Okay, I just got mine with the XP-G2s (or -G3s, whatever). Hmm, looks like the whole square is phosphor-coated, so -G3.
Anyway, wow! Nothing wrong with mine. So, nope, I ain’t gonna be taking it apart.
Seriously, youse can dissect yours to your hearts’ content, but unless there’s some pressing reason to do so, and risk shearing off any LEDs, I ain’t a-doing it.
Gotta admit, this is my first triple, and I was expecting 3 separate but overlapping beams, loads of artifacts, but this is nice. Looks like one tight beam for what’d be 3 grouped 20mm reflectors.
Okay, due to the G3, I got the expected color-shift in the beam. Neutral hotspot, cool spill, strong yellow corona. Would G2s be a better choice?
Nicely lubed tailcap threads, buttery smooth, not scratchy at all. Nice firm click of the switch. Guessing it’s easily over 1000lm with a 30Q, via ceiling-bounce tests.
On high, it gets very warm, very fast, so it feels like there’s a good thermal path in there. Anyone check for thermal goop? I forgot to look at earlier posts before writing this…
Anyway, I’m suitably impressed. I was expecting a not-as-tight beam as a regular big-reflector C8, but this is… nice! It’s kinda like a domed XM-L/-L2 in a C8. Quite a bigger hotspot than my XP-E2 C8, of course, but it’s still very usable. For more throw, I’d stick with an XP-L HI (or extremely high-strung XP-Gwhatever), but as-is, this trip XP-G3 is quite good.
Best of all, the UI doesn’t piss me off. I almost cringed flipping it back to low, almost expecting the blink-on-low to switch 3/5 modegroups, but… nothing! Low, medium, high, yeah, doubleclick for strobe, but usable modes!
Damn, I can’t find a single thing wrong with it.
(Well, okay, aside from the misbehaving G3s as far as color-shifts.)