I oredered it and was very pleased with the quality and how it is nice and compact. The AK-90 I built with XM-L2 LEDs and HB driver is a true toliet plunger.
I immediately installed the battries in my new “shorty” and gave it a try. Eh, it was bright, just not my kinda bright. I didn’t even make a good effort to measure lux or kcd.
It was in my possession a total of maybe 20 minutes before it was all taken apart. I flowed all components off the stock driver and wired a Hyperboost driver in front of it. I then converted the 2S3P battery configuration into 6S1P. I then removed all of the XML T6 LEDs from the head and now I’m just waiting for thw XM-L2 U2 LEDs to arrive tomorrow or Saturday. My AK-90 output is 87.1 watts. This shorty will be running 2.8-3A to the emitters. I will try 2.8A first. Then I will go up from there. At 2.8A the output will be 110.8 watts. If I dare to go to 3A it will be a blistering 118.8 watts! Im excited to find out if the driver will handle it.
I did some searches for anyone else that did somthing similar but came up with nothing. Has anyone else rbuilt a 12x led light like mine?
This will probably make me want to sell my AK-90. (Maybe)
6x3.7=22.2 nominally. The 6S1P was not as hard as I expected. Basically I just turned a set of the batteries around and cut one contact strip on the switch board.
The contact plate on the driver end is very big. I used silicone tape to insulate one side and made a copper braid for the battery contacts.
Build quality is excellent. I am by no means the type of person that would pick fly crap out of pepper but, I can pick out a bad job when I see one.
Oh and by the way. DO NOT convert this light to 6S1P with the stock driver. It will fail.
This light is gonna be Bad Ass. Can’t wait to see how the Hyperboost preforms. I too have been planing a build around a HB driver. I was thinking about the HBFlex but I’m kinda scared after reading the instruction manual.
Yeah the HBflex sems a bit complicated to configure to me too. I have a H6flex that I plan to put in my TK70 some day. Im sure it can’t be that bad to configure. The HB is simple. All or nothing! This will be my second build with the HB. I am very pleased.
