26650 can be gotten from cnqualitygoods and int-outdoors. If you are afraid to use unprotected LiCo, get the MKNE IMRs, though you do suffer a 15% drop in capacity...not too big an issue though. Problem is, i have 2pcs of King kong 26650 and 1 pc of MKNE.....ugh. And int-outdoor charges shipping for 1pc, unless you get their lights.
Dammit, the MKNE from int-outdoor is sold out!
Rated for 11.2 volts MAX but takes (3) 18650 3 x 4.2 = 12.6volts last time I was at school?
Bad technical writers or just a driver board waiting for a fizz......
Rated for 11.2 volts MAX but takes (3) 18650 3 x 4.2 = 12.6volts last time I was at school?
Bad technical writers or just a driver board waiting for a fizz......
Unprotected is fine for me, I've read the king kongs are good, not sure if I would buy protected batteries int-outdoor just yet.
Any way these trustfire lights drop into low mode also called dimming when the battery voltage is low to let you know it's time for a battery swap, well mine do it's a good feature to have.
Atlest with the 26650's I can use my 3 cell balance charge leads i made so I can charge 3 in the time it would take me to charge one and the voltage is matched for series use.
The other site says 8.4 volt, but it should be 12.6 volt since it has the battery tube extention for the 3 rd cell like the TR-3T6 and the TR-1200.
I was supposed to get the XTAR S1 triple XM-L, but i think that one would be too expensive. And definitely get pretty hot in the highest mode (it listed 2750 lumens, i guess that is emitter lumens but that is a lot too). It's smaller than the TK70, so it will get pretty hot. The DRYs can get hot no issue, i have too many extra drivers. LOL!
XTAR S1 looks nice, but the price will be right up there i think, i rather some thing a bit cheaper to knock around.
I plan to mod this TR-J12 with 2 drivers from DX or KD.
1 for 3*XM-L in row, another for both side.
With 3*26650 I can get 2.7-2.8A per LED
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/6-18v-3000ma-3-mode-circuit-board-for-xm-lt60-emitters-57779
Hi Pok, this is like the DRY driver (I have lots of them!). 3 in series is ok. How do you plan to wire the other 2 LEDs? You cannot use another of these to power the 2 LEDs at 9V.
With 3 x 26650, this light would be very efficient and you will get 2000 lumens OTF at least. The original ver 0 of Sky Ray 3800 you can get 1600L OTF, but it cannot be sustained I mean it can do that but the driver will fry eventually.
The DRY would not fry, just that it gets too hot and eventually will too. But generally reliability is fine.
Need to get the light first and examine it. Hope the driver can stand up to heat. This seems to be driving each XM-L at 1.5 amps. Not sure is it in series or parallel. With 3 of King Kong 26650, you can do slightly over 2hours at 2000 lumens OTF with no issue of overheating.
We need to know if the leds are in series or parallel first, even the TR-3T6 with a couple of resolders should throw out 2700 otf,s but for how long is the question.
I did that, DD. no issue. Strobe with the DRY driver killed one of the LEDs in my SR3800 (replacement 16mm coming from dinodirect, $8 only!). Looks like strobe is very hard, maybe the cell can recover during that brief OFF period and when it comes on it whacks the XM-L silly......do this a couple of times and it goes POOF. That is why i told people not to operate the DRY with fully charged cells, let it drop a bit to 4.1V at least and the light would serve you for a long time. My best cells, the Sanyo 2600 (better than my NCR18650 and NCR18650A) would have absolutely no issue POOFing XM-Ls when fully charged, they are like near IMRs in terms of current delivery.
Strobe is realy hard on led,s and jsut about every thing electical, not to mention your eyes, still not sure why they insist on selling lights with strobe.
Remember that this driver is up to 18V with no memory mode.
Both 2 drivers power with 3*26650 and always start in low mode when you switch on.
Sorry for my bad English I can't explan well.
Nice! I think they just raised the bar with this one. Pity about the price though, although the per-lumen or per-emitter price is still reasonable.
Maybe one problem, How can I put 2 drivers in bezel 
Pok, thanks for trying to explain. Maybe someone like E1320, mitro, dopmuller, boaz can figure it out.... If it's 6 x XM-L then that's very easy, as long as there is space inside.
sb56637, this works out to be usd16.6 per XM-L for the aliexpress store at usd83. For this light at 75mm diameter and slightly bigger body tube, there is quiet a lot of aluminum too. The tube is pretty thick. I think it is easily 500g.
Interesting, this is only 63mm HD and the Sky Ray L1 is 74mm. On Kaidomain you can see the SR L1 to have the reflectors not extending to the edge, while this TR-J12 got reflectors all the way to the edge.
Someone listened to us!!! Whats up with the 72000mA drive rating lol??
It is good they have moved away from the TR-500, 600, 800, 1200, 1600 and TR-3T6 hosts but they would of had to for 5 x XM-L's.
Run time with 3 x 26650 4000 mAh batteries should be decent and with all that alloy and fins it should do well for heat, ill be intrested if they stayed with the style of the TR-3T6 screw in as I thought that was great.
Price for 5 x T6 emmiters and a new designed host is not to bad, but it is getting up there for budget lights, on first impressions I'm keen.
Vaporware or a prototype. Look at the blurred out host and terrible pics. I don't trust this one bit.
Rich
I agree with Rich about the first pic. It's a bad 'chop.
The other pics from the site look legit.
The 72-amp rating looks to be a decimal point off.