ha, you reminded me that I have a glass lens from a project years ago! found it, and was excited to test it, but it did not work out well. the focus was lost mid way thru extending the tube.
the stock lens is in the middle and is not glass, it is the biggest lens of all my zoomies.
I like most everything on this host except for the pill, the thermal path needs a lot of work.
It has a nice wide beam and still puts out some lumens, not as much as a quad or triple but is has more “throw”. It pulls 8.45A from a fresh VTC6, settling @ a mere 3.22A after stepdown.
I also swapped the emitter in a Sofirn SP31 to a XP-L HD 5A3 :
As probably most of us I was always using 1D’s or 1A’s for dedoming. As I have replaced the 3D xp-g2’s in my Emisar D4 for 5D I had some 3D’s to play with.
I dedomed them and really like the tint. Put one in my otr i3 and one in my B158. Liking this much much better
Swap stock LED from Thrunite Ti3 with Nichia 219x from Fasttech. Pics taken using same setting and manual white balance, hopefully they show the actual tint colors.