New single emitter 4x18650 light at DX (APEX 5T6 lookalike)

That was my hunch.

EDIT - this must be the photo you saw:

-Garry

Yessir! Just couldn't get the dang photo link to work and lost my patience :-)

That (4p) with an electronic switch on the side… I’d buy it instantly and swap the driver.

I know what you mean, some of these sites make it darn difficult to figure out their photo links! I've learned a few tricks recently.

-Garry

You sure must have. Thank you by the way. It was kind of you to do that :-)

I think you guys are right… that’s probably a normal clicky switch, which is reasonable since listed current rating is only 1.8A.

Unmodded, this will be a spectacularly underperforming light for the price. But of course - it’s the modding potential that hooks. Wonder who’ll cave in first.

You can probably count on it being the normal 5 mode driver with pseudo-direct drive on high, somewhere around 2.5A

4.5a xp-g2 on sinkpad, awesome thrower. 8)

Good for folks that need the extra run time, I guess...

dedomed of course!

with 4x 3400s you would get around 3 hours on high!

If it was an electronic side switch, I’d buy it in an instant. I bet you could put the battery tube from a SRK on it and have a 4P twistie :stuck_out_tongue:

It’s just a few cuts, wires, and solder blobs away from a 2S2P battery config. :wink:
I’m on the edge with this.
Two options for me:

- XM-L2 (possibly dedomed) on copper at 5A+ (no battery tube mod for this)

  • MT-G2 at 5A+ with battery tube mod
    If it was an 80mm head, I would have ordered already. I like this format, although this one is a bit on the long side.

Group buy. $30.00?

Id be in this! Make it happen.

Since Sanyo ZT’s and FM’s stay above 3.5V during most of their discharge cycle, I wonder how well they would drive a +5A 7135 based driver with MTG2? Only 1.25A per cell…

MT-G2 is a 6V emitter, so that’s a no-go on 4P1S cell config. It may work on a 2P2S config though. The 105C has been shown to ‘tolerate’ a 2S configuration for a while anyway.

Yes, but what driver provides 6-8V at the emitter while being driven? I randomly tested a few 2 x 18650 lights and they provide 3.1 - 4VDC at the emitter while powered on. I assumed that all your MTG2 mods were being driven around the same voltages.

It has been shown that at least two different buck drivers that normally drive 3.3V emitter(s) handle the MT-G2 no problem. One is in my UF-T90. The other is a 3T6 driver, not sure exactly which one though. There’s a post on here about it somewhere in one of the MT-G2 mod threads.
Another one is the (slightly pricey) driver I used in the ZY-T08 mod.

Thanks relic. Has anyone tested the drive voltages at the emitter (MTG2) while under load with those drivers? I browsed for the answer a while back and couldnt find one, only the assumption of higher voltages. I should have posed the question at the time. Sorry if I missed that before.