I have a Sofirn SF30A on the way from Aliexpress because of this tread on TLF, I have a “spare” driver from a Jaxman X1S I plan to use with a XHP35 HD.
Thanks for the link, khas. I'd have preferred for those %@#@&$ not to “hide” the pictures.
Something is said about the led sitting 5mm “too low”, or the lens not being able to get close enough above the emitter, limiting flood. Don't know how do they solve that.
Mine isn't going to be fully modded “straight away”. As it comes from the warehouse I'll just put a dedomed emitter in it.
I'll probably go with an XHP35 in a near future, for now I'll just swap the stock XM-L2 with a dedomed XM-L2/XM-L, the stock driver isn't meant to handle high voltage emitters.
The XM-L I have is an old school emitter, produced maybe by the end of 2013, this means it can probably take some high current without blowing up.
I see the H2-C manages ≈2.5A in turbo at 12+V with ease and efficiency, at least as long as the input is 2S. How about stacking an R050 (or two R100s) in parallel with the stock ones? That would mean 3A for turbo, 2A after 60s stepdown. I'd just need a Sinkpad XHP70 6/12V MCPCB.
The thing I dislike about 12V XHP50/70 is that on all the DTP boards I have seen, the thermal pad is no longer isolated, and sits at the 6V midpoint of the series chain.
Most lights have the battery negative connected to the flashlight body, so if the thermal pad is not isolated, and the board is DTP, we need to worry about isolating the MCPCB from the flashlight body which can be a pain.
It can be alright if you use good isolated thermal pads (expensive), but won’t ever be as good as proper thermal paste or soldering. That’s why I don’t like running the XHP50 or XHP70 at 12V. Yes the problem of isolation can be solved, but there are very few benefits of running in 12V mode for flasglights so it makes it not worth it for me to worry about the isolation.
Ordered from LEDDNA once, the shipment took more than a couple months to arrive home.
By the way, ordered an H2-C, an XHP35 HI C2 3000K CRI85+ (according to datasheet), and a 4-pack of high drain Aspire 18350 1100mAh cells. For the ThorFire TA13, right. Gonna be a handsome aspherical thrower.
I am to mount an additional R100 on the sense resistor stack. This means 2.25A on turbo stepdown to 1.5A. How much effective throw is to be expected from it fellows?
So I somehow managed to break the UI on an H1-A today. One of the new ones I got yesterday from KD. I put it in an M2 quad host running 2S2P XPG3s.
Funny part is that this is the least modded driver I have, all I did to it was bypass the spring with solder braid, replace the stock output wires for 22AWG, and file the edge of the ground ring a little bit. Stock sense resistor and stock output voltage.
The boost converter is still working since the light turns on. I just only have one mode, which seems to be maybe 40% - 60% power. Definitely not full power as the light can run for a long time without getting hot.
I’ll pull it apart when I get a chance to investigate, for now it is at least a useable light.
I tried that as well and it still burned through. It was only pulling 12 amps at the time. Now that I’m pulling 17 amps I switched to regular wire. So far so good.
So my driver fixed itself overnight. It didn’t work when I used it last night, it sat untouched on my desk for about 24 hours, just picked it up and it works fine now.