I don’t have anything to measure the currents with.
I’m about to leave soon to take some beamshots so Ill take the T10 with me as well if you want to see some comparisons of them.
The T10 wont reach half as far as the RC-G2’s I suspect, it might flood more though.
I actaully bought a T10 for my girlfriend then a RC-G2 III for my mother, after “testing” the RC-G2 III for her I bought one for myself as well, then another 3 from DX as gifts. I also ended up buying a T10 for myself but it rarely gets used.
Thanks, Ezarc. That was really great. Buying Moddified Romisens from Bryan/Shiningbeam is what actually turned me on to just how great so called budget lights can be and pretty much put a stop to my paying for expensive Surefires. However, I’ve always been curious about how different the SB Romisens were from their more common counterparts so I found this review very intriguing. Thanks again.
thanks for the review, I didn’t even know that an XP-G version of the RC-G2 was available. Interesting change with the pill design, although I prefer the screw in type for more efficient heat transfer. The beam shots pretty much match what I see with my RC-G2 and RC-G2 modded with a Nichia 219 - hot spot intensity is similar, but the hotspot is twice as large with the Nichia. I found the flood much more useful too.
If you have the opportunity, could you take a macro shot of the reflector in the XP-G version please? I’m trying to figure out where the LED should sit with respect to the base of the reflector, as the Nichia sits much lower than the XR-E did. I’m getting a NW XP-E2 and Fasttech 5 mode driver soon, which should probably split the difference beam wise. The 3 mode driver from Shiningbeam looks really nice too, I might have to pull the trigger on that at some point.
The XP-G the pill screws in to the reflector, the reflector screws in to the head and the head screws on to the body. I think the heat management is good and it hardly even gets warm.
I’ll try and take a close up of the reflector but I only have a phone camera, the reflector is also different for the XP-G version because it has a smaller LED. My phone doesn’t want to upload pics at the moment but Ill see if I can work around it some how.
awesome, thanks for the photo! Looks like I’ll have to turn down the edge of my reflector so that the head can sit slightly lower on the body.
I don’t doubt that the heatsinking is fine on the XP-G version, I just prefer a more direct path between the LED and the air. Adding thermal compound to the junction between pill and body on my modded light has noticeably allowed it to warm up after being on for 30min or so, compared to the untouched original. The extra 50-60mA the Nichia is drawing might have something to do with it too, though 150mW of heat isn’t a whole lot.