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, don’t ya think if it’d work for this one they’d 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, don’t know if this helps or not but here’s 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 that’s 8’6” high.
Remember when a light that made 100 lumens was kick a$$? That’s 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, wife’s surgery is at 8AM, we’ve gotta be there early. I’ll be out for a couple days with her while she’s 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 Cree’s 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.