This is annoying! Now they have 7 LEDs and it's gonna be difficult to resist, factoring that you can mod it with the driver from Kaidomain!!!
Wow. I wonder how hard they drive each XM-L? Most mega-leds Ive seen like this drive at a paltry 1.5 amps or so.
Very cool looking light and wouldn't mind having it myself. The one thing I did notice is the weight without batteries is 400g. Hopefully most of that weight will be for a very good brass pill. The pill on my Ultrafire UF-T70 weighs a whopping 230g. It would be nice if this light used as great a pill as the Ultrafire.
There needs to be a smiley of a jaw dropping, would be very appropriate here.
if this is the first 7 X xml, i think keygos trying to be a important brand like Ultrafire and trustfire with in chinese brands. Unless its not a false attempt to make this design :)
Very heavy and floody...I can pass, though I'd darn near pay to be there when one of you buys it and fires it up! :p
so we'll see 9xml (budget, not >$500) before....?....August
It looks just like the tr-j12 and i asked another seller about the + button's of the batteries and they said they do not stick out from the sides of the battery they might be like king kongs no good for series use with out mods ? ill wait for a trustfire version i think
I have a feeling that it is driven the same as the TR-J12. Coz it can use 2 x 18650 which is the same as the TR-J12. At such drive levels, there really is not much difference in OTF lumens between 5 and 7 XM-Ls.
Assuming it's the same driver as the TR-J12, is there a better driver available now that would make this light a wow factor type of light? (safely) Or do we have to wait until another company produces it with a better (new) driver?
we won't know until someone measures the this, and the trj12...
Glad you metioned it though - I have the KD 9xml driver and was going to pot it but I'll take good measurements first.
1" copper pipe is a perfect pot for it.
Very nice find.
Assume each LED is actually driven at close to 3A this is close to 12.6 watts each XM-L = 88WATTS
With 12.6V input under load less than 12V. Say 12V to be nice.
Say 12V input and 7.35A = 88 WATTS
With just 4800mAh (more like 4000mAh) you will get amazing OTF lumens for 20~30 minutes of 3 IMR 26650 cells.
Good Hosts for a copper heatsink build and nice U2 LED of the highest bin in 6500 tint.
bigC
That's what i am hoping for too. (willing to pay 100 bucks for that for the flashlight and if replacement drivers are available then it'd be way cool LOL!) But likely to be 99.9999% impossible...sigh.
There is no way any driver of such size (say 30-35mm) can handle the heat, and most of such stuff are not super efficient anyway + bad heatsinking compared to how the emitters/MCPCBs are heatsinked (like your Varapower Turbo, no driver and heatexchanger and stuff). Take 90% eff which is already very good, that's 8.8 watts of pure heat, like a XM-L gunned to the limit.
Even 40W is already a wee bit pushing it. (eg DRY)
It will be more like 1 amp per led
someone be the pig on this one and review it. It looks great. :)
Benckie -
All you have to do is go to the website and scan down to the "Features" section and you'll see:
- This TRUSTFIRE torch uses of a 7x CREE XM-L T6 LED, producing very bright beam of light.
The caps on TrustFire is for emphasis. I wonder if someone at Keygos goofed - or if they are trying to gain some credibility by including the TrusFire name???
Pulled the trigger / took one for the team.
Hope it's worth it. ;)
Thanks....do try it with 3 x 18650 as well as 2x18650. Do you have a lux meter? I hope that it's > 3000L OTF, then i'll get one.
I cant wait for you to post pics on it already. It looks tempting, but never heard of the brand. still a noob at these things..