I might actually thought about de-dome a few of them just to give it a little throw and better tint. But I don’t want to mess with the beam I’m afraid it would get more ringy.
Fifteen would be quite a project, I’ll tell you what. I’m quite sure you could do it without breaking it but what a job!
So many 15 XM-L right now, which one did you get.
I think all of them are the same except their hosts.
You have to ask them for a shipping price and then mess with them a bunch to bring it down. They finally agreed to ship it for $15 and I got it pretty quick too.
thats pretty crazy! i love it! 5000 lumens stock. is there a driver for this or mods to make it reach 7000 or 8000 lumens?
my ak47 with 9 leds is getting 6000, so i think i would only buy this if it can surpass that by a decent margin.
do you know if my ak47 driver will fit this 15xml light?
i have no clue what driver i have, but its from IO.
If richie reads this, he can tell you.
he was the one that modded my light.
I would imagine it could be modded using the same driver. I know which one you mean I have used it twice now and have one in a 6x with U3’s. The thing is that both lights are close in brightness with this one having a longer run time before it gets so hot. I could use the same IO driver and run two arrays of emitters. 7 in one and 8 in the other in series and run the two series of arrays parallel to each other. I have no idea if the batteries could handle it, but I’m guess that they simply wouldn’t. I think they would overheat the driver too. So chances are the only mods I will be able to do will be resistance mods and I’m not sure I want to. As it stands I have a light that is around the same brightness as the 6XU3 with better efficiency, thermal management and run time.
I have a J-18 (7x) on the way that I won on wallbuys sale and that is getting the IO driver and XM-L2’s. That one should be very interesting as well. I’ll probably end up doing the same thing with a 9x one of these days too.
they have good price on most of the lights… but doesn’t take paypal or credit card… :Sp
Once you contact them they will let you know how much shipping is and only some of them end up being good deals, most of them are only ok. They will send you shipping and give you their paypal address to send the money to.
so you only paid $85 for the light including shipping? 
Yep
Nice, you are tempting me to get one now 
i ordered one too… just waiting for them to email me know how much the shipping is…
interesting business practice 
With me they got back with a really high shipping quote and then I got them to ship it via Singapore Post and it was much cheaper and it still got here fast enough.
Remove, reflector, dunk entire top side of the piel into gasoline and wait couple of hours
Here are some pictures of the driver and the emitters. While I had it apart I replaced the positive and negative wires coming off the driver and I did the copper on the spring mod. Not sure if it made any difference though.
Don’t think that I haven’t considered it before. But the gas destroys the Fujic paste and interestingly it makes the stuff puff up like a marshmallow.
That light must be an absolute nightmare for some poor Chinese worker to assemble.
I would think so. I was amazed to see that only one of the fifteen emitters was off center and it wasn’t even bad. It would take me all day to wire that light and center the emitters.
Ok I take it back it is brighter with the heavy wires and copper spring mod. It didn’t seem to make that big of a difference the first time because I put 18650’s in it that were not fully charged while I waited for my king kongs to recharge. WOW is all I can say. It actually startled me it was that bright.
hmm…you are seriously making me consider buying one now. is it brighter with 4 cells vs 3 cells?