So if one were to direct drive a dedomed XPG2 S4 2B and then taking the same battery (also fully charged) and direct drive the Osram KW, which would have higher lux?
Hmmm… Very small inductor for a 100µH…
That will probably be a bottle neck, will get hot.
Tiny FETs too… Could be okay though.
You can slap another R160 sense resistor on top of the R160’s (which are probably parallel) to up the current.
Ordered 5 of them.4 are immediately going into a (jetbeam T6) with the stock driver.
I’ll post results in this thread in about 2 weeks. Anyone wanna take a guess what 4 OW,s will do in a 80mm ish T6 housing, Lux wise?
I just finished installing a the older Olsen flat black with MTN fet driver running 2P pani/3400 in a astrolux MF02. As far as hot spot intensity goes. It seems more intense then my BLF GT on a white wall 100 yards away. Going bonkers with properly centering this tiny led. Anyone wanna guess what this light will do, lux wise? once i get it properly centered? The MF02 reflecter is a fairly ringy and simply a poor quality reflector. So I’m not expecting anything amazing here.
The answer is it depends on used battery. Anything in Samsung INR30Q class is not good for White Flat cause they will pull from 7-8A in DD mode significantly downgrading lux performance.
With White Flat you want to stay somewhere at 5.5-5.8A current draw. So use Sany GA, LGBD1, or any other low current cell that will not pull more than 6A out of emitter.
It depends on how good your heat path is. If your reflow is done well with enough but as little as possible solder, on a DTP board that is thermally well mounted on a good heatsinked flashlight body, then 5.5A to 6A may be the sweetspot. But if everything is less perfect, this led (small die, high heat) is very finicky about that and will have its maximum performance at lower current.
To me, judging by the graphs i’ve seen, it seems to be the maximum reasonable current.
Above that you hardly gain any output.
It will age the LED faster and mainly more heat will be produced.
Vf will also be higher.
The difference between 850 and 950 Lumen is not worth it i.m.h.o.