I was hoping intl-outdoor would come with a great drop-in with different tints and good drivers. Ordered my first drop-in from manafont the other day. The popular ultrafire 3 mode. Hopefully i get lucky in the lottery from manafont and get i hard driven XM-L. Currently have one host on the way, and might be getting some Solarforce hosts. Highly considering their combo kit with their black L2P and L2T.
Anyway, I have some questions.
1. I have never owned a neutral or warmer tint led light. Highly considering to buy the NW drop in from intl outdoor. Would you guys say that the NW T6 3C is a little warmer compared to a "normal T6"? (I own a Trustfire C8 with XM-L T6).
2. What is the "normal T6"? Is there a "normal T6"? Because most XM-L lights these days use the T6. And I understand that normal T6 have a cool white light? But you can also get a warmer neutral version of it (T6 3C)?
3. I have seen the estimated output for the different XM-L leds here. From what I can read at 3A. The warm T3 7B should theoretically output about 715-780 lumen. The NW T6 3C should output 910-975. And the the U2 1B 975-1040. If I understand correctly that is the maxium lumen output on the LED if it gets that current. So if tailcap reading is 3A you would normaly subtract like 10-20% depending on the driver and tailcap??
4. Intl outdoor says 820lumen at 3a (for every led type). But depending on what type of led u get it with, there will be difference in light output right? The T3 is about 750 lumen@3a and the U2 is about 1000@3a. So the U2 should be about 25% brighter on 3A compared to the warm T3?
Hope someone can explain these things, and correct my view if it is wrong. Would be nice to know these things. :)
That is an awesome drop in, if I didn't have so many I would buy it just for the driver. I am guessing since it has thermal protection it uses a Nanjg driver with a custom program. I don't know of any other budget drivers with that capability. The price is really good for what you are getting. I will patiently wait until someone reviews this.
I can't help but feel like Hank is listening to people like us. I'd be in for 2 of these, except I just (and I mean, 2 days ago just!) ordered 2 nw xmls and 2 3A drivers from Ric.
I am sure that he reads posting here often and probably even the makers on taobao of some of the stuff he offers. Otherwise information changes on the IO webshop would not coincident so many times with BLF postings. BLF is like a free market study for the smaller shops. It's not very surprising at all, when you think about it....