Ehh… not so much for compact throwers, I think. The XHP35 HI does well with multiple 18650s and a huge reflector, but lights with only one Li-ion cell and a boost driver rarely make their advertised numbers with the XHP35. I don’t know of anything using the XHP35 HI that’s the size of a C8 and throws farther than a FET+XP-L HI C8, for example. Do you?
Note that advertising more throw is insufficient to satisfy my query; someone whose incentives align with the community more than the manufacturer must supply the numbers.
I said the XHP35 blows the other LED’s out of the water, that does not factor the driver into the equation.
The reason the XHP35 single cell lights underpreform up to now is that they all under-drive the XHP35 by a fair amount. The highest output boost driver I have seen was something like 1.25-1.5A output vs the 2.5-3A we want.
There are drivers in the works that will be able to do this but they are not ready yet.
I can get some readings but I swapped the LED in mine to a NW LED so it would not necessarily match what would be seen in the production version since the Vf varies among the LED’s.
If people really want to see I can check though.
I did test the lumen output before I swapped the LED and with the new TA sphere it read a bit over 1200 lumens.
His prototype had the thermal regulation set to off by default. It could of been changed in the menu as well but re-flashing ensured it was like the production lights will be.