The mailman (well actually a women ) brought a box.
Yellow heavy tape all around.
Inside was a small white simple box and sone stuff to fill it.
When opening a mat anodised tail was visible.
I pulled the light out of the box and saw a lens cap and “Jaxman” written on the tube.
YAY
What a light! And so glad I could see how it works right away.
Wauw! Just wauw
This oozes quality.
Zoomed at any level and no rattle to hear or feel when shaken hard.
It has immediately earned a place next to the S70 at hand for checking the grounds.
Love this light and will keep it stock, now for the host that will be made with another LED and driver then the XML2 NW and stock driver in this one. This one I do not dare to open, the dust free underside of the lens after it being assembled good must remain so!
^ buy the Z1 host (when it is available again) and transfer the innards of the “pipebomb” into the original host.
That thought has been playing inside my mind for so many times ever since the Z1 host groupbuy started.
Yes that is exactly what I plan on doing lionhart and akhyar
But this one stays stock for now, still looking for nice soft gloves for handling lenses and refelctors.
Maybe when those are in I will mod this stock Z1 (because one of those BIG leds MTG2/XHPxx in the Z1 sounds pretty sweet too!)
Would be cool to 1 on 1 compare the stock XML2 NW vs the cool BLF parts (Bistro XPL HI NW tailcap) of the pipebomb
I’m also interested in the stock Z1 with XHP50 emitter, but only when using 2x 26350 batteries as I’m not fond of the extended length of 2x 26650 as I do find the size of the “pipebomb” feels just nice in the hand.
But so far only one member has tested the Z1 XHP50 with 2x 26350 and his initial impressions on the config is not that impressive, so I’m reading this thread on what are the options available
See? You’ve started! You wanna be an Amateur in training, which leads to becoming a professional. You can make it a connoisseur act, flashlights with wine and cheese, ahh, the good life! Light up the castle and throw grapes at it…
FX35 and xhp35 P2 1C Sinkpad using single Thorfire 5000 protected: lux; 118 / 669 l/h/strobe; converted same parameters as OP lumen 551 / 3124. Focus just short of. Yellow dot center. Yellow ring outer. offtopic: I am eyeing, budget permitting, a mirrorless Sony A6000. Very aware that pics are mandatory. Any thoughts?
Fresh 4.2v BASEN 4000 checked at 583.72 and 3203.49 a difference of plus 31-32 lm on low and plus 79 lm on high. The order is h/l/st. Seems quite consistant for a 1A (1.5A max) driver. The mtn 22mm 4s was ordered 2.5A (NTE 4A led)
My XHP-35 at 2.89A is making 2300 lumens, wonder why your numbers and mine are so divergent? I’m using 4 18650’s on the second one, 4 18500’s on the first one, both are running modified led4power LD-2 drivers.
The 2.89A one is a MaxToch Shooter 2X, amps measured at the emitter.
The only input I can give is driver design differences. Without tearing it down I do remember he swapped the coil to small fine wire wrapped sealed type versus coilcraft (4s). The FX uses a huge coil (coilcraft type clone) 1R0 111 TB9. I’m looking at the 111 as a ratio. The 4s mtn I recall a very large R050 installed. Sorry I can’t be of help. I don’t know.
I took a picture for you where you can see the stacked resistors. There are one R150 and one R160 side by side, the R150 has my added R100 sitting on top
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