You are wrong about the lack of thermal regulation though.
Yes, there’s a 60 sec timed stepdown, but once it exceeds 60°C it steps down straight away upon reactivation. If you apply a fan and it drops below 60°C it starts increasing in output. The issue is that it won’t reduce the output and stabilize at something it can manage
Do you have runtime graphs that I can reference in my review? I’m basing the thermal regulation statement off of my observations at 1Lumen’s 3X21A review right now, since it has the exact same driver and the thermal characteristics of the two hosts should be virtually identical. That review does not show and increase in brightness once the light is cooled down below 60C.
That would entirely come down to one’s own preference as to what’s better. I sell these to my customers for hunting and the last thing you want to do is throw down range a too wide beam.
Griz - I’ll show you a graph a bit later, right now I’m running tests for my EC06 review. This EC06 is only handling 730 lumens with a temp limit of 50°C and room at 23°C. That’s not very impressive
Awesome! Looking forward to seeing that graph. Maybe one of these days I’ll buy some kind of logging thermometer, haha.
That sounds very similar to my results with Sofirn Q8 Pro. I need to update my graphs because I’ve gotten a lumen tube since, but I’m seeing almost exactly the same sustained output with a 45C thermal limit and 21C ambient temperature.
I think the Convoy L7 is a winner. I’d prefer a side-switch-only configuration but the beam pattern is great and the host handles heat really well. I handled my brothers and now I have one coming in the mail