So this SupwildFire is a 7 XM-L T6 light with a pretty nice reflector, made in the form of a C8 but a big brother… it takes a 26650 cell. Has a lighted side switch that shows power level when running and has a micro USB charging port.
Oddly put together though. The emitters are on a pretty thick aluminum MCPCB that sits on a shelf, hollow pill… the driver is secured with 3 screws from INSIDE the light, down below the MCPCB. So, I swapped the MOSFET to the 70N02 which is more efficient, changed the leads to 18ga, cut an aluminum emitter shelf that is press fit into the top portion of the driver bay (cut the press fit area into the driver bay) replaced the XM-L T6’s with XM-L2’s in a mix of color tints… 3 warm white 3 cool white and a de-domed cool white in the center. Also bypassed the springs.
So now, after having seen 1368 lumens on a Basen cell straight from it’s twin still in stock form, this one makes 4823 on the same Basen and if I put a 30T in the fat tube it does 6603 lumens. It makes enough heat now to heat up the head in about 2 minutes.
L and M modes are quite high, with (on the Basen) Low coming at 1597 lumens and Medium at 2497. (Yes, it’s the typical driver UI the Chinese favor, H-M-L-S-SOS-Beacon.)
Pretty cool light, good price, nice reflector, just needs some tweaking to make it more productive. Of course, there’s nothing I can do to make it produce the 100,000 lumens they claim it makes…
Pics so it happened…
Straight out of the box… there are two of these so I attacked one and allowed the other one to watch.
Size comparison… I was talking to my buddy on the phone (he ordered these and had them sent here) as all this transpired so forgive me the sloppy nature of these pics, they were “on the fly” as it were…
So above you see the HD2010 and Convoy C8, here’s beside a Convoy L2…
Plastic threaded housing around the switch lights green when the light is on and the battery is at a fairly full level…
Same area lights red when charging via the micro USB port…
Will you look at this Monster spring in the tail? Steel, uncoated, won’t even accept solder. Had to wrap the bypass around the spring and solder to itself…
A look into the 7 cups of the reflector at the XM-L T6 emitters. The thick Aluminum MCPCB is at least made right such that the emitters are well centered, the centering rings are unusual, never seen their like, but they work well…
Showing the MCPCB with it’s emitters, some of the centering rings, and the white Fujik type glue holding the MCPCB onto the shelf…
The driver is secured with 3 screws from the inside, here’s the battery side view…
Fortunately they left an open slot where the charger boot plug comes into the driver bay, used this opening to punch the MCPCB up from underneath with a screwdriver…
The driver, with it’s new 70N02 applied… their FET has a 15mOhm Rds on time, the new one is 4mOhm Rds On. This is the one that started the FET craze with Comfychair leading the way what seems like forever ago…
Purple Haze, purple haze… an UV induced look into the new XM-L2’s arranged in a staggered WW/CW configuration with a CW de-domed center emitter…
A look into the reflector showing the new XM-L2’s without the UV light…
So, the plan is to build the other one better with a threaded thermal shelf and SST-40 emitters, probably on 20mm SinkPAD’s and tediously hand installed to match the reflector. Most likely with a piggybacked FET+1 driver running the show to get rid of this semi-horrid UI (this one at least lets you turn it off with a press and hold to avoid the cycle of blinkies, but you do have to wander through them at some point)
I think this was about $23 on fleabay. My buddy saw them (18 emitters to 3, and everything in between) and of course he wanted me to try to hit the claims… on a single cell? Yeah, right!