You can isolate the led wires using kapton tape, it is very thin and can withstand high temperatures, I wish I had known of the group buy of MTG2’s I would have jumped in too.
The olight sr95 are some of the largest I have seen,like I said earlier I put the MTG2 in the TN31 reflector and it didn’t throw very well.The sst-90 reflectors at illuminationmachines.com are huge but tend to flood the beam because of the diamond shaped pattern.I think x7 and x6 might be big enough but spotlight is probably ideal at 5 to 6 inches.
Dang that’s big,but I still think a large SMO reflector would do it justice.Many ledil are designed for downlights or display lighting and boast a narrow beam but are still floody.Let me know if you get it,I’m interested in the results.
Little more to compare with on top is the sky ray king and bottom MTG2 modded zy-t13,king is brighter but not by much.King is cool white just to clarify,shots were taken at 10 feet from the wall and 30 seconds elapsed time.I also went further and measured amps at the emitter and got between 3.2 and 3.4 amps,which lends credibility to match's figure of about 2000 lumens.That seems accurate as the king is around 2300 lumens and to my eye,there's not much difference.Heat is definitely the enemy here,I timed the visual evidence of thermal sag at about 4min.19sec. where it dropped in output considerably.The middle of the light was hot but not to the point of unable to hold,so right off I can say a copper pill and a more robust host is needed to handle the heat created.I love this light more than ever now but I realize the inability to handle the heat makes impractical for over 5 minutes of use.
Thanks and you’re right about the moving to cool it!I toyed with the notion of de-doming(even though I’m not a fan of it)wondering if it would give SBT… type of throw,since I had only one I got cold feet.Maybe soon if I get some at a good price and get up the cojones to try it.
Cool,said reflector is for the cst-90,I think that would do the job.I’d love to see a picture and get prices.I was on their site just now and saw nothing on this.