The quote is based on the CST-90, which means if you stick a CST-90 in there, you’ll achieve 100cd for every lumen it outputs. This is pretty damn good, considering how big the CST-90 die is, can be over driven very well (due to the copper mounting) and goes over 3500 lumens easy.
I think somewhere around 750kcd would be a ballpark range for a really nicely heatsinked, overdriven and dedomed CST-90.
The CST-90 emitter itself is like $80 though…
EDIT: For context, a skyray king has roughly 25kcd, a Fenix TK41 has roughly 45kcd and a Fenix TK75 has around 80kcd and an eBay HID (the really oversized flashlight ones) are around 220kcd.
So far, interest totals 14 to 16 units as follows:
Min Max
Chicago X 2 3
Pulsar 1 1
nitroz 1 2
dthrckt 2 2
18sixfifty 1 1
richipc 2 2
scaru 2 2
ImA4Wheelr 2 2
texaspyro 3 4
Guess we give it some time and then go from there. If this does end up working out, I’m going to need some advice from you guys on packaging for shipping.
For that price, put me down for one too. What options would you have for a head and lens for this beast of a reflector? I would be curious to see a SBT70 in one. I got 325K with one in my SR90 reflector. And this thing is even bigger.
Looks like this will be a no go. I have contacted IM a couple times about purchasing a sample and to see if they would sell a smaller quantity. They are sticking with minimum order of 100. Thanks to all the folks that expressed interest.