I’m using that L2 with a single 26650 and dedomed XP-G2. I had some extension tubes lying around and took that picture just for fun.
I’m in Hungary BTW.
Get a 20mm copper disc (or the largest one that would fit your light). I’ve purchased them for ~$1/each in lots of ~5. They are available in various gauges and sold as blanks for making stamped copper jewelry.
Once you have the disc, drill holes as needed and solder the mcpcb to it.
I can’t find any info about a L2 and xhp70 build. Do someone here have tried that?
Also, I’ve read about an OP reflector for the L2… where can I find it?
I put an XHP-70.2 in an L2 for my brother-in-law around the first of the year. Zener modified FET driver with 5 modes, reversing. As I recall it made just over 7000 lumens with a pretty defined hot spot, turned out pretty cool. He wanted the one piece 2 cell battery tube, didn’t want the larger head of the L6, so I fitted the L2 reflector to the larger emitter and used 22 ga leads to keep it from being TOO much of a monster, worked out.
Edit: Found my notes…
1. 0.13A for 124.55 Lumens
2. 0.39A for 371.22
3. 2.14A for 1604.25
4. 5.24A for 3512.10
5. 12.03A for 7348.5
I used an N4 power bin at 5700K temperature on a 20mm MCPCB, didn’t use a larger board in this one but have since made one with a 32mm MaxToch MCPCB and the shelf cut a lot wider.
Couple of obvious reasons, I buy from Richard at MTNElectronics whenever possible as he’s a forum member and a friend of mine. Also didn’t want the highest possible binning power wise as I wanted to keep current draw down at least a little bit for run times, my b-i-l is not a flashaholic so absolutes here don’t mean much to him.
I built that last January, with readily available parts as he didn’t want to wait forever for it.
Edit: Also, I lean towards 5700K over 5000K, probably part of being a photographer with multiple flash units that fire at 5700K. I like the cooler tint for throw coverage, probably just me.
Yeah I also meant xhp70.2 of course. Very interesting… so with the stock smooth reflector the beam is good, with no disturbing dark spot in the center? I was thinking about finding a OP reflector, but maube it’s not necessary.
As for the tube, I’ll get the short one+extension… so I can use both 2x26350 and 2x26650 (even 4x26350, should I ever want to try 12v leds)
With the 70.2 in a smooth reflector finding focus is somewhat different, we usually raise the emitter higher with an XP-L HI or de-domed XM-L2 but with these big emitters it seems to work better to keep the reflector a little higher, not try to seat it all the way down on the substrate. In so doing, the XHP-70 donut hole issue is virtually eliminated.
The L2 with 4 of the 26350’s and an XHP-35 makes for a nice light, indeed.
Oh, and by the way, the driver I used for my b-i-l’s light was one of Richards 20mm FET drivers, at the time I was having some AVRDude issues and this 20mm driver was only like $9.50 so…
Hello, any idea of how many CDs an L2 convoy produces, with xhp 50.2 and controller H1-A from kaindomain with r100 added and 1 single cell? I really like the move short and sand-colored version, greetings!
Probably just that it is the version that comes with the extension tube to use 2 cells, the driver that’s in it will handle it both ways, one cell or two cells.
There is a variant that is in “short form” with only the single cell tube , this one can’t handle two cells.
Typically when buying the L2 as a host you get both tubes so you can set it up how you wish. I have extra tubes thanks to Mitko and have set one up with 4 cells running an XHP-35, works great but it’s LONG! lol
I see, yeah I know about the 2 tubes, i just had the doubt it was an even newer version but you must be right, nothing is written in the description and there are no new models in the official convoy store. I was suspicious because the black version actually costs slightly more than the new grey and desert tan variants (talking about the code discounted prices).