@KawiBoy1428 Did you have any throw numbers before the dedome? You’re numbers seem a bit low. Could just be the meter you’re using. Two other users measured 357/367 kcd after dedoming.
Lumen increase in the beam should be almost proportional to that of the spill. So with small improvement in cd and big lm - the beam ought to be much fatter.
Yea well this is a direct comparison, stock lights with emitter changes, stock centering rings, no shimming for focus, both done at 5meters. I’m sure I could tweak both lights to get more, but it’s not worth my time with little lights…not like my GT and GT70 with real (not shaved) de-domed E4 XHP-35 and de-dome XHP-70.2….where I spent countless hours on…
You could add 50kcd to the 90.2 355kcd and it’s still not that impressive….over other peoples de-domed SST40’s…
Performance is around the same as a TN40 v2. I guess they could get a bit more out of it if they tried but it still seems pretty good for it’s size and price. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. Maybe the actual production version will perform better.
Overall beam thinness makes K1 a very specialized tool. FT03 with SBT90.2 will be much more universal despite not throwing as far.
That said I expect that Hank will offer SBT90.2 eventually, though he hasn’t commented on the topic yet.