could you upload your pictures to another hosting source not blocking 3. party use?
Once I find the time, I’ll look for a new hosting site.
I’ve got a couple thousand pics, so it’s going to take a while.
Recently Photobuckets website has been super slow due to all the people pulling their pictures off. I was able to get a few hundred, but gave up.
Hey Jason
can you post your side switch led with resistor?
tempting to mod mine too
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I’m trying Imgur and it seems okay, but not great.
Okay, due to high interest, I was able to get all the pics loaded up to Imgur. Holy cow, it took over an hour to do it. Maybe paying $400 a year to turn Photobucket back on is not such a bad deal. Lol
Just kidding.
Yea Imgur has become rediculous to upload pictures every since the photo bucket hosting price explosion.
In what way do you mean?
My complaint has to do with the folder structure. With Imgur, you can load a bunch of pics into a folder, but the folder has no thumbnail view. If I want to find a certain picture, I open the folder and then have to scroll down a super long page of full sized pics.
With Photobucket, they had thumbnails to easily find the picture I’m looking for.
I’m not sure, but I suspect that Imgur just dumps all your pictures into your account and lets you organize them in folders. You can delete a folder, but the images stay. IDK, it seems weird.
All I know is that it seems to be much slower uploading than before the changes with photo bucket. It seems almost that the servers are overloaded
I finally decided to install my new xhp70.2 (P2-1D) cool white emitter. First I had to upgrade the bypass wire in my tail spring as the copper braid kept burning through.
I’m getting 17.3 amps once it stabilizes after 15 to 20 seconds. Pretty impressive using the Liitokala blue cells.
I apparently didn’t do a ceiling bounce measurement after adding the TA Fet driver. Using the stock driver with R100 added gave me 350 lumen in a ceiling bounce, so I know the new driver with old xhp70 would be well above that. This new 70.2 shocked me with a 740 lumen at turn on and about 700 lumen after it started to stabilize after 20 seconds or so. That’s double! If the stock driver with R100 is about 3800 lumen, I’m guessing I’m well over 7,000 lumen now.
The yellow corona is not too bad in this cool white tint. At least not at the higher brightness levels. I can probably get used to it. The 50.2 in 5700K that I tried out was definitely more yellow and I did not like it.
The new 70.2 does have less of a donut hole pattern. It’s not gone completely, but much better than the xhp70.
The first 2 photos below are a direct comparison of the 70 and 70.2 on my L6 with the same reflector height.
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If I move my reflector away from the emitter just a little, the donut hole reduces more. See below.
Now when you look at these lights without the lower exposure, the donut shapes are much harder to see. The hotspot of the 70.2, which is shimmed out looks really smooth and has sharply defined edges.
Here are the same 3 photos as above, but normal exposure values.
I’ve only had the 70.2 in my light a few days and the batteries are already running down. It seems like I’m getting less than half the run time compared to the xhp70. I’m not using it much at full output, then again, maybe I do have it adjusted a bit brighter than the xhp70. I typically go full power then drop it down a little. That way I’m getting close to full brightness, but with noticably less heat. I’ll report back on the battery usage in a week or two. First impressions are it can can suck batteries dry quick! Lol
UPDATE: Battery usage is pretty normal. I guess I was just blasting stuff with full power too often. Lol
I also did some distance measurements. At 1 meter I got 172 kcd or 830m. Based on my old throw distances I was expecting more, but I have to remember that this is a “dome on” 70.2. Slicing the dome on my old xhp70 gave a 24% boost. That’s a lot. In theory it would take my 172 kcd up to 213 kcd and throw would go up to 923 meters. Personally I prefer a bigger hotspot with more lumens so I’m not gonna slice it.
It’s right here. 3.2mm by 1.6mm 1/4 watt. I’m not sure what the 1206 refers to. Either number works.
It’s 3216 or 1206. It’s the same dimension, one is in metric, other in imperial.
3.2 mm * 1.6 mm or 0.126 in * 0.063 in
thanks, i’ll order some resistor and try to boost the current on my L6 a little.
I think i’ll post my question here Jason.
well i ended up ordering TA driver everything went well, the only thing that i haven’t done is the indicator LED, i am still waiting on translucent side button from simon. i’ll ask when i hit a snag, but basically the unused 2 pads at the back of the switch board each one powers each LEDs so i just supply + to each unused pad?
That’s correct. You can split the wire to run to each or use one wire and add a bridge to the other pad.
Didn’t you just ask about how to remove the side switch cover? I’m wondering if you added the LEDs yet?
So i just use the cable provided by Lexel (the one with 472 resistor soldered)?
Yeah i did ask about removing the side switch on Lexel’s thread, but i managed to figure it out myself by try and error.
btw. with full battery it draws 10.5A not sure how many lumens that is.
oh i forgot what wire gauge is recommended and still fits the hole in the board?
It’s supposed to be a 4700 ohm resistor. 47 then a 2 with a line under it. An actual 472 would burn out the led. Since you plan to run 2 leds in parallel you might want a 10k to 30k resistor.
What emitter and batteries are you using? How are you measuring?
18ga silicone wires fits and will give high output.
No I haven’t, since i dont have the translucent switch yet but I will solder the led tomorrow.
I am still using the original Convoy L6 NW emitter and Efest 4200mah batteries (metallic purple). Measured using a single piece of 11cm 10awg cable at the tail and DC clamp meter (Uni-T UT210e)