SupFire M6 by Mountain Electronics, RMM's #1

ordered! :slight_smile:

The King/Kungs I’ve seen are indeed cylindrical in form, like the proverbial soup can. But the M6 has a larger head diameter than the body, or am I remembering it wrong?

I’ve got a spare driver, need to take a look at it…

Also, isn’t the M6 a triple XM-L while the King/Kungs are Quads?

are there Beamshots to compare stock / modded?

Yes - soup cans come in choice of LED's: 3, 4, 5, 7 (maybe 6 too?)

Maybe we can call it "3/4 18650 parallel battery soupcan size" flashlight....

I`m with TomE.. its quite easy to understand, maybe DBCstm is just giving you a hard time.

The M6 has a larger head so it more resembles a standard flashlight. It’s also deeper with more complete reflectors in the triple configuration, while the reflectors in the 4,5,6 lights are very cut up and shallower.


a quick steal off a google search to show what I mean

I don’t have either light, and it’s been a while since I modded the 3 simultaneously…I’m very forgetfull…probably don’t even remember what my point is, other than that I like the M6 much better than the King/Kungs.

And for the record, I was also slow to learn that’s not a serial number on the M6 but the company’s phone number, in case you are out shining your light and want to make an impromptu International phone call to order a few more…

<—-sneaking back to my corner now

How about the warrior?

sorry for going too much off topic... :p

How about 'multi-emitter, multi-parallel-18650, side-clicky, flashlight'

The warrior does not qualify as a soup can - it's too purty for that classification (in case you are not aware, I'm the official classifier... ), and all those blue buttons and lights? way too much classiness goin on there.

I got 2 M6's now and one FandyFire SRK, and head width are the same, so reflector width is the same too I believe. The M6's height is mostly from the tailcap bump, but it's head does extend a little lower. It's way too close to an SRK to be classified differently. Internally - yes, superior in several aspects.

I'm done -- no more on the names please!

I do think Richard is gonna be overwhelmed for the modded M6 requests. Basically at these prices, he's selling parts and doin all the labor and testing for free. Awesome light and deal....

I was just looking at the M6 driver and am intrigued. It’s got 3 mosfets, one for each channel/emitter, and essentially an ATiny13 or what appears to be so…the top is scratched clean of writing.
There are 4 bays for resistors in each channel, with 3 having R056 resistors in place. Looks like it’d be pretty easy to bump it significantly without changing the driver, which is indeed what I did to the one I modded before and it’s pretty much a beast as I recall, with a start value around 4000 lumens. (need to get verification on that)

So could the mcu simply be swapped out with an ATiny13A that’s been flashed for use with FET’s to get a more desirable UI?

Could the existing mcu simply be flashed with our newer Star firmware?

No, you can’t flash the stock MCU with Star FW and it has a different pinout so you can’t just swap it with an attiny.
You could disconnect the stock µC and connect a star FW flashed 105c to the Driver to control it.
Werner has done it and there are some pics in the M6 resistor mod thread.

btw.: I like the driver concept of the M6 as well. Actually I think it’s way better than driving multiple LEDs in parallel like most of the FET drivers do.
I will make a 105c based design with with 7136 instead of 7135, as soon as I have some time…

Sounds like a nice modded light. I don't care for the M6. It's way too forward heavy and feels awkward in my hand, as it constantly wants to go head down and you have to hold it more forward than the SRK. I still like the SRK best, but RMM does some nice mods.

Maybe I should leave this one alone…

Don't kid yourself.

I was referring to OL in his old age having trouble keeping the head up, needing both hands or whatever…

Nice RMM… you just hit 1000 posts!!! Time for a giveaway!! :party:

Nice RMM… you just hit 1000 posts!!! Time for a giveaway!! :party:
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Dang it, I think you're right! I'll see what I can rummage up! I didn't even think that I was close to 1000 yet!

Gratz to the 1000!

Way ahead of me and we joined 1 day apart. Congrats.

congratz Richard on your 1000 posts, hmm… maybe one of those famous FET drivers for giveaway should do just fine :wink: