Again glad to do the review and thank you.
I did take some measurements and I forgot to write those down unfortunately , but if my memory is serving correctly I think it was 649000 for an ANSI meter throw of 804 meters?
At least in that neighborhood.
Great review and vid Robo, Thank you, looks like it’s time to buy a new Max, not to sure about the knurling but if you say it’s alright then it’s alright, will give it a go.
Thanks again…!
Edit: Speaking of knurling, I can’t seem to recall but one light that had knurling anyhow.
I personally love those rubber grip things, use them on a lot of different lights, wish I could buy a bunch of them.
Thanks and YW…….Yes it don’t look like much , but the little ribs across those raised or higher spots do have a fairly good grip to them , much more than I anticipated when I first looked at the light.
Yeah Brother! :person_facepalming: Wonder what chemical/process they are using?
650kcd from a 5050 large die LED in an ~50mm reflector?! Are you sure that’s correct? That’s unheard of performance levels…
649kCd is not 804m of ANSI throw… might be a typo
800m from the specs = 160 kcd, which is very good for a C8 size flashlight.
This light looks much nicer than a C8, performs best in this form factor, has a simple and useful clicky UI and being a Maxtoch must be very robust, and personally I like the rubber grip ring. It is nice to see that Maxtoch does not go with the flow of e-switches and fancy UI’s. :+1:
Thanks for the review!
OK guys my apologies ……Kind of brain dead last night /early this morning as I had been up for about 27 hours.
I posted my figure of my number that is used to get the throw (square root of 649000 is 805.6 meters of throw)
The actual number should be 162.25Kcd for the lux.
Lack of sleep is a serious number scrambler, it’ll get ya every time! Coffee, bold strong coffee. 
6490 (meter lux reading on x10 setting was 649) x 25 (5M measure distance) = 162,250 (162.25Kcd) for 805.61M throw. 
I need one of these. lol Seriously though, I like the look and size, like the reflector, might change the driver but I really like the overall form factor a lot. Thanks robo…
Thanks djozz for your figuring and also Dale…………
I had the right number in the wrong place and without writing down anything the other day when I did the figuring I got the numbers mixed up in my head.
The 6490 was my meter reading the other day and it was a x 10 factor , so the throw and kcd numbers you 2 guys figured were right on the money.
Apologies………corrected in post #16
I was wondering why you didn’t show up on this thread yet… I knew this light was your type of light. I’m assuming this will dethrone your nitecore p30 now, but not your olight m2xsut
Look again. 30 minutes on high discharges the battery, a lot. By 41m the low voltage protection has kicked in.
I made room for this last night by giving my Shooter 2X with sliced and diced SST-40 to my nephew. Now there’s an empty space that needs filling. Gotta love it when a plan comes together…
Oh, and as it so happens I have a lone LED4Power driver sitting around waiting for a home that is just coincidentally a 9A variant. Man it don’t get no better than that! lol
(tangent, sorry) so a chemical dedome of the SST-40 is possible; I wonder what the secret sauce is…
Has anyone ever tried xylene on either SST-x0 or Cree domes?
Edit: apparently it’s very similar to toluene which I know has been used successfully on Cree emitters. Maybe worth a try.
162kcd and 1,550 lumens is very impressive considering it’s about the size of a D1S and GTMini. Do you know the price and when it will be available?
Kawi has tried just about everything, from Toluene to racing fuel and a lot in between. He’s killed probably 20 or 30 emitters. :confounded:
Unlikely, but Maxtoch isn’t big enough to be able to special order a batch without domes, are they? Would a manufacturer such as Luminus even entertain such a request?