Well, that may be a first. Buck driver of over 20 amps.
I have the JKK03 and the driver is quite good in maintaining output. Just took it out and may look further in it.
Edit (@10:00 PM):
Tested the JKK03 and dropped from 941 to 805 lux in 6 minutes. ~15% difference and head at 57.6ºC. Very good regulation and if thermal step-down would have to be higher than 60º
The worse part of those digital displays is when they show the "fake" lumens for levels. But the voltage and temp shown is pretty awesome. Showing moon, low, med, hi, turbo would be better. For ramping, a percentage would be cool.
Funny they are getting more popular on budget lights. Could be problems with water and reliability issues for main stream manufacturers.
It's an interesting light. Something like that would be ideal for a guy I know that has a biz inspecting and rating classic cars. He's got a few inspectors. Might want at least a lo-hi though. Doing close-up work, nice to set the output lower.
Little too pricey though. For that cost, we would need much better details. The spot size in the diagram doesn't seem to match that pic of looking down at a car - 225 cm diameter at 5 meters I would think would be a much larger spot at distance.
Don't know if any good at this point. For that price, hard to believe it's quality regulated driver, quality anodizing, good threads, decent LED, etc. Other option is for a mod host, then it's a matter of easy access, and that weird charger setup may be a problem.
You’re probably right! Not the best option as a pseudo Olight-wannabe!
I guess it will be a bit messy to mod one of these (with my skills I mean). I’ll pass on it then
Thanks for your feedback Tom E, always helpful!! :+1:
I just modded a Amutorch AL1 headlamp last night - 20 mm FET+1 driver, sliced 351D 4000K, Anduril2, 22 AWG wires.
Was a pretty easy mod. Bezel unthreaded easy, poked out the driver easily, decent access to the MCPCB. Kept the stock MCPCB - was about 20 mm diag but only 1.0 mm thick.
It's nothing fancy though - SMO reflector, no switch LED's. It says the tube is titanium but feels like SS because of it's weight. Little too heavy for a headlamp to me.
I wanted decent tint, decent throw, to use more like an EDC rather than headlamp.
Hum, headlamps sometimes are not easily modded due to the drivers/switches/chargers, but they are out there.
Getting one without charging capability would be my first point in case I wanted to mod one.
I have an Acebeam H20 in the drawer ready to be modded, once I order the driver. I will implement a driver with Anduril because I can make it fit in the flashlight. Otherwise, I’d just leave it the way it is
To me for a budget head lamp, not much better than the Boruit style single or dual LED headlamps to mod. I modded a dual, use it like every day on the bench. Quadrupel has a custom driver PCB for it now.