I postponed contacting Dale regarding the new driver. No hurry on this side, and I’m sure it’s hectic busy at Haikelite. New MT09R with improved driver should soon hit the stores, and people should receive the new driver soon hopefully. I’ll check that out first.
On a side note, I just came back from a midnight hike in the woods with both my original MT09R 70.2, and good grief the output and beam is just a dream. It’s a stunning light alright, and I’m glad mine work well.
Oh yeah.
And while the color rendition is not as beautiful as my newly modded BLF Q8 LH351D, color rendition is still good at 80CRI.
And momentary is still so fun to play with.
Yeah… but your Q8 is not BLUE.
I ordered new M09R.
It has new driver Texas Avenger.
I recived new drivers to my MT09R ordered from group buy.
Tonight I ’ m going to measured lumens from new MT09R and compare with my modded MT09R from group buy.
Man that’s awesome! If possible I would like to see pics of the old and new driver. 
cool man… still waiting for mine.
I suspect it will arrive soon.
I don’t have old drivers.
I swapped oryginal from MT09R to MT03.
I can add pictures of new drivers in flashlight and alone.
How to add miniature on post??
EDIT
I found Picture of old drivers soo I add it too.
Oryginal driver from group buy Imgur: The magic of the Internet Imgur: The magic of the Internet
New driver
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Wow. It’s real. The spring bypass is there too…
Here you go.
From smokuxx1987:
Original driver from group buy.
New driver.
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How can you tell the difference between the 70 and 35 version?
I don”t have version on XHP35HI
It’s easy hklarnoob.
Just look at the die size of the LEDs while off of course.
It’s easy to spot a 3535 LED vs a 7070 LED.
Yeah but there’s nothing I can see on the driver that says the driver is for the 70 version.
Yeah, the old xhp70 driver had lots of 7135 chips, the new one doesn’t.
At the expense of possibly looking like a fool, is it possible the drivers are interchangeable with the emitters determining the amp draw/load?
One is 12v, one is 6 volt and the MCU is 3v so I assume you have to use a different voltage divider between the 2 drivers.
I think TA said he had to tweak NarsilM to get it ramping just right, but…
I’m gonna just be quite and maybe TA will come along and explain all our questions. 
(I showed TA this thread)
Yes they are exchangeable.
However, you would need a new 12V MCPCB.
FET only? I really hoped it was still FET+N+1…
No, it’s actually FET+ resistor array.
Look at all the SMD resistors on the left.
This allows for regulated output up a certain point.
I’m curious how different this production driver from Haikelite is compared to TA’s hand built driver. Did HL change the design or try to make it cheaper/cut corners?
Interesting that they are already selling / shipping these drivers. I asked this weekend when they would be ready and they said they were not done yet. They were supposed to send the rest of the payment before they started selling these.
The drivers are the same design, the only changes are some of the components to work correctly with the voltage change.
Since the PCB is the same the only way to tell them apart is by looking at the components.
The easiest method is to look at either the bank of resistors or the R8 resistor to the right of the MCU.
Bank:
XHP70.2 = 47ohm
XHP35 = 150ohm
R8:
xhp70.2 = 22k ohm
XHP35 = 47k ohm
There are some other component changes as well but these will be the easiest to see.