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XPL has dome but XPL-HI does not correct?
I haven’t torn it apart yet but looking closely thru lens I believe the emitter in the M8 I received to be XPL HI LED like TomE posted. It’s seems identical to my D1S ( XPLHI V2 5D 4000-4125KTint NW) in appearance, tint, and intensity.
I haven’t gotten to play with it much yet, but it seems to not get as hot as quickly as my D1S. It’s nice compact thrower. Looking forward to examine it more.

how is the ramp function?

slow from low to high?

Yes that’s correct. XPL-HI is domeless.

In the OP it shows 6 seconds:

Stepless Dimming
● In on status,Press 1 second to activate Stepless Dimming Mode
-From moon to turbo need 6 seconds,release the switch can memorize the brightness

But I would also like someone to confirm this, how many seconds from lowest to highest, and visa-versa.
And also does it blink/flash when it reaches the lowest and/or highest brightness?

In post #30 Tom stated: “The ramping is klunky - not consistent”
But I’m not clear on what he means exactly by that.

Also if possible, please report if the MCPCB is Noctigon, as seen in the photo in post #8.

Yeah I saw Tom review about the ramp too and I’m still holding back buying this light :frowning:

What I can tell so far this is the closest thing to a D1S with 26650, knurling and Stainless bezel, (everything I wish for on the D1S) so I’m totally down with it. I probably won’t use the ramping that much anyway, but at least it has it.

Only thing holding me back now is waiting for the Green color version to surface.

More Pics:

That’s the quick and dirty of it for tonight, it got late on me.

As far as the ramping goes it is slow. It does blink slightly at max.
With the slow ramping perhaps its saving grace is the instant access to lowest from off. Single click.
Instant access to turbo from off. Double click.

More as time allows, I’ll toss a video up of the UI when I get a chance.

Can you measure reflectors width and height please?

No problem. I’ll get some measurements up sometime this weekend as time allows.

EDIT ADDED MEASUREMENTS OF REFLECTOR FOR Cula

The diameter of the reflector at head end at widest part is: 46mm
The diameter at the base of reflector before it steps down to the centering area is: 25mm
The overall length of the reflector from top to bottom is 41mm* If you remove the centering spacer take away another 1mm from that making it 40mm

Hope that helps, if more measurements are needed let me know and I can get them when I can.

Without LiitoKala 50A is no go for me.

Thank you :beer:

What cells have you tried? Any fitment issues? Can you measure the tube ID?

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That would be unfortunate, but cells can vary slightly as can tubes, let’s see what D_Pierre says. I wouldn’t have a problem doing a slight reaming of the tube if necessary. My LK Lii-50A meausre 26.7mm at their widest point.

Battery Tube Measurements:

Thanks for this, and the photo!

Looks like plenty of meat on that tube for a bit of reaming, probably only need about 0.3mm for the LK 50’s

Green version is now listed!!

“Under restocking. It will be available soon”

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THANKS Freeme! …. I assume you made this happen! :+1:

Hopefully the code won’t be expired and will be valid for the green version too.

Hey Freeme

can you ask them to make the ramping faster (about 3 seconds from low to high and turbo/moon access). Will get 2 green if they meet my request. :smiley:

That green one sure looks great. Love the shape and size of this flashlight.
Got me thinking on how to mod this one….
I would replace the driver for sure but also want to keep charging possibility. Is there a way to keep this driver only as a charging board and piggyback another driver on top? Which components should I remove (those which power the Led) and which to leave (to keep the charger function)?

Those are cheap OEM case for flashlight.

Spent sometime with the light. Ramping time will take you 1s-1.5s to reach "High" (~70%) from lowest (visa- versa). However, if you ramp up to Turbo, it will take you rough 6s to ramp down.

I doubt it will happen.

Besides ramping and the shortcuts from OFF, is there a group with regular modes, such as L-M-H ?

Also I don't understand from this (quote in the OP) exactly what is "mode 2" ?

And the "4x clicks/mode 2" mystery continues...

Turbo Momentary? What does this mean exactly?

I think the “Turbo Momentary” is like the “Tactical” setting on the Q4 where the light remains on as long as you hold the button down. Press the button and it’s on turbo. Release it and it’s off. I guess you can signal that way.

Not sure about the other stuff.