He’s got some great numbers out of them. Sadly, when I sent mine in it would not accept any boost. It was the first time he couldn’t get any improvement over stock. Thankfully, mine tested at 1.8M cd in stock form, so I can’t be too disappointed… Or at least I shouldn’t be
That’s not good to hear. I just received my HI CRI at first and it measures only 228 lumens at 1s w/ both stock Acebeam battery and Samsung 40T Lumen output is the same w/ and w/o glass lens, which means the glass lens is very high quality.
Took some photometric measurements:
At beam center
CCT: 16255K
DUV: 0.0045
Ra (CRI): 85.7
R9: 36.9
Rf: 76
Rg: 89
At outer hotspot:
CCT: 2077K
DUV: –0.0099
Ra (CRI): 85.5
R9: 23.8
Rf: 78
Rg: 104
Adhara, thank you for the feedback. I ended up placing an order with Vinh for a 6500k W30vn copy, awaiting receipt of goods, but sounds like I made the right choice. Atleast sheer output speaking. Been following the candlepower forum thread that AmericanDissent is talking about, so strange that copy wouldn’t boost, 1.8 is a tremendous output but I’m sure disappointing when expecting some increase. I know Vinh talked about inconsistent QC with alignment, but for it to not accept the mod at all is confounding. I’ll chime in when it arrives and let you guys know if the problem was isolated to that copy or not. Have a good one all!
Does 228lumen seem low? I know vinh was talking about only getting 300-350 from 6500k. Both are well under the claimed output. How does the HCRI throw? Look good? Do you like it? Any beam shots?
Not a typo. There is a huge tint shift within the hotspot. There is a ULTRA CW hole at the center. Highest point I measure was actually slightly over 20,000K but the point is very small.
I’m waiting for it to get dark to see how it throws.
So you got the W30 high-cri, not the W10 high-cri? Do you think there is a difference between the two regarding the tint (some beamshots of the W10 were linked to a few weeks ago).
He barely dipped it 1-2 inches into water, any IPX-8/7 rated flashlight can do it specially in freshwater like that, what im really looking to, is seeing this flashlight being used in saltwater or at least dipped for enough time and depth in freshwater.
It is not sold as a dive light and specifications are not always correct. I would hesitate to go salt water diving with my expensive W30 and maybe then go through all the fun with Acebeam’s customer service after water ingression at 25 meter.