Best recommendation for you is a Samsung LH351d in 5000k. Very good output, 90CRI, and a beam pattern close to the xm-l2. If you want more throw, yet high CRI sst20 4000k from intl-outdoor is my recommendation. Depending on what cells you run, you may or may not over power them with that FET driver. The luxeon V2 is a lovely led I hear, but no first hand experience… also, the FET driver might overpower one of those. Probably fine as a triple though.
Well, i wasn’t to enthusiastic about the M150, my particular version did not reach half of the claimed Lumen output, and the XPL2 was horrible
One light that i am very fond of is the Lumintop Tool Ti, but that needed work as well, once you go down the modding route…
Edit, yes that would be my bet as well, the Lh351 is cheap and has a good output, i might just say that it’s the successor of the XML2
@JaredM I really want to try the LH351d,from what I ve seen it’s right up my alley.I have a triple spacer too from kiriba-ru,should I try a triple with that driver?Sounds fun!
@Yokiami I’m waiting for the blf sp10s or I would already have ordered the Lumintop Tool.I want to order some 14500’s but the M150 had the benefit of intergrated charging
You can give a triple a try, heck, try them all!
A triple 351 will be super floody. For a better general use beam and much better runtimes with the FET driver I’d stick with a single emmiter. YMMV.
@JaredM I love super floody beams on an EDC but I can see how a little bit of throw is also useful.I already have a OP reflector so I should put something throwy to find a middle ground!Any reccomendations for an LED that can take the high current but is not TOO throwy?
(Also someone help me,I can’t find the configuration mode for the life of me,is it 15 full clicks from of?That doesn’t do anything and I’ve read the cheat sheet a thousand times)
It has been discussed already, but the LH351D: good output and current capabilities, a bit floody, and high CRI. As long as I don’t need a thrower, it’s one of my favorite LEDs.
Side note: it can have a slight green tint depending on reel to reel variation. I’ve never noticed it, but I’m colorblind and therefore not sensitive to it.
Thank you again gchart!!!
Another basic and slightly silly mod for me today.
I have been looking for hosts for rngwn’s high-CRI 5mm LEDs and recently I came across the first LED flashlight that I owned. It’s a fairly typical ‘shower head’ style light with 14 5mm LEDs powered by three AAA cells. It was given to my by my father but I can’t remember when - could it be 15 years old?
I replaced the original cold white 5mm LEDs with rngwn’s 3400K version, replaced the plastic lens with a glass on, and replaced the ‘driver’ spring which had fallen off.
Stupidly I didn’t take any photos of the light before the mod or even power on, but I’m sure it’s brighter now and it produces a beautiful warm flood of light. The comparison photo shows a similar (but much lower quality) generic shower head light. To be honest, this light is probably perfectly adequate for the majority of my flashlight use.
If anyone can recommend some decent quality (e.g. retaining rings rather than press fit) shower head lights for more emitter swaps I’d be interested to hear. There are a lot of UV flashlights on Aliexpress with 5mm LEDs, but you can’t tell much about the build quality from the photos.
Because I cant leave anything alone, had my Emisar D4V2 a whole day,
then decided to fire up my mini lathe that I have not used in 15 years.
Loving the light, its my new EDC, for now 
Very Nice. Really sets off the blueish grey.
+1 noice
Two and a half years ago I bought the L2 host. Finally I put something in it. Sst40 with a cut and polished lens and TA fet+1 driver with bistroHD.
Don’t know what brand it is, maybe you can identify it on BG. It is of remarkable quality. 9x2300K, 3x5600K, formerly UV. Like it very much. Sorry for the dust.
This one: Page Not Found - Aliexpress.com (click on 12 UV LED)
Looks nice. I was intrigued until I saw 3xAAA 
Dont give up, use protected 18500 battery! 
This might kill the LEDs. There’s no current regulator.
Ehh, just shoe-horn a single 7135 in there to limit the current. Assuming they’re all in parallel, 350 mA / 12 = 29 mA per LED. Djozz says they’re good to 100 mA, so that shouldn’t be an issue. That’d give you 10 lumens each, total of 120 lumens.
Yes, already racked my brain about this.
I haven’t worked out the “schematic” to see if it’s doable, but one of these
might be able to be used as a contact board. Solder a small spring or nipple to the center pad (isolated or connected to something I have no idea), got the 2 electrically-connected pads on the side (for those “bead” type LEDs), and wire up something appropriately to use that to solder to the board with the 9 LEDs on it.
Of course, insulate appropriately with plastic sheet cut to fit, etc.
It’s possible to do a cut to isolate plus, then wiring the IC, then pot everything with epoxy.
This board is interesting, too 