and distance. Not going to be easy but either way you will get to see all that I am able to show you..
I can tell you thia for sure. Somehow it had been left in mode 6 when I got it. I'm getto ng ready to turn it on and chek out the ramping and instead I got this massive amout of light that lit up my entire garage (that is my shop). Almost like daylight.
It is extremely bright. I am past ready for the sun to go down lol.
I wanted to badly. The only place in the U.S I could find any and get them here quick was Mtn electronics at a it over 8 bucks a cell... I passed on that.
Terry, thanks for doing this. Would you be able to check whether there’s any step-down in the maximum output, and if so, whether the step-down is based on time or temperature? (for both the 70.2 and 35 HI models) Thanks!
Lol I can get them and should have planned ahead...
The 35 high version will be coming soon. I would like to have some for the side by side testing. Not sure if I can get them here that fast. And 8 bucks a cell is out...
So the cells were fairly drained due to previous turbo output measurements, and that’s when you got the max output of 16297 lumen? So you got this figure without charging the cells in between? So in that case the light is not FET driven (that’s what I thought initially)?
Texas Avenger pretty much means FET drive to me. But then again, I’m certainly not too familiar with driver designs. Battery configuration is 2S2P, so with three 6V emitters (70.2) in parallel you can have a FET drive. We’ll see. Thanks for asking!