Texas_Ace MT09R Modding thread, 20k+ lumens, 80CRI, can start fires? Yes please.

You stole the idea for my follow up video lol.

Most likely will still do it, just cause. It is fun setting stuff on fire for some reason.

Damn, I hope you do!
I am fresh in this hobby, but persoally, i would buy all the lights you would make!
As a matter of fact, I am just now trying to get my hands on one of these MT09R’s, since you upraded them :slight_smile:

LOL we still have to stay with the please don't try this at home...

I honestly just wanted to see if the stock NW emitters would do it as easily. I know what the output I am getting is so I was pretty sure that it would work without a problem... Honestly it sets it off much faster than I had though it would. I think we timed it to around 15 seconds and there was flames.

Okay guys I have spoke to Dale and I will be posting tomorrow what we have agreed on. I hate that I an keeping you all hanging for 24 more hours but I have had to arrange shipping to a different location which is a totally different story.

It does look like I will easily be able to cover anyone that is still interested and I will do the official post tomorrow of exactly what should be shipping to me.

Thanks for the encouragement. Never know what the future may hold.

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Subscribing, as I am getting TA to mod the MT03 II using the same driver.

I found some new LED options at another supplier that are a little more expensive but if people wanted them I could order them as well since they are interesting.

XHP35 HD E4 bin (highest bin possible) 5000k

XHP35 HD D4 bin 4500k 80cri - These are what I plan to use in my own MT09R xhp35 light

After shipping and tax these would be $30 for a set.

These will not fit in the mt09 but I have not seen anyone use them yet, I got one before and did some quick tests before I managed to kill it when putting an optic on.

XHP50.2 H2 bin 5000k 90cri. I was really impressed with the tint on this LED when used with a TIR optic, a nice bright white.

Also going to special order some 90cri 4500k XHP50.2, it will take a few months but they should be my dream LED’s. Gonna order some extras to sell as well. Just not sure what the demand will be. I have already had interest in about 6-8 of them so thinking I will order 20.

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Hey guys.

Okay after over a week of negotiating I finally have some MT09R 70.2 lights on the way.

This was not at all easy to accomplish. The company did not want to ship out any at all until after the new driver has been completed and installed in the lights.

That will still be several weeks from now, so I have been working on this for the last week and here is the arrangement I was able to finally accomplish.

First, I would like to ask if we could all no longer say modify when we are referring to the driver. Yes, TA is hand assembling these drivers himself (Thanks very much for that by the way) but, the design will be exactly the same once Haikelite begins producing the drivers themselves in 5 possibly 6 more weeks. So, the driver actually will be the same as the stock driver. I had some one mention to me on YouTube that my video was a modified version and it is not at all. My personal light even still has stock NW emitters. Haikelite has contracted TA for this driver design and as long as the exact plans are followed the drivers should be the same. So as far as the driver is concerned it really is not a mod we are just lucky enough to have the designer building us enough of them for us himself.

Now emitter swap out sure that is totally a modification.

Now on to the good parts.

I am only getting 30 units total and only 2 colors. The 2 colors are Blue and Green.

I will be getting 15 of each of them and all are shipping with only NW Neutral White emitters which actually perform far better than the CW Cool white emitters did. The reason is just as TA suspected they are a much higher quality. I just wanted to be sure everyone knows this while making decisions.

TA naturally has access to even higher bin and quality emitters that still perform even better than the stock NW.

My personal 70.2 for now I have left the stock NW emitters and I am easily getting 20k lumen. TA has a wide variety to offer that are getting into 22k lumen and a little above.

I am not sure how well everyone understands wholesale, but I am sure that TA can agree with this. By them only allowing me to order 30 units total instead of 75 to 100 units I lose about a 30 percent discount I would be getting for purchasing more units. So, the price will be a little more but really not much more and still nowhere close to full retail.

Being that all of the lights are the same except for the color choice the price will be the same. And Dale is going to go nuts when he reads this. The price is $120.00 and that includes my shipping costs to TA. After shipping I will clear about 14 to 18 dollars per unit and PayPal still gets a nice little cut of that so that will put me closer to 12 per unit.

All of this shipment will come to me without drivers. I saw no need at all to have the old driver installed only to have it removed.

You can still request shipping directly to you and order the driver from TA and you can install in yourself if that is an option some of you may want.

Also I do have I think 4 or 5 of the original drivers in my repair stock if someone wants to just have the original driver installed.

I already have the lights entered into my stores inventory and it is simple there are only 2 choices. The color, green or blue. All emitters are the same.

Please make sure that you send me a PM or email at hesaidshesaidsales@charter.net and let me know where you want your light shipped. Please include your full name and address as it will show on your PayPal account.

I will begin shipping all orders out on the same day which is the 18th. That is as fast as I could get them here and that cost a ton by the way.

If I have forgotten anything please feel free to ask but, I think I have covered most of what may be asked at least my part of it lol.

By the way I asked Texas Ace about international shipping and he is willing to ship outside of just the US and Canada provided the customer pays the shipping. So now a lot of you guys that wanted in on these deals can be included as well...

Here is the URL directly to the purchase page https://hesaidshesaidsales.com/shop?olsPage=products%2Fhaikelite-mt09r-triple-cree-702

Ok, some very sad news on my end today.

I was celebrating a family birthday party today and the LED emitters were supposed to be delivered, I also had several packages that were supposed to be picked up.

After literally shipping and receiving well over 30k packages at this location and no one in the neighborhood ever having had a package stolen it seems someone chose today to break our perfect record.

The tracking number shows that the LED’s were delivered but there is no box anywhere in sight. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Then to add insult to injury the packages I was shipping have not had any tracking updates yet. It is possible it is just the normal delay in the usps system but I won’t know until tomorrow.

I honestly have no idea what is going to happen with this, Fedex is running a trace and will talk to the driver in the morning and I am going to talk to the mail lady tomorrow.

The LED order was $400 and I was shipping 2 mt09R’s today + some other stuff. Needless to say I am praying that the packages were picked up successfully and that fedex will cover the LED’s order.

I will keep everyone updated. I am now going to go drown my sorrows in birthday cake and try to heal my faith in humanity by remembering that humans invented cake.

I will finish the mods regardless, not to worry, I deliver on my promises. My profits should just cover a replacement order of LED’s

I hope you will get your led package and pray usps picked up the outgoing package. Finger crossed.

That’s bad news indeed! I’ve had situations like this before where tracking says it’s delivered to my house but it doesn’t show up until a few days later. Hopefully it’ll turn up later. Enjoy your birthday cake and family tonight and don’t think about it.

Would it be possible to see a video of both the xhp70 and xhp35 version?

There are videos on my YouTube channel and those were the previous drivers. I have 1 of the 35 high with version 1 of TA's driver showing a 822 yard shot lighting up a water tower.

That is sad and I think Fedex must take care of it.

I have had missing parcel too even though the system showed delivered. Luckily it was someone signed it but kept the parcel under his table for two weeks without telling me. The experience sucks even though mine was like usd50 order.

I took the camera out very early this morning and shot a little video footage of the 70.2 version with the final version of TA's driver and in my own light for now I am using stock NW emitters. a touch over 22k lumen.

I am sorry for some of the video being shot through a fence that should have been left open for me be someone dropped the ball and everything was locked. I will pick another area and shoot some more maybe tonight if there is a chance...

www.youtube.com/embed/h_UxJRRooKE

And here is the video footage of the 35 high using version 1 of TA's driver. Lux reading came out to over a 1k meter thrower.

The water tower you will see me shooting in the video is exactly 822 yards away measured with a professional range finder.

www.youtube.com/embed/-20uLlyhBrE

Yeah, I am waiting for fedex to get back to me now. I am hoping that the fedex driver simply didn’t deliver it since my truck was not in the driveway. He has been here enough to know that means I am not home.

On the plus side my outgoing packages are all ok and now have tracking updates, so that is a big load off.

Now I just have to sort out these LED’s, so there might be a few days delay on the modding while that is sorted out. I will keep ya’ll posted.

In the mean time I am going to go ahead and prep the lights by doing the spring bypasses and prepping the drivers for install so things will go quicker when the LED’s do show up.

The worst part if the violated feeling I get from this, I am seriously considering sticking a nice box out front today and parking my truck around the corner and seeing what happens.

I am glad outgoing packages made it through USPS… don’t worry about the led. You will get them.

Last year we had to go to camera's. It is much less expensive now than even just a year ago.

I can pull 4 cameras up on my mobile no matter where I am and can watch live. The recording unit has full terabyte of storage and each camera has a micro SD slot for up to 64 gigabytes each as back up. Totally wireless and less than 300 bucks now. When we put in ours it was almost double that.