This is an important review. I don't regret buying the Dry but if I had it to do over again, I would gladly pony up the extra $20 for this 4-cell powerhouse. This form factor is hard to make pretty but the King almost manages to do it. I love how the tube is cut round for the batteries and the side switch is to die for.
Better looks, higher quality and the piece de resistance; mo lumens!
No, you would just cycle through low mode. The strobe mode is sort of hidden.
Although, I don't like the concept of cycling through any modes to turn a flashlight off. It seems clumsy to me. And with these budget lights I'd rather not have an electric switch. It just seems like there's one extra thing to go wrong.
IMO 5.2A = 1.73A per LED(not include other factor ),still too far from 2000 OTF. May be something wrong about measurement or anything both Sky Ray King and DRY .
Someone measured Sky Ray King is around 1600-1800 OTF.
1.73A in bare lumens would be 600, for the XM-L T6 efficiency bin. So emitter lumens. Now we need to take into the consideration the reflector and the glass. That will cut a certain percentage from the light. I would go with POK's 1600 lumens estimation.
I re-did my wiring for current measurement and got now results from 7.0A up to 7.7A, which might be nearer the real value. [I'm still not sure about the wiring.. It might still restrict the current a bit?]
Holding the wires and operating camera at the same time isn't easy, but here's some kind of proof of the measurement:
And as I was at it, I thought that I would measure the beam intensity at the same time (@4m, calculated back to 1m):
Part of DRY's sag may by battery related though, it's direct drive, whereas I think I've seen an image of the KING's driver which has coils, so I guess it uses three buck drivers and thus is regulated.