^ get used to it. they are UBER slow
thats why i try to stick with manafont and DX.
my two favs. tho DX is REALLY REALLY slow lately. but i expect that this time of year
Definitely an XM-L in it -has arrived quite quickly.
Unfortunately I don't have a P60 light with me to test it in.
Hopefully mine will get here today and I can then pick it up at the post office on Friday morning. Looking forward to hearing what you think about it. It's not like the KD XP-G drop-in where the reflector partially blocked the LED, is it?
Went home at lunchtime to empty the assistant before she emptied herself on the carpet.
So, as you do, I picked up a few P60 hosts and some charged 18650s
Don't have the lightbox and meters here but, at first sight it is brighter tan my previous brightest P60, the M-bin MC-E that came with the WF-501 from DX. Since this dropin cost more than that light and its dropin it ought to be good.
I put it in a new-style WF-504B body i got from the Manafont offer. It is a very poor design on heat-sinking grounds, the old 504B was better. As usual I wrapped the dropin in enough aluminium foil to make it difficult to push the thing into the throat of the light.
There are some artefacts at the edge of the beam from the bezel ring - I'll try it in a Solarforce body with a flat bezel ring for the tests.
Beam colour is my favourite vanilla colour, maybe a tiny fraction bluer than my all-time favourite in the (lost :( ) Trustfire F22. It is certainly a nicer colour than the M bin MC-E.
Will get numbers in about 6 hours' time.
And photos, photos ... please......
Hi and welcome to BLF Corvette6769! : )
strange... new-style WF-504B body and bad heatsinking. I got two along with 2 fake solarforce L2's and a few other (the commonly called skyray) and it seems it does the job somehow equally good. It does look worse for heatsinking i would agree but the body temperature with foil is on par with fake solarfarces. Upon disassembling the heated dropin's there was no way to tell which one was warmer. Maybe you got a old style 504B that is way better than all my p60 hosts combined. One wonders...
Not trying to defend manafont but i got the body purely based on aeasthetcs because it is more appealing to L2 and clones to me. Have not found a flaw yet. Perhaps antiroll capability...
i get payed tomorrow... will be ordering a flashlight (not drop in style) and a few of those XM-L leds
still awaiting a 14mm board
Ceiling beamshot in new style 504B. The XM-L is on the left, the right hand one is a low voltage Solarforce single mode R2 dropin in an L2i with an 18650. Yes, the hotspots are burned out - this is just a quick shot before I take the dog out.
The odd shape of the XM-L beam is due to the bezel ring on the 504B.
Throw at 1 metre is 5250 - you can see from the beamshot how huge the hotspot is.
It is snowing quite hard just now which might make for interesting beamshots later on.
The colour on the XM-L hotspot sure looks nice! Looking forward to some real world photos : )
5250?! Is that the same measurement that gave 3240 on the MC-E M bin? (edit: no, I was getting throw mixed up with lux). Of course, it's a given that they sent you the best one they had and all subsequent ones are going to be garbage. Sounds really great so far though. Do you have a current draw on it? LED is secured well?
Wow...
Wow...
I had to go and get the dog a new eating bowl. The city is gridlocked, but I'll do some testing once I've eaten - it has taken me more than 2 hours to get back from the dog dish shop about 3 miles away.
Problem is the rural hinterland shoppers who infest the city at this time of year. They tend to drive extremely slowly in the middle of whatever road they are holding up and tend to be erxtremely aggressive drivers as well.
Add to this a blizzard and the rush-hour and the conditions get really bad.
And my assistant threw up all over the back seat of my mother's new car. The new dropin will certainly get some testing while I clean the seat.
You've been on a real lucky streak lately with cars and weather . . .
Also, like to know how well the modes are spaced and if the light has memory. You know, while you're in the car, cleaning up.
Couldn't face cleaning the seat just yet. I'd made a mistake with the throw numbers - it was on medium, not high. The throw number I'm still finding hard to believe.
| Lightbox | ||
| Light | Battery | Immediate |
| KD XM-L Dropin High in L2m flat bezel | 18650 | 3160 |
| KD XM-L Dropin Medium in L2m flat bezel | 18650 | 1250 |
| KD XM-L Dropin Low in L2m flat bezel | 18650 | 125 |
Same meter, same conditions as the MC-E. I'd better go and see to the car seat before I play any more..
But first I put the details into the Google Docs spreadsheet
Oh my god! 567 lumens on med mode!
How about the heat on MAX after 2 minutes Don???
Imprehesive!!!!!!
Can you measure current draw on HIGH and MED, when time permits? thanks!