Maxtoch M1 Archer NOW AVAILABLE/// Totally Dedomed SST 40 /// Full Review

649kCd is not 804m of ANSI throw… might be a typo

800m from the specs = 160 kcd, which is very good for a C8 size flashlight.

This light looks much nicer than a C8, performs best in this form factor, has a simple and useful clicky UI and being a Maxtoch must be very robust, and personally I like the rubber grip ring. It is nice to see that Maxtoch does not go with the flow of e-switches and fancy UI’s. :+1:

Thanks for the review!

OK guys my apologies ……Kind of brain dead last night /early this morning as I had been up for about 27 hours.

I posted my figure of my number that is used to get the throw (square root of 649000 is 805.6 meters of throw)

The actual number should be 162.25Kcd for the lux.

Lack of sleep is a serious number scrambler, it’ll get ya every time! Coffee, bold strong coffee. :smiley:

6490 (meter lux reading on x10 setting was 649) x 25 (5M measure distance) = 162,250 (162.25Kcd) for 805.61M throw. :wink:

I need one of these. :smiley: lol Seriously though, I like the look and size, like the reflector, might change the driver but I really like the overall form factor a lot. Thanks robo…

Thanks djozz for your figuring and also Dale…………

I had the right number in the wrong place and without writing down anything the other day when I did the figuring I got the numbers mixed up in my head.

The 6490 was my meter reading the other day and it was a x 10 factor , so the throw and kcd numbers you 2 guys figured were right on the money.

Apologies………corrected in post #16

I was wondering why you didn’t show up on this thread yet… I knew this light was your type of light. I’m assuming this will dethrone your nitecore p30 now, but not your olight m2xsut

Look again. 30 minutes on high discharges the battery, a lot. By 41m the low voltage protection has kicked in.

I made room for this last night by giving my Shooter 2X with sliced and diced SST-40 to my nephew. Now there’s an empty space that needs filling. Gotta love it when a plan comes together… :smiley:

Oh, and as it so happens I have a lone LED4Power driver sitting around waiting for a home that is just coincidentally a 9A variant. Man it don’t get no better than that! lol

(tangent, sorry) so a chemical dedome of the SST-40 is possible; I wonder what the secret sauce is…

Has anyone ever tried xylene on either SST-x0 or Cree domes?

Edit: apparently it’s very similar to toluene which I know has been used successfully on Cree emitters. Maybe worth a try.

162kcd and 1,550 lumens is very impressive considering it’s about the size of a D1S and GTMini. Do you know the price and when it will be available?

Kawi has tried just about everything, from Toluene to racing fuel and a lot in between. He’s killed probably 20 or 30 emitters. :confounded:

Unlikely, but Maxtoch isn’t big enough to be able to special order a batch without domes, are they? Would a manufacturer such as Luminus even entertain such a request?

Maxtoch is big, a military and police supplier. They ARE actually de-doming these themselves, the evidence is there on the emitter. They have done so on the Shooter before.

Maxtoch may be a lot bigger than your are thinking. They do large military and police orders all the time.

They have done all their own dedomes on the shooter 2X and M24 lights in house.

Not a small company by any means , just not a big name as far as the general public such as Thrunite , Olight , Fenix and such.

Looks like Dale was quicker on the draw than me again too…….lol

:+1: roger that

The moon seemed to be waning last night so I fed it to help it burst through the clouds…

:smiley:

XSword to the rescue!

Pretty cool picture there