You guys are wrong or maybe not doing it righ. Let me present you my observation.
Haikelite mt09r xhp70.2 CW. Use infrared temp to get the reading next to the switch.
All are in fahrenheit… yes. This light have an automatic step down.
I turn on light to high mode.
Initial temp. 63 fahrenheit
1 min. 80
2 min, 93.5
3 min. 104
4 min. 110.5
5 min. 111
6 min. 111
7 min. 112.5
8 min. 113.5
9 min. 115.5
10 min. 115.5
I could feel step down after 3 min., slow shift. My eyes wouldnt notice. This light is not hot… handle was 93. After 10 minutes, i double click. Then it go back go bright high mode.
Conclusion. My light have authmatic thermal step down.
I don’t quite understand. If there was a step-down after 3 minute as you say, why isn’t that recorded in your minutes/temp? Am I missing something? Thanks.
Newlumen, I think you are right. I think I just don’t notice the stepdown because the eye is not reliable for lumen measurements. Also mine gets pretty darn hot under extended use on max brightness but not dangerously hot like some people report here. I guess it may have some form of thermal protection. If that’s the case, then that makes this light even more impressive considering how much better it can maintain useable high output compared to other lights with thermal regulation.
I said i feel like the light step down after 3 minutes. My eyes couldnt tell. It was slowly step down… i didnt see any flicks while the light step down…
I will do 10 minutes high test again on monday night using fully charged 18650, and i will also record lux number as well…
I know my light have thermal protection, because temp are 115.5 fahrenheit…
I have used some of my other similarly equipped lights as a photography source for up to an hour. I don't run them in turbo mode as I don't want them changing or doing radical step downs while I'm shooting, so I usually select the level below maximum/turbo. I've never bothered to measure how hot they got as I was always comfortable grabbing them when it was time to switch them off.
Not so with my XHP35 MT09R. I set it on the the 4th step in Group 5 (the one below Maximum/Turbo) when doing a battery test. and it hit 151° F (66.1° C) after 20 minutes (measured with an accurate Fluke IR thermometer with emissivity set properly). That's certainly above the stated 55° C thermal regulation spec, and in the realm of burned skin and decreased Li-ion battery longevity.
I haven't run/tested mine on Turbo for any extended period of time because that's generally not the way I use my lights.
Does thermal regulation possibly only work on the maximum (Turbo) setting? Or only on (some) XHP70.2 MT09Rs?
So here is my conclusion. Both version of mt09r will step down after 2 minutes from the high, and maintain at the medium mode for long period of time.,
I have an MF01 being shipped to Lexel to swap out the driver for the NarsilM. How do you like it? How does it compare with the MT09R? I read the lumens on the 219C version is 12k+ or more.
Same with my light, after 2 min i can also feel it must be around 65c or more then i ofc step down to lowest or so, but its weird if some lights has it and some not ?
I’ve had a problem with thermal regulation on my MT02. The light worked fine for a while (normal use outside), and I can feel thermal step down working, because the light would slightly reduce in temperature. The problem was that LVP would kick in too early at around 3.7V. I contacted Banggood and they asked me to do a runtime test. So while I was doing the runtime test, I checked the light after a while and it was blistering hot and the emitter was fried.
So sometimes thermal management worked, and at one point it didn’t.
Yeah i like it a lot, i think my MF01 does make a real 12K lumens now with Lexel driver. I think NarsilM in this light is perfect since you can use the wide range of lumens the light can produce. Oh i like battery check feature a lot in NarsilM easy way of testing battery conditions.
I found ramping mode on MT09R ok but not perfect, at its lowest when ramping up it jumps in brightness which kind of annoying then it is smooth after that. NarsilM doesn’t do that, NarsilM is more linear too to your eyes.
I can’t translate that to lumens, but if i use Astrolux MF01 running NarsilM which is making real 12K lumens as a reference i can calculate roughly how much lumens my MT09R makes.
so with a little bit math (1060/880*12000=14454 Lumens) my MT09R is making roughly 14.5K Lumens for a NW version i think that is about right could be more or less since ceiling bounce is not a perfect way but can be close indication how light performs.
now with the same math my MT03 is making 8k Lumens which is also close, my MT03 is CW btw, while my convoy L6 is making 3800 Lumens which is a bit low should be close to 5K but my L6 batteries was not fully charged. update: with fully charged 26650s my L6 is making 4700 lumens.