Maxtoch XSWORD L2K // 2000 Meter Laser Tech Thrower // Full Review

Yeah, very nice looking light. I actually posted those photos before, but just for posterity (and kudos to Maxtoch ), here’s another one:

It will be interesting to see if the LEP technology gets enough support to develop, and eventually trickle down to a more affordable price point.

I wonder how small these can be made?

As small as a regular LED flashlight.

The Xsword is now available on the Aliexpress site………….

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/MAXTOCH-Xsword-L2K-2000-Meters-Thrower-2188-Yards-Beam-Distance-Free-Beam-Filter-Ultra-Focused-Beam/314381_32949195871.html

Wonder how long before Dale does a driver “up-grade”…

No telling what he may try before it is all said and done , but I have a feeling he may let this one stay as is for now.

I have a Shooter 2X and it is very good,though I sent it to giorgoskok here in Greece and he changed the led for a cooler one because I didn’t like the tint.
If they can ship the XSWORD L2K via “priority direct mail”,I could buy one.

Robo, did you measure the candela/throw? That’s like the biggest thing to measure.

Did I miss it in post #1?

Yes I helped in the design of the 2X actually. The light itself and the tint was specifically designed for hunting purposes on the 2X and it is a more lemon or yellowish tint. It does work well for hunting , while it may not be suited for a “general purpose” tint for some.
I love ALL my Maxtoch lights , as I have couple of their small 16340 lights ( long discontinued now) and I have 2 of the factory dedomed 2X , a 2X that I modded with a sliced SST40 and FET , the XHP70.2 model that I swapped to an XHP50.2 for better throw and now the Xsword.
I also HAD the Red and the Green 2X lights one of those was changed out to the regular 2X driver and XP-L HI emitter and the other sent to Richard (Mountain Electronics) as he was needing a 2X for a special project he was working on. I have 2 of the M24’s and I also did a give away and the 3rd M24 I had was given away here in the forum at that time.

I have always said that I would put the build quality of the Maxtoch lights right up there with any of the Big name lights though and still feel that way with the Maxtoch products.

I am also sending you a PM.

I don’t think I actually put it in the main review but ,

In high mode it was 1.8 million for around 1.8 or 1.9 miles of throw and in medium 943K for about 1.1 or 1.2 miles as far as the ANSI meter goes.

EDIT: Maybe I can talk Dale into getting another shot that is more clear at the water tower by his house at 1.9 miles away as he did in post #13. The bugs were really bad that night , but with some cooler weather moving in now, maybe they will not be so bad.
Of course he will have to wait on the rain to stops if it is as bad as it has been here. We had 10 5/8 inches in 14 hours the night before last and we are at 5 1/2 inches now since last night and still raining here.

This is new technology but if we’ll compare laser to classic led emitter than there is no doubt that led is more robust, with more life span and very easy to fix/swap when something dies.

I really like it but one thing is to play with that in our hands and other thing is to put it on magnum centerfire rifle… Just saying that I would only dare to put it on magnum centerfire if I would really know that they used electronics potting methods to make it more durable and plus it would be nice if they would offer spare parts support. I had laser flashlights failure before(ND3 lasergenetics, plus some older IR laser lights-illuminators) and I really could not do anything to fix them up.

Warranty? Yes but I certainly don’t want to send flashlight across whole world, wait several months for fixing it, pay for shipping and back shipping. That would cost more than whole laser module I assume.

But sure… I also have in plan to buy something like this :+1: and very good review. :beer:

Okay, so about 2680 meters. Even at less lumens than rated, it’s exceeding the factory throw numbers.

Yes , the beam is just super intense and it is amazing to me just how intense it is in person for such a low amount of lumens. I tried walking down to take some beamshots with just the Xsword to light my way and the hotspot is so small and so bright even at 30 to 40 feet in front of you , with zero spill ,that is disorienting and really hard to use the light for walking at night.

Indeed, rainy and cold so any further (better) beamshots will have to wait. We went from 90º for a high on Sunday to 44º for a high yesterday. Windy and rainy and just downright miserable for grumpy old men… I haven’t seen our rain gauge but pretty sure we haven’t had the 15” robo has had, I’m roughly 120 miles West of him. Been a turdfloater for a large part of the State, no doubt about it…

Glad to do the reviews and thanks.

As with many “new” items and with the new technology , I am sure any replacement parts or after market parts will still be awhile being available. I can say this light was designed for long distance searching for military , fire and rescue , police searches and such and not designed specifically for a hunting light or weapon mountable light as was the Shooter 2X and the M24 lights were , at least not to my knowledge.

With that being said and with me not wanting to try and tear into this new Xsword head due to it being glued well and also me not knowing how it goes together and fear of breaking the light before I can find any parts to fix it……………

I can say that with the Buck drivers Maxtoch uses in the previous lights they have designed , the drivers are either potted or at least semi potted on the weapon mountable lights.

Would I try to put this one on a high powered rifle at this time? Probably not because I just don’t know if the laser itself would handle the shock or not along with the other factors. I am pretty sure the laser is much more sensitive to the heavy recoil than a regular emitter is though and also pretty sure if that laser were to move even a miniscule amount inside the head , then the focus would probably be screwed up and the light not work right.

Now again with that all being said I CAN tell you that the Xsword will handle a pretty good jolt from experience already. I had the light set up on a tripod and I was in the back of my pickup with the tripod sitting on top of the tool box that is another 2 foot or so higher than the floor in the bed of the pickup. This put the light about 8 feet off the ground and I also had the legs pretty close together on the tripod so it tipped easy. I went to change modes with it sitting up there and hit the light knocking it off the tool box and it went straight to the ground , which was a hard limestone driveway. The light hit on the side of the head with the added weight of the tripod and never blinked or went off and is still working fine now.

That does not mean after a few times of something like this happening it wouldn’t either be messed up or quit working , or that repeated recoil from a high powered rifle wouldn’t kill the light eventually , but I do know it will handle a pretty good hit.

1.8Mcd?
Wow, congrats on passing the first LED flashlight I ever built :slight_smile:

The driver…

The lens…

The laser/mirror/phosphor/lens module…

Couldn’t see how to disassemble the module, there are obviously 2 screws holding a cover on but they are inside… I didn’t want to break the little yellow circular seal to take this further. :wink:

The head is a nice solid one piece design…

The top of the head is machined for the big lens to have a nice solid shelf to sit on, the rubber o-ring sits on top of the lens and the narrow bezel screws down onto this ring…

Well it happened much sooner than I thought it would with taking this one apart Dale.
Thanks for the photos of the teardown though.

It looks like the Maxtoch quality runs throughout this light also and the one piece head design should be rock solid.

Is the lens glass or plastic (acrylic)? It is really hard for me to tell with it mounted in the light

DB Custom!

Thank you very much on this! I am very intrigued with those double convex lens system and what it does… Enderman? You know this…

So if I look only the maxtoch laser module it is completely different than this type of LEP? Right?:

With maxtoch laser module we have laser epoxied on top of that glass which is projecting beam into the middle of the phosphor… But no… I don’t get it… How come that beam is so tiny and that phosphor looks like large surface…

Anyway this is Über cool. I really can’t understand in my head how the beam flow happens through whole laser light system especially now when I see it has double aspherical lenses… I mean wtf?

Dale… You should try that lenses with classic led light.

Edit:
Those are larger aspherical lenses. So technically with same type but this time much smaller lenses like lets say 50 mm or 38mm ones we should have some gain on lumen output but then we would loose candela?

If so. Hope that maxtoch will make smaller version of this… Anything above 500 kcd with even more decent lumen output will be great.

If that 69mm lenses gives 1.8MCD 50mm would give roughly 60% less so that would still be 1MCD and 38mm lenses would give around 600kcd… Small Sipik style around 200kcd…

The laser is mounted to the side, in the module, the piece glued to the cover lens is a mirror than angles the laser light down into the phosphor, so in the end it’s sort of a (can’t remember the name for it, where the emitter is facing down from the top?)

I turned it on without the lens in place and that block, the mirror, makes a big shadow… so the double aspheric is focusing that out for the beam.

I took the bezel off because I thought the inside of my aspheric was dirty, looking at it from the side when on low showed what appeared to be a dirty surface…. the silver metal piece that is screwed down over the phosphor, this has an irregular surface and the lens is collecting the reflection of this and allowing it to show what I saw. The lens is crystal clear, on the inside anyway, this one already has a couple of small scratches and a blemish.

I knew you were going to ask that David, but I really can’t say… I can easily remove it again and tap it with a piece of metal to see if it sounds like glass or plastic?

Edit: I still don’t get the placement of that prism or mirror, mine seems to be off center but the beam works extraordinarily well. There is also a spec of what looks like the glue on the inside of this cover lens, which is AR coated as you can see by the green hue on the reflection. There is a screwed down metal cover plate that covers this glass lens, inside the cover plate is a milled shape that places the glass lens just so… I assume they put the dabs of glue on the glass with the prism already carefully attached then use the cover plate to locate the cover lens. Lot of bits and pieces, more screws than I would have expected, everything goes together just so….