I got to go out and get some beamshots, rain bypassed us. The S2200 is definately a seriously bright light. It, as predicted, is not a whopping thrower. My HD2010 has been pretty heavily modified and is pulling 2.88A at the tail on a XM-L2 @ 5000K. That same 5000K tint looks bluish compared to the MT-G2. While the HD2010 has been my best thrower to date, the S2200 meets it, and ups the ante. It doesnāt throw further. Theyāre about the same in the distance dept. But it puts out at least twice the light. More light everywhere, even downrange where it makes it easy to focus the camera thereās the same light out to the sides. So in that regard too it wallops the HD2010. My little L2P with M3 head looked pathetic, so much so I didnāt even include any pics from it. I once thought itās throw was respectable, but it fell flat. And was much bluer in color appearance.
I ran the light for short bursts, a dozen times or more. I took it for a brief walk and compared em without the camera, searching things out. I could see trees in our back 40 some 475 yds away. Couldnāt make anything out but could see they were there. And while the 2010 created a relatively narrow path of light to look down, the 2200 put out a nice wide swath of light, all the way to the back fence. Pretty respectable. The solid midsection where the emitter is mounted warmed ever so slightly. Really. Barely noticeable. The cells measured 4.09, 4.09, and 4.10 when I came inside.
This picture is big. Crunched the JPEG a bit to get it down from 43MB to 16MB. So if you click on it and go to the larger versions in Flickr, be aware it might take a little while on some systems.
If youāre looking for throw, get the S1100. If you want the best of both worlds, this S2200 just might be for you!
One more thing, when I was out walking around with it just before full dark I was surpised at something Iād never seen before. The emitter is so fn huge it collected what little ambient light there was and almost appeared to glow down at the bottom of that salad bowl reflector! Iām serious, you could see that orange/yellow ball down there when the other lights showed nothing. Like in the pic up above where it fills the reflector with yellow reflection, you could see that in near darkness! Impressively huge!
And Iāll add what Foy was impressed about, the build is flawless. Very professional. No quirks, nothing. The lens has the AR they say it has, in a reddish hue like some binoculars. They even left the āVoltugeā intact. lol
This mild orange peel reflector gives a gorgeous beam. The emitter is made up of 40something areas in conjuction, so a smooth reflector might be pretty ugly in it. They have a fantastic smooth reflector in the S1100, donāt ya think if itād work for this one theyād have implemented it instead of creating a new one?
thanks for the shots. tint looks pretty nice. truly neutral with solid CRI. if you could post some shots of colorful stuff to judge CRI that would be awesome.
MTG2 in the S1100 smooth reflector has a two-stage hotspot, I guess you could call it, on a white wall, but in actual use it's not noticeable. It was like this with the XML too just with the center spot about half the size. The main center spot is still very sharp and well defined.
Anybody else notice how far the MTG2 is set back from the inside of the reflector, like we talked about in other threads? It definitely does NOT like to be shoved way out into the reflector like an XML does, that's for sure.
Ok, donāt know if this helps or not but hereās some comparison shots. The camera was set on auto this time to keep everything in perspective so that only the color of the light would be the issue. All pics on the right are the same pic, the S2200 on Hi. The shots on the left are, from the top, the L2P M3 w/ XM-L U2, the L2P EDC+ Triple XP-G2 (I think 5700K), the HD2010 w/XM-L2 T6 @ 5000K and the L2P EDC+ Triple Nichia 219 @ 4700K. Shot in a dark room with only the flashlights for light.
The color stays good from Hi to Lo. The 3 shots below start on Hi, then Med, then Lo. The shot on hi is 1/160 f6.3 ISO400, med is 1/100 f5.0 ISO400 and lo is 1/20 f4.0 ISO400
White styrofoam ceiling tile, one square foot in measurement. Tail standing on the floor in a room thatās 8ā6ā high.
Remember when a light that made 100 lumens was kick a$$? Thatās low on this one! 800 lumens is screaming (well, not long ago it was) in a P60 drop-in, how about Med here?
Yeah, gotta love it.
Enjoy! Gotta run, wifeās surgery is at 8AM, weāve gotta be there early. Iāll be out for a couple days with her while sheās in the hospital. Will try to check in Wed some time.
Hmm, looks good. The MT-G2 is a huge emitter as compared to the XM-L, is it Creeās offer to the Luminus/Phlatlight SST90 possibly ? or just a differnet class of chip ?
Sure does... or, there's nothing to indicate it doesn't. 3S even completely flat is still well above the LED's Vf so if the cells are capable of providing enough current at that point, it'll stay at full output. The 'low batt' warning, I don't know what it trips at under load, but after the cells are removed from the light they're at 3.3v/cell. That 1+hr run time is the point just where the indicator turns from green to red, which still leaves a good reserve before it's actually out of juice. I've never run mine past that so I don't know what it does if you don't switch it off when it goes red (whether it shifts to a lower mode, or shuts down completely).
My hybrid version does almost exactly the same tailcap numbers as measured by DBCstm, so I think it's pretty clear the driver circuitry isn't changed from the S1100. Only change being the different UI with hidden blinkies which doesn't affect the output.