Nice flashlight but 50°C threshold for maximum driver temperature is an absolute no go for me. That stepdown temperature is way too low for using turbo for more than just some seconds. For comparison please refer to Convoy M3 and Sofirn C8G that also have a too conservative stepdown.
Neal, do you see any chance to ask Jackie (Enogear) if he can raise the thermal stepdown threshold up? 50°C is way too conservative in my opinion. Surely, the light will not get too hot to hold but you sacrifice a lot of turbo runtime with such a low stepdown temperature. Thank you!
Are you sure? I have a LD-A4 driver in a Convoy C8+. The LD-A4 has onboard temp threshold that turns off the driver at 65 degrees Celcius. At that point, the host is impossible to hold except at the tail. I then went and wired in the temp sensor on the MCPCB to the driver and set it to trip at 55 degrees Celcius surface temp of the head, measured on the fins with an infrared thermometer more or less in line with the shelf. The LD-A4 driver is at that point still far from exceeding it’s own onboard threshhold of 65 degrees celcius.
Maybe 55 to 60 degrees celcius driver temp would be fine, but in my opinion 65 to 70 degrees Celcius driver temp is pushing it…
Jack used to sell the dual switch version of the Nightwatch IRA with the copper pill on his Enogear site and that was a beast of a host. I put in a 4x E21A in that host and it can pretty much sustain turbo indefinitely in outdoor use while holding it in the hands.
One might have to buy both the SST40 NW dedomed and the sliced and diced XHP50.2 versions just because of the leds. Signed up for SST40 NW in M4D M4X interest list.
Neal, do you think it may be possible to get a dedomed XHP50.2 seperately, without the flashlight?