I do not. Buying some 30Q now. Also just bought a Q8 that will be here Saturday. I figured the wire length would be an issue but I am not going to shorten them until I get my emitter hopefully tomorrow.
Sounds good, the Q8 is not the best comparison around since it is an FET driver but should give us a ballpark with a stock light to compare. I still have a stock Q8 here (well I reflashed the firmware), I still have not decided what LED’s I am going to put in it long term.
Let us know how the new LED goes in the L6 with the shorter wire length. I am curious what kind of current you are getting with how it is setup now as well.
Got a mess of stuff in this week, the maukka lights, 2x Manta Ray C8.2, 2x Cat V6’s LED Lenser P14.2 and some Vape CellVTC5D’s very cute zippered battery cases, oh and Hanks Quad boards and optics, named after a girl or something like that? Then working on the M1 “the Grater” Quad, running ragged!
My T/A tube is right on the money with the maukka certified lights, well it was something like the little light was 3lms. High and the S2+ 4lms. Low, close enough for me, really happy with everything.
The 2 V6’s were 1730-1744lm stock, with the stock battery @ 4.21amps of the Sky RC charger.
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Starting at around 6:10 Matt is using the TA Lumen Tube. He places the lights directly on what appears to be the first set of diffusers. Is this the “proper proceedure”?? From what I remember reading it is not.
But my question is this. If the light is placed on the first set of diffusers and the tube is then calibrated using maukka’s calibration lights , will the tube yeild the correct readings?
Got my Maukka calibrated and tested lights in today.
cw S2+ — 283.3 Maukka lumens — 288 TA Tube lumens
So that’s less than 2% out. That’s fantastic really, I don’t know how you’d expect much better.
The package also contains a tested BLF348, neutral white and only a few dozen lumens, but it reads a bit further out so far. I’ve not recharged the cell though, so I’m withholding those numbers until I’ve eliminated any other cause for them to be low. Its not fair to report them at this point.
So far though I’m very pleased with these results.
The above comments are correct. That tube is one a made a good while back. The readings I got for that light should be quite close, but the testing you saw in the video is basically the only testing I have done since my Maukka lights arrived, so don’t take it as absolute truth :innocent:
Actually they showed up a little bit ago but I have not had time to mess with them yet. I am hoping to get some time next week to test them out if all goes well.
I got my CW S2+ calibration light from Maukka yesterday.
It turns out my TA Lumen Tube was one of those outliers. It was reading 7% too high.
So I was able to adjust my correction disc orientation plus add a little piece of matte tape to get it to read dead on. :+1:
I also tested my calibration light in my JoshK sphere to find out it was reading 6.3% too high.
This is all pretty surprising. I thought both my spheres measuring so close to one another meant they were pretty close to accurate. Turns out they were both a little on the high side.
Yep, welcome to the world of DIY calibration. This does not surprise me honestly, this is why I said that with the afer-market correction discs 7% was my tolerance of choice since that was the highest I saw just dropping the discs in.
Like Djozz said, “The man with only one watch always knows what time it is.”