Excelent review, pictures.. and flashlight.. I think the XRE led can be replaced with an XPG, as the reflector is screwed to the drop in, and it wont rattle. You will have more lumens, a bigger hostspot and more spill.. what do you think about it?
This is an actually beautiful flashlight.. unfortunatly it is underdriven with 1x18650
Well darn you again for doing this! First I fell for the Skyline 1... and now the "two". I must say, the distinctive machining looks absolutely stunning. My thoughts about accumulating so many flashlights is that I will be able to mod my favorites well into the future... and it feeds the sickness right along with my other hobbies. At least I'm incorporating flashlights into many of the things I do. LOL! The "two" surely looks like a fav for a long time to come. It just screams "high tech" and damn good looking! Thanks for the great review. Looking forward to you tearing the living guts out of this thing like you did to your "one"! Its probably to early to tell, but do you think heat management is better than the typical light of this size, or is the machine work more for aesthetics than function? I wonder how it would manage heat @2.8A with an XML. Yeah, I know it would probably be pushing it if on for more than 5 min, but you never know.
My concern with driving an XML @ 2.8A in this host is the lack of threads (contact area) to transmit the heat from the body to the head. What do you think? Does the head get as warm as the body?
It's not compatable. The pill is mounted in the body, and is a bugger to remove. During upgrading my skyline II witha 1.4a driver I had to destroy the original...complete pita!
Yeah, it's rather a shame both of the Skylines are so anoying to upgrade. The driver is held in place by the push fit brass piece you can see in Match's second photo, sadly it's pushed in to place either with a press of some kind or a bloody big hammer :P
When I look at both Skylines, it appears that it would be the easiest thing in the world to design these bad boys so that at least the brass base of a normal P60 drop-in could be screwed in. How awesome would it be to drop some powerhouse combination in either of these fine flashlights. The Skyline 2 will probably be my next purchase.