Hi all,
The new version of L6 is out 
Nice light and video, seems like a bright light
Matt, which XHP70.2 tint do you find most eye appealing? Im considering getting one on sale, how good is the 5000k version? Im not planning dedoming, but the resistor wire bypass looks easily doable.
I just bought mine with regular 70, OP reflr. I ordered the SMO separate. I have bunch of 70.2 laying around, will do the mods to emitter and driver. Need the the throw, but I do not like the darker yellowish tint.
Well done! As always, thank you for a great analytical review and comparison. Is Simon still running the game?
I am partial to cool whites myself, but 5000k has a nicer blend on it. They are both P2 bin so if you have an inclining toward neutrals I would go with that.
Indeed.
Thanks for the review! How soon can we expect X70 review?
I just ordered a L2 with XPL HI. What current do you consider max for this and is 0 ohm in parallel also ok? A wire in parallel?
Does anyone have a lumen chart? What does it settle down to after turbo and when?
Probly this week, but if not next week. I’m already working on it.
I don’t have an L2 so I can’t say for sure.
There is no turbo timer on the L6
L2 uses another driver(ld-25)
You can direct drive a xpl hi.
So basically shorting the resistor is ok?
Not necessarily. You can direct drive an XPL hi on one 26650, but two would certainly kill it.
Thanks for pointing that out. So not a good idea. What would be a good amperage to shoot for that leaves the 2 cell option open but gives the L2 some oomph. Also, are low and med. affected with this mod?
I like to run XPLHI at around 5 amps myself. You can go a bit higher, but it gets hard to sustain the higher output.
In TAs chart you can see he is getting some gains at 6 amps but basically nothing after that, and this is a control test, so if you drive the LED at 6 amps for 10 minutes you might actually have lower output than if you were at 5.5A for 10 minutes because of the heat.
I got my L6 with OP two days ago, just was ok, it did I think 3200L’s. I swapped out the OP for an SMO, ditched the 70 for 70.2. 65k, bypassed both spings with 20awg wires, change the power wires for 20awg, and just straight bypassed them BA sense r’s with braided wire. 6910 Lumens.
No stepdown, works very well and runs cooler on the handle than my Wowtac A4, MF04S modded, and blfgt70 after 2 mins on highest.
BTW, check your bargain L6, mine came from banggoods fp’d up at the head. 1. screw hole that holds down mcpcb, one was larger than the other and had no threading in it. It served no purpose. 2. Top of threads on the head was damaged, looked as though it fell at the factory on dull sword then banged on the assembly table to ovalize it for good measures to maybe prevent it from sealing out moisture just before they screwed on the lid.
What different of boost current between stack R100 resistor and wire bypass ?
Well I guess you mean stack like in iHop 3 pan cakes, lol.
Stack of 3 r100 would be .0033ohms or just .003ohms vs. 0 ohms, stock was .082x2= .04, correct me if I am wrong.
I was also pulling 11amps at the tail cap from two efest high drain and around 4.5 amps stock at the tail cap.
XHP70.2 should be fine but is the driver work properly at 11A?
this should have been driven to more then 4300 only, why only so little? i think the host can easy handle 5000+ and more no ? looking mats video its only about a 500 difference in lumens vs the old xhp70 emitter.