Today I modded a Fandyfire SP02 with a sliced XHP70.2. I bought this light about 2 years ago to be a lightweight and compact thrower. It has a 63mm head with a ~53mm active reflector diameter. I think it has the same reflector as the HD2010 and Mitko’s budget thrower light. I had a dedomed XPL V6 in it that did around 240kcd. Then I modded my Emisar D1S with a 2mm white flat that had around the same throw (and almost as many lumens) in a lighter more compact package, so I thought of other things I could do with the Fandyfire.
The quality of the machining and anodization of this light seems pretty good to me. It came with your standard pill with a pretty thin shelf. I had destroyed this pill in the process of making the light into a Fresnel thrower. I made the current new pill back when I was in the machine shop making my 7xC8 light. You have to get this reflector down pretty low to get good focus. The MCPCB is 20mm. I used folded up copper tape to make thin contact extensions, then I covered them with the thick plastic gaskets you can get from mtnelectronics. These came with XP sized holes so I enlarged with an exacto knife. The reflector hole fits just about perfectly around the XHP70.2 so no centering ring was needed. The driver is a 22mm FET from mtnelectronics with just basic FW. I want TK’s crescendo on it but that is not an option from mtnelectronics for FET-only drivers, so this will have to do until I overcome the energy barrier to start flashing FW again.
I can’t take the tail cap off easily on this light so I haven’t measured the current. With 2 charged 30Qs the output based on a ceiling bounce is about 3.8x the output of my EE X6 with dedomed SST40 at ~8A, so in the area of 6600 lumens. I measured 175kcd. The beam profile looks like the EE X6 with dedomed SST40, but with ~1.3x larger diameter. I had been wanting to do a single sliced XHP70.2 mod and I’m pleased with this outcome. It really is a potent combination of output and throw when combined with a good-sized reflector.
I now have the light in shorty mode with 2x18350 Aspire 1100. The battery tube was not quite long enough, so I soldered some pieces of copper to the driver ground ring to effectively lengthen the compartment. Compared to 2x 30Qs it has about 87% of the output or around 5700 lumens. A nice light-weight and compact high-output thrower.
It improved the usability of the flashlight and also the luminous levels.
Maybe not the “throwiest” light in the category but for a 16340 flashlight with XPL-HI U6-1A, it reaches more than 200m in throw
Today I reworked my number 3 set of X6/X5 lights. The little copper X5 I put a White Flat in and it does 78.75Kcd pulling some 4.5A off an Efest 14500 cell. The X6 I had previously made a spacer for and built a triple with XP-L emitters, so today I pulled the 32mm Noctigon (reflowed onto the sink which was also reflowed into the copper pill) and used a T Pad with 3 SST-40’s. It’s making some 6200 lumens on an 30Q cell, at over 18A tail reading.
I like both, but the little X5 with White Flat is impressive!
I weighed a stock X6 with a cell in it at 6.16 oz, the X6 SS/Cu with a cell weighs a whopping 16.17 oz! After handling the SS/Cu triple the little stock light feels like it has no cell in it… lol
SST40 makes for such a good triple. They have the brighter N5 bin at KD with a lower Vf bin so it should pull even more current and be brighter. Unfortunately I just tested one and it performs identically to the N4 in output and voltage so no performance boost. Not sure if it is just wide tolerances or if they didn’t send me N5s.
Easy B, I got the N5’s from KD… “High Power Luminus SST-40 (Voltage: VH) N5 BC White 6500K ”
I not only used them in this triple but have built up a 7 emitter Supwildfire and will be doing another, this time with copper MCPCBs and a copper heat sink. Also used them in a Q8 which makes more power than some folks here believe it possible to do. All I can do is read the meter, ya know?
Figures you’d be up on the latest SST40s. Your N5s seem to perform pretty well, but I’m pretty confident my N5s are the same as N4s. I’ll ask BanL from KD and maybe order some more.
First I replaced the stock 5000K 3D XPL HI with 4000K 90-CRI LH351D from Mountain Electronics. I … wasn’t impressed. Yes, the output was high-CRI, but it didn’t seem any less green than the SST-20 95 CRI 4000K in one of my other D4. Also, as expected the output was noticeably more floody. But that meant I needed to turn the light up higher to illuminate things. I guess I just prefer a little more throw.
Then I replaced two of the 4000K LH351D with two 5000K 80-CRI LH351D also from Mountain. Still not impressed. Yes, color temp was a bit cooler, but everything was still green tinted… far more than my XPL HI lights.
Ended up swapping out all the LH351D for 95CRI 4000K SST-20. It’s still not as beautiful or bright as XPL HI in output, but the reds do pop more with the high CRI.
So far it looks like my favorite emitter for the D4 is still XPL HI. However, I haven’t tried an Oslon emitter yet. Maybe I should try that.
Also prettied up my white D4 by giving it a metal switch, green and pink aux bezel LEDs and Pobel’s modified Anduril firmware.
I actually do believe you, now that I know KD has 6500K's that look like 5700K's - a fact I wasn't aware of before. Weird the bin is not actually for higher lumens, but lower temp? Strange but it works for me...
Interesting D4 mod after mod, Firelight2. The XPL HI V2 5D is still my favorite look'n beam, but pretty much all XPL HI's have a consistent looking beam. I'm lik'n Blue's 3500K SST-20's as well, but they are under the BBL.
In the CK vs lumintop race to see who can make an anduril powered tail switch light first it looks like it’s CK 1, LT 0!
In case you’re not impressed cause you don’t know what the folomov 18650s is; the driver is at the tail with the e-switch mounted on it. No wires or secondary tubes connect the head and tail. Power is supplied via a bleed resistor at the head, the LED- output on the driver goes back into the body. This driver could potentially be a drop in replacement for any clicky light to convert to e-switch!
