Hey guys and gals its been all business lately and no play! So i thought i would ask the tough question of what emitter you prefer in your C8?
I have personally never seen a standard XPL or Nichia in a C8 so feel free to surprise me? I haven’t seen many people using the XPG3 i have 2 C8s with this setup.
Hahahaha I can not chose i like both the XPL-HI and the XPG3?
It was a 17mm FET driver with zener mod. When it was built, the XP-G3 hadn’t come out yet. But, IIRC, a hard run XHP-50 can approach ~3000 lumens. I don’t have a way of measuring output, so I don’t know what that particular build actually did.
My 2 shell queens are a DDed XPG2 one that does 200k cds and DDed XPL V6 1D doing 155k cds, i also use a XPG2 based one( arround 200k cds too) on my .223 rifle
Well there is always some compromise between output and throw when choosing emitters. It’s just a matter of what your priority is.
Top binned dedomed XPL can really throw a lot, as evidenced by mitko’s result above. So you get a larger hotspot (more lumens downrange) with almost as much beam intensity.
Some measurements of mine, to approximately illustrate the output difference:
old production style XPG2 S4 2B dedomed in C8 with stock lens: ~911 lumens OTF. This light does 185Kcd @30s.
dedomed XPL V6 1A in EE X6: 1692 lumens OTF. This light does 94Kcd @30s.