Finally ! RGB MC-E Driver @ intl-outdoor

I got my package from intl-outdoor today and was pretty excited to build a P60 MC-E RGB module until I opened the package….

They sent me regular MC-E emitters. |( grrrrrr……

I’ve emailed their customer service and we will see what happens. I don’t see anywhere on their website where they sell regular MC-E emitters. Hopefully their supplier didn’t make a mistake.

my 26650 zoomie now has a purpose!!! yay!

The Convoy M2 takes a 17mm driver.

Oops! My mistake. I just checked my M2, and it does take a 20mm driver.

what other hosts are you guys using? will it fit in the torpedo 14500 host intl outdoor has?

the description for the torpedo host says its for an xpg size led… mce is quite bigger 7x9mm die

thoughts?

I got my package a week ago, and my emitter luckily is the right one:

I have the MCE color in a Sipik sk68, but have not made a reflector light with it, so to get a feeling for that I removed the lens of the Sipik and just played around with some loose XRE-reflectors that fit on top of the led around the dome , and my first impression is that it is going to be sort of tough to do a nice build. No pictures were made but it looked like it is quite hard to find a good focal point in which the four dies all give acceptable beam patterns and still maintain a decent hotspot. It got worse with larger reflectors, and better with more orange peel. There may be a nice focal point in a large reflector sanded down so that the emitter sticks deeper into the reflector, I did not try that.

One thing that will be a problem when having a reflector on top of the led (instead of around it) is that because of the thickness of the led you must find the room for that in the flashlight head (so it may be an actual blessing to have to sand some of the reflector away).

Does anyone happen to know where we can get an MCPCB for this?

http://www.cutter.com.au/products.php?cat=Cree+XML+Colour

o yes please!

nice that cutter has the color xml now, perhaps they come through with a mounted version as well soon.

Oh, and with a nice 4x1A driver with color mixing UI

FYI:

My jacob A60 hosts all have a 20mm driver. That would make the host 15 usd.

The driver that OP linked should be able to have the current boosted. To me it just looks like a 7135 based driver, so by adding a chip it would be a 1050ma board. I will probly be adding a pair myself 1400 ma per die is about right.

EDIT: Mouser also has the 4 color XML in stock.

So they released an update with the same solid/blinky modes :confused:
When are we going to get a 17mm colour mixing driver? :_(

I guess I dont understand exactly what this driver does.

Are you saying that all 4 colors blink at the same time?

Or does each color fire independently of the others?

It'd be great if someone that has this already could make a video.

Just typed in the search box MC-E

http://intl-outdoor.com/mce-color-and-dynamic-white-17mm-driver-p-686.html

I rotates between the colors or mixes them depends on which mode or group you are, there's a description on their website.

Who’s built one? What host did you use. Has anyone done a P60 yet?

i really didn’t read that description properly! when i saw ‘police mode….’ i thought my fears were confirmed :weary:

hike: thank you for pointing the group feature out to me, this should make it more useful at least! i had already e-mailed them and they said there were no plans to release a 7 colour version.

vesture: i don’t own the previous one so don’t know how blinky would function, but my first impression is the same as yours the description sounds like it fast cycles between 4 colours

i’ve never tried a multi-group driver, could anyone tell me if a surface mount switch would be sufficient to bridge the stars, if there is one that small… that way you could have semi-access to 6 colours…

I built two, but with the green coloured 20mm driver, see this thread there is also a video of the UI of that 'first gen. green coloured' intl-outdoor 20mm mcecolour driver. About adding 7135 chips: in that driver at least there is only one 'entrance' of the circuitry from the minus for all four dies, it is a tiny component that already gets red hot from the max 800mA that the driver draws. That may also be the reason that at any given moment just one of the four dies lights. They apparantly redesigned the driver and now there is also the blue version, in 20 and 17mm. I haven't looked at those closely enough but at least by combining the stars there are options that two dies light at the same time.

What really needs to happen is for manufacturers to consult us before releasing product. :) LOL! How conceded is that......

Seriously though that is a pretty cool driver. In fact it the only driver I have ever seen that even made me consider buying a RGB led.

What I REALLY wish there was though is some modes that pulsed the led colors back and forth after only one shot. Like say in the police mode rather than RRR BBB RR have a mode that went RBRBRBRB Or better still would be RGB RGB RGB at a semi fast rate.

I think I am still going to get one.

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Hank from intl outdoor told me it does not use 7135s, I think you can see that from the photo actually.

Your right. I glanced at that picture before and thought that 7135s were what I saw there but it appears something else is written there.

I am still confident there must be a way to boost the current. I cant read the numbers on the chips, but maybe its possible that those chips will work similar to how 7135s do. It'd be worth a shot anyway :)