The BEAST - TN31 (6.5A) Vinh light has arrived and tested - WOW!!!!

Very cool light Vinh. It kills the old ones you modded for me and my brother. I’m certainly no official tester, but feel free to reference my numbers from the test tonite. For certain my numbers clearly show your new TN31 mods easily beat the TN31mb.

You guys really bummmmm me out :weary:
My thrower is a dedomed XM-L2 T08….100k if Im lucky

Is the K40 as good as the TN31 as far as the features. One better than the other?

Alex1234 gave me the bug to get one of these and am having a hard time resisting!

the k40 will have a slightly larger hot spot. that could be a plus or minus to you. i think the slightly larger hot spot will make it more useful. not sure what kind of numbers it will produce, but i would bet it would still be over 400kcd

edit: i would be willing to bet the tn31 is made by Supbeam.

I think Vinh said that it was not the much of a difference of throw. There was some, but he thought that the small size of the K40 was the way to go. He said that he would also pick the K40 over it if it was his choice. Wait a bit, I think there are a few guys who will have both in their hands soon!

Congrats on your monster thrower! Do you know what current sense resistors are being used in Vinhn’s TN31? Was the stock XM-L2 led the one that was dedomed?

it is amazing, I need tell guys, if want to mod the TN31, you must choose the TN31 XM-L2,

A 1700+ lumen light that can throw 500+Kcd IS indeed remarkable.

Unfortunately I don’t know. This light is second hand, so not sure if it was the original XML2 or not. And if I am hearing correctly, Vinh totally bypasses the resistors. Tom E or Vinh answer that one much better than I can.

That reminds me of direct drive…Vinh was known to successfully achieve that with his early XML P60 dropins powered on a single IMR16340!

510K how much is that in throw? 1000m? 700m? 2km?

according to the throw calculator spreadsheet i borrowed from _the_ ... 1,428 meters

WOW! :open_mouth:

Can’t wait for the outdoor beam shots. :bigsmile:

Oh I forgot. I tested lumens on the lower settings too. Here is all the settings -
Level 1 - .4
Level 2 - 18
Level 3 - 471
Level 4 - 1050
Level 5 - 1515
Level 6 - 1740
Pretty usuable spread of levels still.

Me too!

Very nice. I like the tint. Is that the 1A tint or the stock 1C tint?

EDIT: I mean tint rating before dedome.

There should be 6 levels.

The sixth level goes over 2000 lumens :wink:

Crap your right. Looks like I missed a level. I just tested them again. I stopped at 1050 thinking that was below the highest level. Nope. Level 5 is 1515 and level 6 is 1740. I’ll correct my numbers above. It has THREE power levels over 1000 lumens on an XML based thrower. This light is truly a beast.

That sounds like a beast :slight_smile:
I remember when Vihn did initial XM-L2 testing he couldn’t get much more than 4.5A into them, even direct drive. I wonder how he got around it?