Awesome little light… Quite small & very well made. The tailcap measurement was 2.63. This little sucker blew the other C8 style light I have away. Very focused BRIGHT beam… Well worth looking into.
i’m confused… did you get U3 or XM-L2?
or did you just copy and paste the specs from the website?
do you have supfire X5 to compare it with? i wonder which one is brighter between them 2
Love the quality, but it needs at least 3.5A on copper, then you got something there !
Those specs are confusing - says XM-L2 but you got XML U3. I think the 1050 lumens is over-rated too, from my testing with the XinTD. But still, outstanding light, outstanding quality -- Enjoy!!
Nice light Dale. I only had the good fortune to play with Suncoasters light similar to yours for a couple of months (lucky bugger I was) and I agree with your sentiments. Suncoasters was pulling 2.8 amps on a Laptop battery. I modded a C8 from a Q5 to a XM-L running 3 amps. I spent a long time getting the reflector right. The XinTD with a larger hot spot was visibly brighter at 120 meters. This is a well tuned light.
I have the v4 on order. Should be in any day now hopefully. Mine should be the XM-L2 T6 version which is about the same as the U3 I think. It should be my second best throwing C8 after the monster that Tom E built me. Looking forward to it.
i can almost guarantee the c8 xml2 from lightmalls will out throw that and be just as bright or brighter.
i just recieved that the other day and i just cant get over how powerful that thing is in stock form.