been on a modding rampage the last few weeks. I collected parts for the last year and hardly built anything, then put together like 40 lights in the last 2 weeks lol.
Some of the highlights are listed below in the order my eyes fall on them, if you want more details let me know. They basically all have TA drivers running either narsil or bistro
8x SRK XM-L2 U2 3D with narsil Texas Avenger driver making 10,000 lumens
8x SRK with mixed tint (aka, left over) XM-L2’s and TA narsil driver making 10,000 lumens
8x SRK with XHP50’s making 17,000+ lumens also on narsil
XHP35 HI 1504 with 1000m of throw
L2 with XHP35
MT-12 with XP-L2 80cri making 1900 lumens and very little tint shift
MT-12 219C 90+ CRI
Supfire F3-L2 with 219C 90+ CRI
Supfire L3? with xhp50, hoping to get an XHP50.2 to replace it with shortly
L6 with TA driver swap making 6000 lumens in an otherwise stock light, not this last 2 weeks but still a favorite.
SRK with left over XP-G2’s and 219A’s in a mixed tint setup making 3500 lumens
WF-502b, the best looking P60 host I have for sure, with a 219C and 105C driver it works quite well but not as quality as my solarforce hosts
S41S 219C making over 3000 lumens and gets HOT even with thin wires to reduce current, pulls over 23A on a single 30Q!
VG10 with 219C, the best “p60 sized” host I have found, it is a P60 with a good heat path.
Convoy M1 with 4000k XP-L2 80CRI making ~1900 lumens and I truly love it, one of my new favitrotes. almost no tint shift (no more then last gen cree anyways) and amazing output and beam.
X6 Triple 219C, 3400 lumens great high CRI flooder but the heat is overpowering in short order
X6 XP-L HI 3B, 3800 lumens and while still floody it is much more usable due to less heat and tighter beam.
Convoy S8 with triple 219C, one word, HOT, although it handles the heat surprisingly well for the first minute. Great tint and output but the high modes are just show off modes.
Convoy S6 XP-L HI V2 3C, the best overall beam pattern of any of the tube lights I think, the TIR gives it a good run though but they are very differnt. if only it was high CRI.
Cheap little C8 sized light with an oslon square LED with a shaved dome that is a true pencel thrower
4X SRK with XP-L HI and TA Narsil driver. Pulls about 15A and makes 5000 lumens and throws a beam almost 600m, GREAT all around light.
3X busget king SRK. I used leftover XM-L’s in this one with a left over FET+1 driver, no shelf but good thermal paste. Great 2500 lumen beater light that I don’t care about as long as I don’t put high drain cells in it.
SK68 with 219C and TA driver, surprisingly nice light, handles the heat quite nice as well.
trustfire F25 with 219C and 105C driver with biscotti, very nice stainless steel light and one of the nicer 14500 lights I have
Cheap AA light off ebay with 219C making ~500 lumens with a 14500 with just an emitter swap
Lumintop tool with 219C D320 making a bit over 500 lumens with a 10440, just emitter swap
Fake hugsby XP-1 with XP-L2 emitter swap making 650 lumens on a 10440
Lots and lots of Convoy S2 and S2+ builds in all shapes and sizes, XP-L2, XP-L hi, Triples, lots of 219C’s TIR optics, reflectors, Mixed tint, de-shrouded bezels, lighted tailcaps, you name it. Think I built like 10 of them.
There are lots more cheap lights or lights that didn’t make a big impression on me but that is the quick version. I think I have officially “completed” my collection of budget and cheap lights that I know about. Well except for a jaxman Z1 or cometa, I want one of those. Everything else I want moves out of the budget realme and thus will have to wait till I have more funds then I do now.
That is unless someone knows of some super duper light I simply must have.
I can’t wait for the 90CRI XP-L2’s to come out. If the M1 is an indication of what they will be like I can see me changing over to them in many many lights moving forward.