NightWatch Avaritia NA40

Same thing in Portuguese :smiley:

yup, xhp50.2 would do maybe over 4000 lumen per led, so 3 led would be over 10000 lumen in theory
but finding or making the driver is pain in the @ss
so SST40 is more suitable for this light

Thank you! I went ahead and pulled the trigger on this one.

Try an “Arius” knife. I always register it as “Anus”. :person_facepalming:

I’m thinking swapping the 3x50.2 with 3x Nichia 144a 90CRI would have great results.

Maybe 3x LH351D 90CRI would perform almost as good too.

Anyone got one of these?

From my perspective a far more interesting question about this light is the power source. It is shown a single 26650 battery, and to deliver 6000 lumens, is going take 20 amps if not a little more, and there are not a lot 26650’s out there that can sustain 20 amps for a long period. The more output you want, such as from xhp50.2, the more power you need. 10,000 lumens is going to require 30+ amps, and if you thought 20 amps for a sustained period was difficult, 30 amps is much much worse, and in either case, the heat dissipation is going to be very big problem, very quickly. The Keeppower IMR 5200mah according to HKJ’s testing isn’t good for much more than 20 amps.

What diameter is the driver? I wonder if there is a Narsil driver that could fit…

Is the switch lighted?

This is not such a good cell for high drain due to its heavy voltage sag. Something like a Liitokala blue or black or a Shockli 5500 would be a lot better choice. The really hot ticket would be the Samsung 30T 21700 which can do 30A continous. Depending on the driver design, a too powerful battery might burn up the driver or emitter. More testing is needed.

Any pictures of the driver? If the button is seperate from the driver then I'm sure Lexel has a FET driver with Narsil that will fit.

There is a 6500K version and 7500K version. :confounded:

Well better than a 2500k and 3500k I reckon. At least we would be able to tell somethings lit up.

Yes, 2400 lumen would be it’s output in raw form. Output drops a bit once installed in a light.

In the video
Chris does not have an integrating sphere to measure with. He is using a ceiling bounce measurement and his correction numbers might be off a little.

I imagine 1800 to 1900 lumen is more realistic for OTF lumens. So this NA40 could in theory be doing 5500 lumen with a FET driver and good battery (not so much the KeepPower). 5000+ lumen is a realistic number to me. I’m curious to see output tests with a good battery.

Is it a triple xhp50.2?

For that light you would need a boost driver for sure and current designs are limited in output. The Acebeam EC65 is a quad xhp35-HI running a single 21700 cell. It can put out 3750 lumen. So right around the 45 watt range (Same as Lexels and Loneoceans boost driver limit). If you have 3 xhp50.2 in 6v parallel on a 45w driver and a good high drain cell you can expect a bit less output than the NA40, maybe 4000 lumen, but have it as steady output, where the FET driver immediately starts dropping voltage and output.

IDK, this xhp50.2 version sounds strange and there’s a reason we have not seen that style of light. Further investigation is needed.

I could only find info on the Nitewatch EC21 which is a single xhp50.2 rated at 2200 lumen at 3A.

It’s also made with the sst 40 or xpl-hi.

Then Nitewatch also has a xhp70 light that is rated at 3600 lumen at 4.8A.

I rcv'd mine last night. Measured 13.2A at the tail w/clamp meter on turbo (LK 5000 cell with a magnet on the Batt+ end), 5.45A on hi. There's 16 7135's and two FET's in parallel. FET's are used for turbo, max 7135's used for Hi mode. On turbo I measured 4,640 @start, 4,280 @30 secs, 36.5 kcd taken at 5M. It's a 14 pin MCU, ~21 ohm resistor from Batt+, then to a diode, then to pin #1 (PWR), pin #14 is GRND. Driver is 32.2 mm wide - I don't have any of that size, but enough cavity room to sandwhich one in.

Looks like a copper DTP, though I didn't verify it's a true DTP. Thermal grease pattern is a bit strange. Screw was attempting to hold it down or simply in position, but the screw wasn't threaded in the hole - odd. LED- wire is also oddly soldered but probably no loss's. I got 7,890-6,530 lumens on a triple SST-40 light, but used 4P 18650 35E cells in a bigger host (SP03), so could be the lumen #'s make sense. My modded C8F does about 5000 lumens @30 secs using XPL2 V6's and 19.1 amps using a VTC5D VapCell.

Springs are very stiff and copper look - suspect good quality so bypasses probably won't help much. Tail has no spring, but a simple ring (no pic). Stock LK cells rattle, but adding a thin magnet on the Batt+ end fixed it. Battery options are limited because of the weird tail end - circular contact area is too big for 18650's, batt length must be just right, etc.

It's a nice quality light - easy UI, nice FET/7135 driver design, thick shelf, copper DTP (probably), red and green LED's under switch (4 wires). The head has some weight to it which is a good thing. It seems like SS bezel - has weight.

Not liking the LED alignment pieces - little slop/play results in not centered though not sure if it cause any problems in beam pattern or output. 20 AWG wires, long to be able to pull out the driver. Clearance of PCMCB wire soldering is tight, so upgrading to 18 AWG could be tricky.

It seems like more amps should be possible with an LK - not sure if wires, springs, and batt magnet account for it all. Batt+ must pass thru the 2 spring charging board setup. In theory, triple SST-40's should out do triple XPL2 V6's. Could be restrictions with those FET's, driver layout, etc., as well, or maybe the LED alignment pieces could not be helping. The C8F is really a top shelf host, about perfect in many ways.

NOTE: driver retaining ring threads oppositely - CW to loosen

I hate to bring this up, and I don’t mean any ill will, but your using the Manxbuggy1 lumen tube, right? An educated guess looks like it could be reading 10% to 15% high. Some other Manxbuggy1 tubes seem to read about the same. This is a whole other topic, though. Sorry.

Back to this light, it’s quite possible that @30s it’s only doing roughly 3800 to 3900 lumen. This is much lower than spec. I was hoping for 5000lm at least, but I think that would require about 20A at the tail. (Maybe a Samsung 30T would get the job done?)

I have no idea on that driver spring, maybe it’s low resistance, maybe not. I would swap it with a longer known type of spring and do a bypass on it. That could eliminate 2 potential problem areas.

Their springs are very unusual. Like none I have run across before. Here is a picture from one of their 21700 single emitter lights I have. It’s very thick and very stiff material. The one I have is not a FET driver but I would definitely bypass this spring on a FET light. Regardless of how good the electrical properties of the spring are i’m skeptical of the coating (if there even is one). Seems like it could tarnish and create resistance over time. All in all though I like a lot of things this brand is doing differently even if they have some room for improvement they aren’t just copying the typical designs.

I've heard/saw some inkling of the high readings, but I find it hard to dispute Rick and Rodney's initial calibrations based on many high end commercial ANSI/NEMA FL-1 tested flashlights. My PVC lightbox is a manxbuggy1 original, and we worked together on the calibration, and even using the same exact flashlights. I'll grant you 10% is well within the tolerance, but I rarely, if ever, get a reading higher that claimed, usually lower, again, on name brand supposed FL-1 tested modern lights. I'm still using the same meter and occasionally regression test it to my old lights and still seems on. I hope I've been in the ballpark because the Q8 rating is based on my readings, and I thought djozz's readings and mine were close at the time.

The LK cells do pretty darn well, though I think the VTC5D is the current 18650/26650 king, edged out by the 30T though. I'l like to see what the 25S does, available here: https://www.18650batterystore.com/18650-p/samsung-25s.htm. The old Samsung 20R used to be the hot cell, and was hoping for a 30R or 30S for a long time, but it never happened.

I agree this light does much lower than spec'd. Seems they, like many, just make the #'s up. In theory, doubling up the FET's should do better but I never heard of those FET's before, so could be low performers. Also fairly long 20 AWG for 3 low Vf LED's will be a bottleneck, but maybe those springs are the bigger bottleneck - same here, never saw springs like that before.

I think I recognize that reflector. I got one like it from either Fasttech or Kaidomain to use in a 3xSST40 build. It’s been slow going because I couldn’t find an MCPCB with the right spacing, and my first pass at using small Sinkpads soldered to a copper disc went awry just before I was ready to reflow on emitters.

How does the beam look?

I just received the NA40 SE Updated version today and it already failed :cry:

I popped in a NOT fully charged Shockli 26650 and took a measurement with my calibrated TA lumen sphere at 3,800 lumens at turbo 0s. It’s definitely brighter than the TC20 and equal to my D4s XP-L HI 5D.

The problem is the flashlight doesn’t turn off even when I hold the button. I had to unscrew the battery tube and screw it back in a few minutes later for it to turn off properly. I then took the battery out to charge and was planning to take a lumen reading with a fully charged battery. To my surprise the light stays in dim mode and doesn’t turn off. I took out the battery and reinserted a few times and noticed the spring on the usb charger driver scratched up the battery pretty badly. The spring itself is also crushed (spring has almost no resilience). Now I’m left with an unusable light. Very disappointing because the light looks great and the finishing is very high quality. It also has good potential for modding since you can swap out the driver and still retain usb charging. Sigh….