Pulled a 22mm linear driver (14x7135 I think?) from my Enogear EC21/Nightwatch NS02 and put it in my Jaxman Z1 with a white flat. I magic smoked it on the first try too from over tightening the ring above LED.
~4.85A tail reading for 384kcd measured at 5 meters.
I wonder what results will be if these high cd flashlights measured at 15-20m. Just my mind working. if you read a super range thrower at 5m a very nice number but at 15-20m read much lower numbers you read wrong. Because the beam focused to 5m. And at bigger distances it will widening out and loose intensity. I always measure throwers at 10-15-20-25m and try to focus the light to get the highest intensity at 20-25m readings.
I’ll try to do that when I have the time. I managed to get 1600m. I compared the beam to an Olight M3X and it blew that out the water. Also compared it to a Nitecore TM38 and beam was still tighter though.
I put one in a Supfire F5, that was housing a dedomed XP-G S4 2B before. It did exactly 100kcd with the XP-G2. It is not a well-known light, a well-built 18650 zoomie with effectively 26mm plastic lens, here’s a pic.
Everything was done thermally as good as possible in this host. I first removed both spring bypasses and then added them again one by one because I hoped to get into the 130’s kcd. I ended with 120 kcd at start, 110 kcd at 30 seconds (with 500lm flood, 165lm spot). Still an improvement over the dedomed S4 2B, and certainly a better tint and beam shape, and contrary to the S4 2B the throw will hardly go down when the battery drains.
Dang! I am buying new EDC but I need something that won’t turn on accidentally in my pocket. But now you came with 120KCD for this tiny zoomie and that is OMG :+1:
I think on one pic is seen that it does not has anodized tailcap tube and switch threads. When flashlight has anodized threads we can turn it on/off with twist to turn move or just unscrew tailcap slightly to prevent accidentally turning on.
i would like to buy a cometa and put this led in there. which driver would be best? and do i need to think about something else? just the host driver and led right?
I made a Cometa (from the recent trash sale on BG) with a KW CSLNM1-TG led (on stock 20mm Manker board soldered to pill) and 12-chip biscotti driver, it is doing 4.14A and 299 kcd at 30 seconds (and pretty steady at that).
I hope that the wavien collar that I will try to add next works well on this led.
It is full moon now so I could not resist the moon beam shot:
I wonder, how well would smaller reflector lights throw with this emitter!
For example, S2+ with SMO reflector and this led, and lets say 5A driver, what throw would we get!
Btw, I measured the hotspot of my Cometa mod at 8800K. I checked a LX1010B luxmeter against my Mobilux class A luxmeter, for this hotspot my LX1010B (that for neutral leds under-reads) measures 340 kcd which is more than 13% high (LX1010B calibrations may vary )