You can combine the two versions too. Rev5 efficiency + pyro1son’s easy pot control = real winner.
Basically what I’m saying is, your tailcap isn’t complex enough 
But I’ve got the latest and greatest in quad mcpcb’s and the freshest XP-G3’s and the rarest Khatod Optic and the elusive Tellurium Cu… should count for SOMETHING! 
Edit: You’re gonna make me populate the lighted tail cap aren’t ya?
Nice Dale. You and that little lathe will / are becoming good friends. There isn’t much that’s more enjoyable than just building something as you think of it. I don’t get to do that too often but I sure like it when it can happen. Nice clean work. :+1: Keep it up. Dan.
Thanks Dan, appreciate it. I thought of you more than once when I was doing this one, rest assured! 
Two things Dale. Take more sedatives and send me some. Love the light especially with the no tailcap in sight.
What a beautiful creation. Congrats. :)
I like this picture. Kind of looks like you're in zero gravity and the parts are floating away.
Steve, I got the brass ring in tight with no holes drilled by using the point on a cutting tool. It had a sleek look that I wanted to keep, but the dang rubber post inside the boot was too long and the light wouldn’t tail stand without changing modes! So I had to drill the little holes so I could unscrew the retaining ring and get the boot out for that simple shave mod. Sure looked sleek without the tweezer holes. Oh well, I’ll probably put some LED’s and potentiometer on the switch board, it’ll give it that one more special look.
Showed it off tonight to a couple of Special Forces guys and they were totally freaked by the output and size. Got out the Trustfire TR-J20 and the guy was showing me money, wanted it bad! lol (13,500 lumens)
Ran it walking the trash can down to the road, pretty much a 10 minute walk, then those guys and the ex-cop neighbor used it for a while, ultimately came in to a cell down to 3.7V even though it’d been on for most of 30 minutes. So it works out really nice, carries easy, isn’t prone to slip even without gripping it firmly due to that double ridge in the middle. All in all a very handy light. The Khatod optics really make a difference, offering throw that the Carclo’s just can’t do.
Man that is beautiful… When is the production run? I need one ASAP.
interesting that you put the lighted tailcap board in it, yet you don’t want a lighted tail cap. SO that means this is for someone else
Amazing build, I like it a lot :+1:
really awesome work, I will use this as inspiration to do a multi-emitter build one day…
This is how I screwed my boot retainer in without screw holes on a light similar to yours on the rear end.
That light looks amazing. Only thing I woulda changed is add some grooves or knurling just so that it looks different than the tail cap.
Extremely nice build!
What a beauty Dale, are the two beamshots photo taken under the same setting? Amazing how much more light the kathod seems to put out! is this the 25mm 10° version?
Wow, that light is beautiful. I wish I had even a quarter of the skill you have Dale.
Nice work.
Nice little beast.
That looks nice with the copper. Makes me wish I had a lathe.
Ha… I see what your sayin’
Looks like an awesome little light. It’s fulfilling to see the works of your own hands, hey?
Very impressive light
Amazing looking and shining!