I bought 3 pieces, I plan to put one in my Olight R20 to make a pocket thrower.
Another one will go in my Amutorch JM70 (TA FET driver) which has a sliced SST20 ATM.
The last one ? Don’t know yet… aspheric maybe ? My B158B ? I’ll see…
Nice! I have this on the way with a Convoy L2 host and plan to put that together. I think it should have some pretty crazy throw with that combo.
Looks like a good LED, but it seems like it doesn’t beat the dedomed XPG2 by much in terms of throw in the examples above. E.g. the D80 and S8. I recently measured a dedomed XPG2 (new style) in an S2+ smooth reflector at 29kcd.
Is this an issue of improper focus or reflector imperfections or over/under driving? What are people’s understanding of this?
I’ve ordered 5, let’s see how long it takes them to arrive…
Ok so it’s a more efficient LED butt its reflowing fickleness and subsequent performance variation makes me a bit hesitant that ultimately it’s worth the bother to take out all my XPG2 S4 2B’s. I just don’t run my flashes for long periods of time enough to really gain from the runtime gains plus what appears to be not that much of a lumen/lux boost.
I mean for the hassles involved I might as well wait for LEP’s to go modder mainstream - as in cheap and prevalent.
As for new hosts sure why not give it a go butt I’m not expecting my socks to get blown off here either. I’ll prolly wait till a GB comes along with one in it too.
i think we can make a group buy for this led. This led will attract a lot of attention
I’d rather see a GB for Boost HX. Or the 2mm² white flat.
Came home today from 2 weeks in France, got 3 of these LEDs in the mail.
Just put one in a cometa. Will post results when I have dependable measurements.
Looks good! Let us know when you’ve got numbers.
Just ordered 4 pieces. Sure it will be a while before I see them. Looks interesting and can’t wait to experiment with them.
Got my 3 samples…let’s mod !
Thanks for starting this thread and the comprehensive summary in the OP!
Geuzz, can’t wait to hear more about your Cometa mod. I read it is hard to focus it in the Cometa. Did you have any issues focusing it?
Ok. I went into my cold shed for you guys and have some measurements.
I think I usually measure a bit lower than others around here and I measured some lights again to have a good(ish) reference.
I have a almost clear image of the die, but I feel it can be a tiny bit better focused.
I did not measure ampdraw, but I got best results using an old protected keeppower 18650. With better cells I got worse results. So it is indeed better to keep the amps down a bit.
D1s stock (5d) 115kcd
Souponfire thrower, fet dedomed xm-l2 205kcd
Cometa osram throw king 315kcd
That is a pretty good result Geuzz, close to the B158 with dedomed XP-G2 but with a smaller lens.
I will put one soon in my B158B.
Nice. I still have a b158 laying around, maybe I’ll order some more osrams depending on your results.
At least I have believe in your numbers not being to high also.
With dedomed XP-G2 now it is making 300 kcd