Now that you point it out, that is odd. Australia supports a lot of things one might be surprised at considering the population, but Cutter definitely sticks out when you put it like that.
All Aussie newborn are issued with a LED flashlight (we call it a torch) at birth, this is issued by the Aussie government, and it is branded with their name, DOB, & birth hospital's name.
Then every birthday these torches are updated to the latest LED technology.
And Cutter has the supply contract for the next 50 years.
Btw, this has enabled the Aussie population to greatly cut its carbon footprint, thanks to incandescent bulbs now being a banned possession...
Happy New Year!
Best Regards,
George
PS:
My torch has been updated 99 times already, & I have been informed that my 100th birthday upgrade will use 4 of Cree XHP70 LEDs.
So they issue LED flashlights to each newborn and the government sends a new flashlight with the latest LEDs every year. They thought of this long before LED flashlights became commonplace and a baby has no use for a flashlight and even anticipated new generation of light bulbs coming out back when incandescent barely changed in a century…
In addition we have a 99 year old member who keeps up with every new flashlight development and is reminded yearly of the hospital he was born in, and expects a 4 LED flashlight from a government who constantly keeps track of any time he has moved in the last century and is willing to pay increasingly expensive prices to send flashlights to all its citizens on an annual basis :bigsmile: :party:
Someone has too many lumens rattling around inside their heads
On the plus side one country has actually implemented a good idea
It looks to shallow but the hybrid style with light orange peel at the outer might do well to smooth the beam. It probably wouldn’t be throwy at all, do you know what it’s designed to be used with?
Pulling numbers from other posts of yours, I found at one point, when running triple V6 2Cs at 12.7A off of a VTC5 you saw 4040lm. And at 7.3A from purple efest 18350s through an MTG2 you saw 3485lm.
So if I may, I’m going to make a table of your published X6 builds to help me keep things straight…
6V LED — ~4.6Wh available @ 5A from 2*Purple Efest 18350 (down to 6V total)