Review: TrustFire X6 SST-90

I see , so you have measure 5A at the LED.

That is still 1400 emitter lumens, not out the front.

Look at this test done for the SST-90 by jtr1962

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/5660/luminusphlatlightsst90l.gif

No beamshots? Good you put kitties pics, if not I will be really mad.

(and nice cats you have there although I must agree with JohhnyMac that the grey eno looks p**sed about the role as flashlight support)

BTW. Did you order the driver you linked to? I have been eyeing that one before but did not jump because I have not found a single review or anything about it. And it is kind of huge since I dont know yet the inner dimensions of the light I would try to fit it in. Funny description though -

"Attention: One piece Circuit Board with 3~4 pieces "Thermally conductive adhesive". To make it better to thermally conductive, please smash the "Thermally conductive adhesive" and filled it between circuit board and body."

Smash the thermally..... LOL Ok!

The driver by default comes at 5A, you can mod it to get more current by adding parallel SMD resistors on the top of the "mini tower" of SMD resistors that the driver has.

You can get up to 28~29 Watts from this driver, that means around 7A for the SST-90 (you can get more amps, but less voltage, but never more than 28 or 29 Watts)

At DX forum DrBlood, NeoFX (me) and alines399 discuss about modding this driver: http://club.dealextreme.com/forums/Forums.dx/threadid.858108 with some measurements.

Thanks for this review FX-32 - just found it although I have had an X6 for a year now.

Like you say a great light with exceptional build quality and with great flood AND throw.

I think this light is much underrated - especially on CPF which seems to think that anything ****Fire is rubbish. Some of it is of course, but not the X6 which is certainly much more expensive than most of the ****Fire stuff.

Yeah, I totally agree with you. The only defect of this flashlight is the driver, but it has much potential.

Aloha and welcome to BLF epictetus!

Thanks for the review FX-32!

Welcome to the club, epictetus.

Thanks for the review.

By the driver being 'defective' I take it you mean that the driver supplies less power to the emitter than it could do - not that the driver is busted - yes?

Cheers

I understand from reading several reviews of this light that it's a quailty build, but suffers in output. I recon someone could make a few dollars selling modded versions of these kicking out around 8-10 amps. I'd be in.

The SkyRay KING has it’s baby brothers (“QUEEN”), and it looks that the TrustFire X6 also has one too: www.dealextreme.com/p/prairie-fire-d9-xp-l-t6-white-led-5-mode-800lm-glass-lens-flashlight-2x18650-126167

The dimensions on this ‘baby brother’ seem to be promising (if true). It says the head diameter is 65mm, so it’s safe to say the reflector is above 58mm. If someone can buy this and test the current to the emitter then it’d be great. Based off the reflector size alone it looks like a solid contender to the STL V2/V6.

The X6 is a better accessory with the black and grey cat! Nice pics FX-32!

I found this on Alibaba, which like like a clone of the X6. The seller posted is contact info here if anyone is interested. It looks like he is open to one piece buys if you are OK with the shipping…

Im curious to the mods you did with your driver on your X6, you have any info on exactly the resistors and where you placed them in to gain output ?
i would like to try simmilar mods to one of my X6’s.

you either have a small cat or a bloody big flashlight :bigsmile: nice light but the Strobe - SOS rubbish puts me off forking over hard earned for it. thanks for the review and the cat pictures :slight_smile:

Good review, I’ll order soon this light, when I have some $$$ :_(

I know this is a bit of a dead-thread revival, but I thought it was better than starting a new thread.

Does the driver efficiency go up when adding the resistors to increase amperage? That is, is the driver clamped down and energy is being deliberately wasted to heat, or are the components simply sub-par?