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[RMM]

@Edness

The new quad board is a great improvement over the Tpad board. I was curious and had to order it and put it into one of my P60 pills. The beam is round and i think it throws much better as well. No regrets! I bought a P60 from Vinh awhile back and I now have to take that apart and reflow the LEDs to the new board. Will order more in a bit.

Sweet! I'm glad that it was worth the extra effort to offset the LEDs...putting them square is much easier! Making a 1S parallel board also would have been much easier, but I know that there are still a lot of guys who use these in 2S2P and 4S. Also would have been easier if I didn't make that center hole so big...or the wire pads so far away from the LEDs....you get the picture. No design is perfect, but I knew that I would have to live with reflowing and using hundreds of them myself, so I tried to make a design that I could be happy with even if it took me a few iterations to get there.

[Enderman]

@RMM

Can do 3V LEDs like the SST-90, just not generally recommended since that much current will blow almost any modern 3V Cree LED sky high. Although an XP-L or XM-L2 at 5.5A will put out more light than an SST-90 at 7A….

Oooh ok thanks for the clarification!
The 3v LED I’m planning to use will be able to handle 7A, it will have some extreme cooling (not the SST90 btw)
I’ll be buying one when you get it in stock.

[PBWilson]

Richard, where can we find out more about the D4 tiny 18650 quad from Int’l Outdoors? I’ve seen a pic and already want to chuck some money at it.

Will you be stocking them?

[PBWilson]

Oh, and thanks for the quick shipping and recommendations on my recent order. Gotta fire up the soldering iron and get that triple going!

[Edness]

I’m worried that the beam for the D4 will be like the Tpad board…Richard can you confirm?

[RMM]

Yes, of course we will be stocking the D4. We have already ordered some.

The beam will be like the TPAD since the LEDs are in the same configuration. I recommend not going with the XP-L HI in this light for that reason alone. The 219Cs look good, XP-G2 acceptable, but XP-L HI were always very square in that quad configuration.

[Sprinkles]

For guppy3drv, if I’m in Deck 4 Group 2, and I double click, will it go to 100? Or is double-click only active in groups with “D”?

[RMM]

@Sprinkles

For guppy3drv, if I’m in Deck 4 Group 2, and I double click, will it go to 100? Or is double-click only active in groups with “D”?

Only groups with "D".

[Sprinkles]

@RMM

@Sprinkles

For guppy3drv, if I’m in Deck 4 Group 2, and I double click, will it go to 100? Or is double-click only active in groups with “D”?

Only groups with “D”.

Oh, bummer. That would have been a really useful feature.

[Gunga]

Oooh. Looking forward to more info on the d4. Does it have a good moonlight mode? UI?

[Agro]

@RMM

• I finally got some time to sit down and work on some new driver designs and updates. The next to be released will most likely be the 17mm boost drivers. Thermally it is not an easy task due to the limited space…still not sure if I can get the full 10A input and keep reliability. Time will tell.

Seems very interesting. Could you tell us more? Is it related (either technically or inspirationally) to GXB17? What variants are you planning? 6V? 8V? 12V?
Is there any timing info that you can share?

[Edness]

@RMM

Yes, of course we will be stocking the D4. We have already ordered some.

The beam will be like the TPAD since the LEDs are in the same configuration. I recommend not going with the XP-L HI in this light for that reason alone. The 219Cs look good, XP-G2 acceptable, but XP-L HI were always very square in that quad configuration.

I guess if it’s not glued down, i can always change the board. I hope Hank doesn’t glue the MCPCB so it’s more mod friendly.

[RMM]

@Edness

@RMM

Yes, of course we will be stocking the D4. We have already ordered some.

The beam will be like the TPAD since the LEDs are in the same configuration. I recommend not going with the XP-L HI in this light for that reason alone. The 219Cs look good, XP-G2 acceptable, but XP-L HI were always very square in that quad configuration.

I guess if it’s not glued down, i can always change the board. I hope Hank doesn’t glue the MCPCB so it’s more mod friendly.

The sample light wasn't glued, but I'm not sure how production lights will be.

[djburkes]

Any pictures?

[ToyKeeper]

@RMM

Yes, of course we will be stocking the D4. We have already ordered some.

This has me wondering what would be the quickest way to get one. US Shipping takes a lot longer from Hank, but he will probably have them available sooner unless you have a simultaneous-release thing set up.

[RMM]

I am not sure which way will be the fastest, but at the end of the day you have to ask yourself who you want your money to go to. Who will give you better and faster support if things go wrong? At the end of the day, I hope that's mostly what we provide, because the Chinese sellers can sell things cheaper than we ever could---they have a huge labor, shipping, and tax advantage, so if we want to stay relevant it had better be for reasons other than price, even though we do still try and be competitive there as well.

[Enderman]

^
This is why I only buy from MTN electronics

[AlexGT]

Hi Richard,

Not sure if it has been asked before but are you planning on stocking the Luminus SST-40 in P2 bin cool white? KD only has N4 bin and according to Djozz data and 18sixfifty observation it might be a better led than the XM-L2 with lower Vf and capable of more amps.

Something like a P2 Bin in any of the following cool white tints:

Luminus Tint / Cree equivalent Tint
BA => 1A
BB => 1B
BC => 1C
BD => 1D
CB ===> 2B

SST vs. Ansi white color chart for reference (Ansi white chart credit goes to flashlightwiki)

Thanks

[tim70]

+1 :+1:

[T18]

@RMM

I am not sure which way will be the fastest, but at the end of the day you have to ask yourself who you want your money to go to. Who will give you better and faster support if things go wrong? At the end of the day, I hope that’s mostly what we provide, because the Chinese sellers can sell things cheaper than we ever could—-they have a huge labor, shipping, and tax advantage, so if we want to stay relevant it had better be for reasons other than price, even though we do still try and be competitive there as well.

Exactly, which leads me to suggest perhaps a great idea Richard, well I think it’s a great idea, for me anyhow.
I’d always certainly put my money into Mt. Electronics coffers over any other vendor, absolutely, just like money in the bank, so here’s my idea,
If it’s not to terribly difficult, perhaps on your flashlight page you could setup the D4 lights page now with the various available options so we can order and pay you in advance of arrival, and then now the good part for me is, I could just forget about the fact it’s coming to Mt. someday and know that someday it’s coming directly to my mailbox,… :laughing:
This way you would have money in advance for other projects, and I know I have a D4 coming “Whenever”, and we are all happy, sounds rather brilliant to me… ha ha, maybe…?