I have not timed it myself but I am guessing around ~60-90 seconds depending on what you calibrate the thermal settings to in turbo.
With the ramp at 50% you should get about twice that or a bit more.
It gets properly hot for sure but it can also shed the heat surprisingly well. I have a “Mega M6” I build and it gets hot faster and stays hot much longer even though it is almost half the lumens.
The nice thing is you can simply turn down the power if the heat is too much.
Per Newlumen’s ceiling bounce comparisons, his MT09R TA is 24k lumens relative to Skylumen measurements. I think the MT09R TA not only beats those in price, I think it beats them in quality considering you get to choose better looking 80 CRI NW tint and a better ramping UI. In contrast, the Acebeam X80 UI is just awful.
And guys getting approval to keeping the warranty was extremely hard. But as long as the emitter swap is done by TA and is the correct type of LED 70.2 for a 70.2 model than the warranty stays good.
I also still have 1 35 high. It already has the new TA driver installed and is ready to go. It is a CW version and I can ship it to TA as well for an emitter swap if you so choose.
Please do post them.. Everyone needs to know that this driver you have designed has made this light a major player and at the currant price no one can beat it when it comes to price and performance.
LOL I am waiting to see you order come across my screen... I will be shipping these lights to TA for any emitter changes as well as the driver install Thursday and Friday. Larger bulk shipments cost me much less than shipping them one at a time...
Nope not at all! Quote all you want. It would be very useful for newcomers that don’t want to read through hundreds or thousands of posts get a cliff note of this thread.
@Texas Ace, why not take a Blue version? Blue is best color, not green.
BTW, is there a way we could mod the TA driver to support 9V emitters, like the new 149AM? Would be quite interesting to see if that was possible with the XHP35 version.
And come on guys take you face from your palm and get these while you can. I am dead serious when I say that these are all of the Blue and Green lights left at all. And the factory will not be making these colors available again for the MT09R.
I almost forgot. This is also the only MT09R lights I can order at all for about 6 to 8 more weeks until the new driver is complete and being factory installed.
So when these are gone so is this price. In 6 to 8 more weeks when they begin shipping the lights with TA's new driver Haikelite will give me no choice in retail pricing. It is called MOP pricing and basically gives the factory the right to say what a dealer has to charge for a product, This is a very common practice.
So the units I have left are not only the last of these 2 colors but the last that I will be able to sell at 40 percent below retail...
Yes, the blue is very nice as well but don’t think I can afford one of each and I do not have any green lights, I used to have some blue ones (although not this nice of a blue).
Electrically it is possible although the 149AM uses a different footprint and I am not sure how you would actually mount the LED in the flashlight. The pads also look very small, I doubt it will preform as good when overdriven as well sadly just from a quick glance.
That was for the group buy only.. I just talked them into selling me the ones left over from the original group buy... Dale says it just costs too much to mass produce that many different colors.
I just had an order come in... I need you to please send me a PM and let me know for sure that you want it shipped to TA. I am pretty sure you do but I have to make sure,