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
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?
He jumpers the resistors - I've been doing the same thing. Actually been posting in your TN31 mod thread. I'm not sure of all the details, but I've gotten in the 1,700 range, measuring a little lower in kcd though, so I'm missing something, or doing something different that's effecting output, or just not measuring output/throw the same - dunno yet. However, the lights do seem stable jumpering the resistors - kind of scary though.