A $10 coupon too would make this irresistible…where did you find one?
Also, I think there must be a strong case of wishful thinking going on, because I’m pretty sure both of you who said the picture shows XML2 have been at this hobby longer than me, and I’d say its pretty clearly showing 3 wires to the LED…which indicates XML…unless I’m the one hallucinating and/or there is another pic?
Either way, if there is a $10 coupon, gotta buy it
So far I have only single 18650 lights. This will be my first multi cells light. Does this light require special battery? I mean protected or matched unprotected cells? Thanks.
This is parallel config, it is quite forgiving. You can use between 1-4 batteries. It is recommended to have matched set of course, but it is not as crucial (vs serial config).
Protected cells are recommended as previous SRK drivers allow rundown to around 2.3V which is bad for the battery. And that stop is not even caused by the driver, it stops only because the Vf of the XML already reached its lowest. In other words, the known SRK drivers did not have low voltage protection. No reason to suspect this driver will implement it, as they normally only copy each other.