Yes, Narsil is great. The cheat sheet is here: New BLF GT Narsil M Cheat Sheet for v1.2 NEW VERSION
The driver itself would only have minor changes. The bigger changes would be to the light itself. If they built what I have in mind it should be over 25k lumens and shed heat MUCH better along with some other smaller changes to improve the design.
Stock xhp70.2 was a bit under 15k lumens on my meter and the xhp35 was around 6k lumens on my meter.
With the new driver the stock XHP70.2 did around ~16-17k lumens and with the new 80CRI M4 70.2 LED’s it does around 23k lumens. With P2 bin 70cri emitters it should do a bit more then that.
Yeah, the tint on this light is great. The 5000k version would give more but not that much more. Should be around ~25k lumens if I had to guess. You are reaching the limits of the batteries at that point.
Yes, DC-Fix is great on this light, I am going to be doing the same on mine.
The xhp70.2 can technically hit over 10k lumens for a few seconds but as it heats up the lumens drop down to around 9k. Although with 3 of them the batteries are the limiting factor.
Also the cooler tint will read higher on the meter all else being equal due to our cheap meters being biased.
I can’t speak for what Haikelite plans to do but I get the sense they plan to replace drivers in lights that have issues.
What a great news. Well done! Texas_Ace.
I think many will look forward to purchase of MT09R with newly improved driver and design.
Any idea what kind of timeline all this will take? Communication between Dale and I is slow to say the least but there has been communication…
I can’t speak for Dales side of things but if I get the go ahead to build the V2 prototype I hope to place the order tomorrow. With express shipping I should get the new boards next week and then a few days for testing. So by the end of next week I should have the design ready.
Then it is just a matter of them sourcing the parts and building the drivers. Can’t say how long that will take. My work should be done by the end of next week if all goes well.
Any chance of just buying the driver from you directly??
Yes, I will be selling a limited number of drivers directly. I am trying to get an idea of how many to order now actually. Thinking I will order 10 to start with. Terry might also be offering them as an option in his lights but I can’t speak for him.
Put me in for one. maybe Haikelite will reimburse me for doing all the footwork AND the repair work 
Just to be clear I have nothing to do with this and this has not even been talked about. I am simply selling the drivers directly, unrelated to Haikelite to those that want a TA driver now.
Yeah right, where is my paid-off charger too It’s been a month or so with no sign of charger is being updated.
Put me down for one driver please
Haikelite should have used TA driver + narsilM from the beginning :person_facepalming: talk about ruining a good light. now i have to spend money for a new driver. I might be interested on the new TA driver but really depending on the cost MT09r is already not a cheap flashlight.
Wow, those numbers make my head spin 
So your planning is to reach those 9k lumen per emitter? Isn’t that a bit too much? Even Vinh’s lights like the X7vn is “only” doing 7k lumen per emitter, 21k overall. Isn’t this a bit more on the safe side in regards of lifetime and “burning my hand after 10 seconds”? 
Thanks for answering our questions here!
P.S. Hopefully Haikelite will sell the complete light with your driver. I’m very interested, but I don’t have the tool or the experience to do it myself…
Texas_Ace, can you tell me in your view to what extent are the current drivers for the MT09R 35 and 70 TA or TA style drivers?
yes to me they should have not sent out any light before chinese holidays and work a bit more on the driver and quality and ship them out when they feel there are no problems, i get the feeling the rushed this out before holidays and those with issues must either replace the light or whatever, this is a few weeks if not more until a proper light will be in hands. I just happy with mine no flicker issues or anything else except for not peaking the promised lumens i can live with that but techincal issues is bad for a groupbuy light for those that have i can understand the frustration…
I was under the impression they used a good driver already before the groupbuy even started, guess not…
and yeah the charger seems its not gonna happen much even the smaller SC26 light not much happens now, i think they focus on the drivers for now perhaps even tho i got a reply last week it was supposed to go on sale?
Mine isn’t having issues but in the interest of higher lumens and a better interface I would totally be interested in a new driver (depending on price).
Well in my current light I am “only” hitting about 8k per emitter. Pretty good for an 80CRI emitter.
In the light I have in mind, lets just say it might get it’s own model number, there would be some significant changes.
Far as a balance between heat and output, that is why I use narsil. With the ramping you can get whatever balance of heat and output you want.
Also the ramp stops at around ~12-13k lumens to keep the heat down and turbo jumps up to the full 23k, this helps.
In turbo it gets hot silly fast for sure but then just don’t use turbo for more then a few seconds 