No, I ordered a few different lenses (for A60, BLF A8, P60's) and they sent all the correct items. I ordered two different 28mm and the 29mm. My experience from KD is limited, but so far they haven't messed anything up on my orders. It did take 3 weeks (1 week until they even shipped it out) to get my order - typical.
Nice review, I was thinking of doing one myself but I guess I’m to lazy.
I got mine in feb from Fasttech and it now it’s got a XP-G2, 2.1A nanjg driver and AR lens from KD.
It’s a really impressive throw from this little light now.
Oh you should try install the reflector without the centering ring
Hmm, the listing on Fasttech says plastic SMO reflector. THE DX one is clearly aluminum. Only $1 more to get aluminum reflector… I’m surprised they would be different. Otherwise, they look identical.
I’ve found that FastTech usually responds much faster if you open a ticket. I think that “geek” has said that they don’t monitor the forums as often. I think in one thread on their forum, I said that it’d make more sense for them to answer these kinds of questions in their forum so others who have the same questions can see them but I don’t know if they’ve done that or not.
Edit: Had to inspect the reflector again now and I’m sorry, it is in fact aluminum :zipper_mouth_face:
Really hard to tell though had to use a knife to be sure.
There was never a doubt mine had aluminium reflector…
I would recommend others FT over DX though, better price too, and also aluminium reflector, so its probably the same light…
anyone want to know how much this is in gbp? put it this way, I think I could build 2a 3mode xp-g2 versions for not much over £10 if I shopped wisely. Nice review r86 I’m going to have to get one to play with I think.
If you shop wisely? If you just want a decent budget build. Just buy everything from FT.
612 8,96 28mm glass 0,56$ (per glass in a 2-pack) (5 pack with tempered glass would be even cheaper per glass) XP-G2 2,86$ 6*7135 2,71
=15,09$ (already below 10£) –5% discount
=14,33$ after discount
Would take about the same time replacing those parts as I used writing this post…
I would without doubt paid a little extra for a Qlite driver though, would give you some spare 380 chips if you removed 2…
I dont need to say it, but Ill say it anyway… Copper MCPCB would not add that much in price… 0:)
And Ill guess you will qualify for some discount when you buy a fair amount of Qlite drivers, and maybe some of the other stuff…
Id guess gords1001, did not need the links, but might be nice for some others out there who are not so used to shopping around.
This is probably the 29mm AR coated lens I put into my light. 2,16$
Did you just say that you are going to put one XP-G2 and XM-L2 in the same C8??
I sold my last XM-L C8 quite cheap to my cousin.
But im going to build the 612 with a hard driven XP-G2. A hard driven P60 XP-G2 or 2. And even harder driven C8 XP-G2. I plan to do a comparison. Hopefully post some beamshots in this thread.
Im going through most of the tints too. Going to play a little with de-doming.
Should soon finish a 5x XP-G Saik Sa305 with a huge pill. And will probably make a Maglite 3D into a tripe XP-G2 with some nice features.
Already have a SK68 with XP-G2 + another zoom host with XP-G2 on copper sinkpad. I plan to test dual XP-G2 in that host too.
All that should get me a good dose of XP-G (2)s… Single 1. gen XP-Gs never did it for me. So I have mostly been an XM-L guy since the beam is brighter and more useful for my type of use. XM-L2s are just not that much brighter with the typical drivers, especially since I prefer hard driven single emitter lights.
But XP-G2 + copper MCPCB just gives new meaning to those small emitters! And throw is fun! So I got an excuse to try them out in many configurations. :bigsmile: 0:)
one c8 host, twp pills, a collection of different reflectors, sort of see what floats my boat, I suspect it will be a hard driven xp-g2 with a two stage reflector to be honest but we shall see, I’ll have the option to chop and change as I please.