Very unlucky Djozz…
There must be more of them around. Probably in China market and it seems that we have only few China forum members here that could check that out.
I doubt that on the China market they have the highest bins S2-S4, most probably are not with known bin at all (tint or output). Hank was pretty good in getting specific high bins, some even exclusive.
They don’t necessary have to be S4…
S3 is also fine or even S2 is fine… Even R5 is better than new production XP-G2.
I am very lucky to have few good old XP-G2 S3 2B from Taobao thanks to our forum member wkhchin81 but I am running out of them…
He also tried to contact China market dealers and says that plenty of sellers are not familiar with such issue and the few sellers that are aware of problem say that their stock is first in first out…
I’m gonna buy some XP-G3s and compare them to my old XP-G2s, see how they perform at 6A.
Very well probably, the point is: how do they perform when they are dedomed?
I can’t remember if it was you or someone else who tried dedoming it and it didn’t perform anywhere near as good as an XP-G2?
I will do a test with dome on, then a test with shaved dome, and finally if both methods perform worse then I will try dedoming.
I will be comparing to a dedomed XP-G2 and dedomed XL-L2 and XP-L HI.
I think with dome on or shaved dome the XP-G3 should be able to have higher intensity than dedomed XP-G2 simply due to higher lumens at the same current.
I don’t know about the higher intensity, the footprint of the old XP-G2 S4 2B is smaller than that of the XP-G3 so the intensity shouldn’t improve…theoretically.
Guys I did my redneck tests with my diy Djozz style FET drivers and imho XP-G3 sucks! I would toss them in trash any time and anywhere… :smiling_imp:
Maybe you’ll be better luck with buck drivers. I support professional testing although Djozz, MEM and FMC already did some preliminary tests of G3.
Now that the old XP-G2 is impossible to find, should we start focusing on Osram leds? A while back FMC dedomed one and was able to get 410kcd out of a Courui D01 (as opposed to 440kcd with old style XP-G2 S4 2B.)
That’s only a 7% difference in performance. Much better than the 39% difference between new and old XP-G2.
Pretty sure it’s the exact same size as these larger “new” xp-g2s.
I’m guessing the answer is they don’t know what they are selling, but fasttech has 2 listings for bare XP-G2 S2 0D, with different sku’s and also 2 different listings for bare XP-G2 S2 1A.
That Ali link looks like the old production LEDs. Wondering which tint the photo is of? Mmm, maybe we should request photos of all different tints… if these are the real thing, this guy is in business.
Last night I used one of these ‘new’ type S4 3D emitters from intl-outdoor dedomed in a zoomie (a Supfire A2, nothing awesome) and because the mod is a replica of a mod with the old-type S3 3D dedomed, I was able to compare the performance. I did just compare it by eye thusfar, but the newcomer works very well, is even a tad brighter than the old type. But the current may be a bit different in this mod (although both are between 3.5 and 4A)
So to complicate things, the new production type XP-G2 is not in all cases a worse dedomer!
Djozz that are some good news…
De doming S4 2B brings us rough and unevenly lightened emitter surface which is clearly seen on any aspheric light.
Now about die projection of S4 3D emitter … Are those nasty, new production process phospor remains (like in new S4 2B) visible in beam projection?
It is not too bad, some reddish streaks appear, but nothing annoying. Here’s a projection made with a projector lens, to show the details better than with a flashlight aspheric lens (sorry about the rough dedome and the burnt bit on the phosfor 
) :
I was afraid of that… I mean what I see now…. But thank you very much for your effort…
I can’t lie… It looks really bad and dirty ): Remaining phosphor bits are clearly seen…
Phosphor of new G2 emitter looks rough but in fact it is very gentle and soft comparing to old one (which is clearly seen after each de doming process).
Sorry Djozz… I am brutally honest.
P.S.
This picture from this thread also shows difference (left is good old; right is new one with rough orange phosphor which remains ugly when de domed and it makes die projection very dirty in aspheric flashlight :confounded: Sure you guys will not notice that in reflector which is more suitable for “new guy”).
Judging from the pattern of dots, this looks like the “old style” to me.
FWIW, the two “new style” S4 2B emitters I have tested had ~90% of the lux and similar amp draw as the “old style”. 167Kcd in C8 with stock lens. 99Kcd in EE X6.
Sorry but it ain’t.
I am always amazed by human perception… It is funny thing 
Different phosphor layer on new XP-G2 guys… Looks rough but it is soft especially with hot de dome like Djozz did When you de dome a lot of phosphor stays trapped in a silicone cap. I really suggest chemical de doming on new ones.
With the old style there are 3 or 4 dots across between the bond wires (depending on which row of dots you count). With the new style there are 5 or 6. In djozz’s pic there are clearly 3 and 4 dots between the bond wires. How many dots do you see?