I wonder what results will be if these high cd flashlights measured at 15-20m. Just my mind working. if you read a super range thrower at 5m a very nice number but at 15-20m read much lower numbers you read wrong. Because the beam focused to 5m. And at bigger distances it will widening out and loose intensity. I always measure throwers at 10-15-20-25m and try to focus the light to get the highest intensity at 20-25m readings.
I’ll try to do that when I have the time. I managed to get 1600m. I compared the beam to an Olight M3X and it blew that out the water. Also compared it to a Nitecore TM38 and beam was still tighter though.
I put one in a Supfire F5, that was housing a dedomed XP-G S4 2B before. It did exactly 100kcd with the XP-G2. It is not a well-known light, a well-built 18650 zoomie with effectively 26mm plastic lens, here’s a pic.
Everything was done thermally as good as possible in this host. I first removed both spring bypasses and then added them again one by one because I hoped to get into the 130’s kcd. I ended with 120 kcd at start, 110 kcd at 30 seconds (with 500lm flood, 165lm spot). Still an improvement over the dedomed S4 2B, and certainly a better tint and beam shape, and contrary to the S4 2B the throw will hardly go down when the battery drains.
Dang! I am buying new EDC but I need something that won’t turn on accidentally in my pocket. But now you came with 120KCD for this tiny zoomie and that is OMG :+1:
I think on one pic is seen that it does not has anodized tailcap tube and switch threads. When flashlight has anodized threads we can turn it on/off with twist to turn move or just unscrew tailcap slightly to prevent accidentally turning on.
i would like to buy a cometa and put this led in there. which driver would be best? and do i need to think about something else? just the host driver and led right?
I made a Cometa (from the recent trash sale on BG) with a KW CSLNM1-TG led (on stock 20mm Manker board soldered to pill) and 12-chip biscotti driver, it is doing 4.14A and 299 kcd at 30 seconds (and pretty steady at that).
I hope that the wavien collar that I will try to add next works well on this led.
It is full moon now so I could not resist the moon beam shot:
I wonder, how well would smaller reflector lights throw with this emitter!
For example, S2+ with SMO reflector and this led, and lets say 5A driver, what throw would we get!
Btw, I measured the hotspot of my Cometa mod at 8800K. I checked a LX1010B luxmeter against my Mobilux class A luxmeter, for this hotspot my LX1010B (that for neutral leds under-reads) measures 340 kcd which is more than 13% high (LX1010B calibrations may vary )
Not finished yet. So just reporting some info for those wanting to swap this emitter into a MF04. Used a thin solder layer as recommended and lapped the stock MCPCB and the emitter shelf. Used an old MT07 buck driver set to 4 amps. Using the stock MF04 reflector isolation ring the beam is not quite focused. At the moment, the emitter is not quite centered (but appears close) and it is visible in the beam. The hot spot is not sharply defined. I only measured 1.3kcd at 10.85 meters. I can't find my favorite light meter to verify this reading. The light is way too big for my integrating tube. So no lumen measurements to report. No indications of thermal sage noted.
Not sure what direction I need to move the emitter yet. I think it's too high in to the reflector. The heat sinking with the large MCPCB and host makes me think I can probably up the current to 4.75-5 amps. Any suggestions on that from you folks using this emitter in bigger lights yet?
I'll report on progress when I get another chance to work on the light. If anyone has converted and MF04, please report what worked or didn't work for you.
EDIT: Stock isolation ring is focused. Centering the emitter was all that was needed.