The DRY - why it has so few failures.

Out of all the budget triples, the DRY has the lowest failure rate.

Here's likely why. The LEDs mount directly to a 3.5mm (1/8") solid plate that is an integral part of the head assembly. The hole for the reflector screw even needs to be drilled out.

This is a Brynite host, functionally identical to the DRY host. All parts are interchangeable, but the anodizing is of a different, lighter color.

Pic of LED side:

The underside, where the driver is housed:

This is one of several reasons why the DRY rules.

Interesting. I didn't know the Rev0 was the same.

Does yours have a buck+boost driver ? I tried fitting a later SkyRay driver into the DRY, but the boost coil was too tall.

Same as Sky Ray rev 0. My is in total disassembly now because i strobed it with the DRY driver in the Sky Ray SR3800 with 4.22V cells. LOL! 1 of the LEDs poofed and then i used another for my Crelant 7G5.

But the DRY head is very slightly different from the Sky Rays, slightly bigger.

I apologize for the assumption. Does the torch work in both 2 and 3 cell configuration ?

Hey 2100 - are you going to fix/upgrade your Rev0 ?

Yeah....waiting for the 14mm star from Dinodirect. Got it for 8 bucks. :)

Great price. Are you worried about the forward voltage matching ?

Oh s***..

Well, i'd not be too worried. Still heck lots of light. 2300L OTF (down from 2500L OTF) is better than 0L OTF. I've always advocated people not to drive it with cells > 4.10V, well it depends on the resistance of the cells too. Sanyo 2600 @ 4.05V is still pretty POWER!

XTAR 2600s are probably ok even at 4.15V.

No, all of those non-DRY drivers are ok to run with strobe even cells charged till 4.3V (some Samsungs, Sanyo 16650). Not enough juice to fry the XM-L. I think if you use AW IMRs, they could fry it at 4.15V in strobe too. heh... It really depends on the actual sag of the cells when the XM-L is receiving full DD juice.

This seems like a good thread to ask this:

Does anyone know what the input voltage is for the DRY Driver 4 mode LMH and turbo (DD).

http://www.cnqualitygoods.com/goods.php?id=1349

Can I use it for 1 xml with 2 li-ions (8.4v)? Only use it on triple xml with 3 li-ions? I don't see the specs anywhere on CNQ site.

I'm pretty sure it's 3-cell only.