Dear Jaxman E2L hosts buyer, I think some of our buyers have received the hosts,and some DIYers have build a flashlight by it. I want listen and talk with you how things go on with it. Are there some questions need to be reply? or What can I do for you?
Days ago,Mr. Richard,from Mountain Electronics, had ordered few Hosts and E2L light without “glue” from us. So it will be a good thing for buyers from USA. They can buy host and no “glued” E2L from him. The DHL package will be shipped out to him tommorow from Hongkong. Due to some reason, the warm white version will be later. And anyone who like a Paypal payment can also buy from him.
BTW, I have find a propper logistics service that can ship batteries to part of the world. We will do our best to make busiess with all friends.
yes, the black version is in producing.
18500 and 18350 tube is also in production plan.
I consider 18500 is a proper kind of battery. Because we can get Sanyo or Panasonic 18500 batteries, while there is no Sanyo or Panasonic 18350 battery.
Hi Paul,
I have received the two hosts and I am very pleased with them, the quality looks great and the packaging was very good. This is exactly what I need to build it up to a good working flashlight.
I have not made one yet, but I have made many triple flashlights before and am very confident that this host is the best and easiest triple host that exists.
I think it’s very nice you are going to produce both 18500 and 18350 extension tubes, you can still get good 18350 batteries just not from Panasonic or Sanyo.
My hosts are on the way. I already made a Texas avenger driver and a PD68 lighted tailcap board for one of them. And has the XPL HI leds ready to reflo on your led board.
I have build up an E2L from host to flashlight tonight. My conclusion is that the E2L host is nice but not perfect. Miles easier than converting an S2+ in a triple though.
What I found that needs special attention from the builder (and could be improved by Jaxman) :
1)the ledboard needs a generous bevelled edge on the underside to make it sit flat on the shelf (I used a small diamond file). This is because the ledboard is exact the size of the head opening while the side of the shelf is bevelled a tiny bit. Once you succesfully have done that, ledboard and shelf mate quite perfectly. (btw, Jaxman left a brief note in the box trying to explain this but the note is not really clear)
2)the holes for the optic in the MCPCB are too narrow. You will get the legs of the optic in eventually but it is a royal pain to get there, I even used gentle whacking with a punch and hammer one by one on top of the legs to get the optic fully down (and thus leds in focus). This is a serious opportunity to damage the optic and if you are a bit more clumsy: the leds. When building up the second host I will ream the holes a bit before reflowing the leds, so that the optic will go in easily.
The rest of the build went smooth. I used Nichia 219C 4000K R9050 leds (from Rey), a Banggood bistro driver (with fix), and made a lighted tailcap. Because of the low Vf of the 219C I made no spring bypasses and the ledwires were thin (24 AWG?). The output on highest setting (30Q battery not completely full) I measured at 1930 lumen at switch-on and 1660 lumen at 30 seconds.
hi djozz,thanks for your topic on building E2L. I want say below:
Now the on sale E2L is the 1st version, so there maybe some little problem. As the points you have metioned,I give my answer for dear all.
1,the MCPCB is hard to be put into. We have recognize this, and next batch we will enlarge the place to fit the MCPCB.
2,as the holes of MCPCB, we designed the MCPCB holes according the lens strictly, we need a solid fixation, so we never want change it. We found we can assembel it very well. You can try more times and find a good solution on assembling the Lens on the MCPCB. I think since our workers can do, then deal all must can do it too, ever more better.
3,Other lamps including the Nichia 219 series will be availble in future. Becase we have inquired Nichia Company, they have not 6000k Ra=9050 led. Now only 4000K.