TK's Emisar D18 review -- 3x18650 photon grenade

Very nice! :sunglasses:

Was the schematic wrong or is the chip upside down, reversing the layout?

At any rate, neat idea… I fail to see the reason for it but still it’s out-of-the-box thinking…

The schematic was just wrong, the data in and out pins were in the right place, but the notch in the corner should’ve been positive but it was negative, and negative was positive.

I’m embarrassed to say it took me more than I couple minutes to figure it out. I thought I was damaging them when removing them from the strip I was harvesting the from.

Thanks, yeah I like it. I figured if I was only gonna have one single emitter, then I should do something fancy with it. There’s juuust enough room to get it all in there.

Quite happy with my SST20 3000K. Loving the size and construction.

It’s not too yellow in tint even at 1x7135 and gets better on higher modes when it warms up. Turbo is pretty much perfect.

What is the max Lumens you measured with yours?

I haven’t measured the lumens. My eyes tell me there’s plenty of them though.

:D

If you ever want to measure.. I'm curious to your numbers

It’s not really relevant in FET light like this where all the minute details affect the number.

Well, that is your personal opinion, which is fine. I was just asking.

Once I get D18, you will know some measurement data. I am waiting for the SST-20 4000K version.

+1

Turbo output really depends on a lot of factors, some of which aren’t even part of the light. Basically just think of it as a really bright burst mode, where the actual brightness level doesn’t really matter. It’s like turning on about 10 to 20 common light bulbs all at once, and focusing the light into a beam. But it doesn’t really matter if it’s 10 or 12 or 17 or 20.

It could matter… if’n ya was about to go fishing 20 would bring in more bugs. :wink:

But yeah, mostly that’s true. lol

Very nice HAL 9000 mod!

Looks like there is room at the edges to add 12 more small colored LEDs. Go for it!!! :sunglasses:

Thanks! Lol I actually thought about doing a triple in the middle, but there’s less room than you’d think because each optic has a black holder that goes right to the top under the PCB faceplate thing.

I might try to put one in my D4 though, but I’d have to put the Attiny85 down in the driver space I think? I don’t know I haven’t looked at it.

I’d really like to know how much current is drawing first though

Thanks.. mine is 4000K as well!

Have I mentioned lately that I love Anduril?

This is only 8 lights that have Anduril, I think I have 13, who’s counting?

That is crazy looking. Also terrifying cause I have huge trees within like 30ft of my house

Yeah, and we are within an hour of seeing whether or not we get softball sized hail accompanied by tornado’s. Damaging wind, flooding rain, a line of supercells is wreaking havoc across Texas as I write this and of course, it’s heading right at us…

An enterprising soul could produce an alternate topmost PCB with aux LEDs, but those would certainly have to shine through said PCB somehow since it appears to be effectively flush with the lens.

I measured my XP-L HI 4000k at 10,600 lumens at 1s with my TA lumen sphere calibrated with Maukka lights using VTC5D fresh off the charger. A bit disappointed with the output since the 7-emitter E07 makes 7,000 lumens at 1s, but the tint is very nice. The top of ramp is set the same as turbo so double click from off takes it directly to turbo. Typical Anduril lights sets the top of ramp at about 50% or so of turbo.

Does anyone else have the XP-L Hi version? I’m curious is the XP-L HI version dimmer than the SST-20 version. My M43 with XP-L HI 5D was 1,000 lumens lower than the XP-G2 5D version.

EDIT: I just realize one of the batteries was a Sofirn 2200mah and not the VTC5D. I remeasured using 3x VTC5D and got 12,400 lumens at 1s. Better but still less than what I expected.