SC600 Mk III - now available with XHP35 in both cool and neutral tints.
SC600W Mk3
SC63 - available for preorder in both cool and neutral tints. Supposed to ship at the end of the month. SC 63w
If Zebralight can get a sufficient supply of emitters they are also thinking of offering the above lights in 90 CRI XHP35. That would be pretty nice: A tiny SC63-sized light with 1100 lumen output of hi-CRI 5000K light.
The high-CRI Zebralights sound nice, but I worry about whether they’ve finally fixed their tinted lenses and if the emitters still make a Cree rainbow. It could turn out to be a much lower CRI than advertised, depending on details like that.
Now, if they used a dome-less emitter, that would help a lot. And an untinted lens.
Even more amazing is that they accomplished this with a comparatively small boost driver that scales up to 12V or more from a 4.2V cell. I hope they can maintain CC boost regulation down to the claimed 2.7V LVC. Very cool indeed!
You’ll probably have to use 4 18350’s in series to get the voltage to run the emitter. I don’t know of any boost driver to up the voltage of two 26650’s to meet the 12v requirement.
The LD-51 does that trick. Driver for XHP35 LD-51
I’m currently talking with gearbest about that driver.
It’s not a direct replacement, it’s 28mm instead of 20.
Any ideas about modes? How many and what percentage?
Good question? Did you look at KD photos showing different power modes… none of them make much sense, especially the last one showing 1.6A @ 14V clearly being displayed on a bench power supply.
sooooo Which should I expect more “impressive” throw from, given all else is equal: A dedomed XPG2 at 4.5amps, or an XHP35 HI at 1amp? I know to be precise we need more specific info, but give it your best guess.
I’m assuming the XPG2, just making sure I’m thinking clearly
In theory and from what Dale has posted, it would seem they are very close to each other. Makes sense as the XHP35 is nothing more then 4 XG-G2 dies put together, so in theory assuming you drive it to the same level it would have the same surface brightness and thus the same throw.
The difference is that the XHP35 should net you 4x the lumens, 4x the spot size and WAY better tint options. I mean they have lots of high CRI XHP35 HI options out there, sure you give up a few lumens but who cares except for the ragged edge lumens/throw lights.