I received it today. Throw is actually not too bad. Lens is very curvy (more than my other XML zoomies), so, if my imaginations i scorrect, less light escapes the lens when totally focused.
I have one brick church tower 360m from my house, and it can lit it very dimly. Average C8 Q5 throws further, but of course beam is much tighter. Its interesting light, and it seems that it isnt very mildly driven like some zoomies.
PS: I think it would be really interesting to mod it with XPG R5, I cant wait to do it (I bought 2 of these just for that purpose, to mod one with r5) Even with R2, if you want very good thrower and dont mide weak spill. This lens is very interesting, its glass as I can see and very curved). It looks 2 times more curved than lens of SMall Sun C10, maybe more than 2 times!!
Manny I got your light done this morning and this thing is fucken ridicules. I have never seen a light throw so far. So thanks a lot, now I have to buy one to mount on my scoped rifle because it smokes the aspherical I have on there now. It actually out throws any light have built or had in my hand for that matter what a beast of a light. You have a 5 mode XRE that pulls 2.8 amps in turbo mode 1.4 in high and has a .002 1 lumen low.
This is one nice light !!! For $21.00 … Man O Man ……
I was searching around for the LD01 R4 on it’s own but the best price was like $33 shipped, so I figured I might as well by the combo pack for an extra $3 and just split the lights up.