For raw impressive output, I’ve still yet to find anything better than XPL-HI for small triples. XPL-HI offers nearly as many lumens as LH351D, with much more intensity, neutral white color temperature, and excellent rosy tints. Also due to its higher forward voltage it tends to run cooler in these tiny hotrods than other LEDs like SST-20 or Nichia 219c.
If you want to impress your friends, XPL-HI tends to be the most impressive.
Unfortunately, XPL-HI does not come in high-CRI. My current EDC is a modified DQG Tiny 18650 IV running Anduril with three high-CRI Nichia 219C as emitters.
This setup is quite a bit lower output than XPL-HI, but I like the tint, color temperature and CRI.
Yep…. make it a single emitter option, deep carry clip and offered by another/ a different vendor and I’m in! This would be my favorite 14500 EDC then!
So according to the measurements the button top batteries are 9/10ths of a mm over the stated maximum battery size I think that they will work. Right???