Throw is surprisingly decent, in spite of a few things that induced misgivings. Sheer output can do that, a longer distance lux measurement will be interesting.
Tom, have you had an opportunity to run it long enough to get a feel for the thermal properties? The design certainly looks adequate, just wondering if it works in reality as it appears it should.
Yea, I agree - does throw pretty decent. My #'s taken at 5m too, and it's a non-treated glass lens, but who knows - it still may perform well I recall the Q8 lens did well in clear, not much of a bump goin to a UCL/p. Didn't run it long, but even after the 30 secs and the throw tests, it feels a bit toasty, but really can't tell til it's really run continuously for a few mins.
Didn't mention this yet, the finning is nice but has some sharp edges. It doesn't appear to be a high qual anodizing because I can see some marks on those sharp edges. I suppose at this price and this size, I wouldn't expect much better. Kind of reminds of the old TrustFire J-18's, AK-47's, etc., but the threads are definitely nicer.
But don't get me wrong, overall I really like this light, lots of power and great UI even stock. I gotta look into changing the LED though to something more NW.
This turned out really good! I think we have to thank Jason for pursuing it with Sofirn, not sure of others were involved, but --
Just ran a 3 minute turbo test, temps taken on the outside:
1 min: 33C
2 mins: 42C
3 mins 49C, and it stepped down, but dbl click brought it back up
The wires were easy to come off from using the bigger iron tip and 750C temps.
Driver pics:
Looks like a fairly simple design, might be equal to a FET+1 because that 3 legged part near the bottom appears to go out to the LED- side, same as the FET does. Looks like we could get a bump with a FET swap, perhaps.
The CTKS part is probably the LDO, but didn't trace it out yet.
The MCPCB is actually 42 mm x 1.5 mm. Back side is pretty smooth, no burrs, good amt of thermal grease, though I'd still prefer MX-4 in there. Shelf looks ok but didn't test it for flatness yet. I still would guess the wires are 18 AWG. I think the FET is the NXP MtnE sells here.
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Don't have a pic of it, but the tailswitch is huge, looks like one of those 6 amp ones. For me, the addition of a tailswitch is always adding another unnecessary point of failure and added resistance, but it does have some functionality that some prefer. On this SP70, turning it on turns the main LED on to it's last level.
Yep, same as a twist of the tail, though I'm not fond of doing that frequently. Ideally if the parasitic drain was low enough, wouldn't have to care, but wondering if the switch LED accounts for most of the drain because it's pretty darn bright - too bright really.
I wonder if RMM’s 30mm FET driver (built for the L6) would pump out different numbers compared to the stock SP70 driver?
Will the SP70 ramp up out of moonlight mode? For instance, from OFF - Press and hold. Tom E said it goes to moonlight mode, but does it ramp up as well?