I wish you could be here too buddy, the seller even left us bacardi and whisky, along with tools for the garden and a lot of other stuff, I’m really really stoked with the new house and I now have a workshop, the neighbours are soon to find out what a 5a xp-g2 vs dedomed 5a xm-l2 looks like, the lucky buggers, I also have an acceptable beam shot range from my back door with not too much light pollution. Gords has done good. I even have a street light to try and turn off from my bedroom window, oh the new neighbours will love me lol.
They're there, but unfortunately I couldn't capture them in the beam shots, possibly because I was hand holding the flashlight.
Congrats!
cheers bud and sorry for the thread derailment 0:)
Sub’ed, waiting for full review!
Somehow, you guys have it slow with reviewing this light 
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Can you post atleast one outdoor beamshot with the 3 AA and a 18650. Thanks!
Best I got is a lux reading with Eneloops that is 66% of what it is with a flat top King King ICR26650. For comparison, the same cell put straight into a HD2010 is 88%.
This is the first time I've used my lux meter with a flashlight, so let's call them preliminary at best.
What your saying is the 3AA is about 20% less bright than the 26650.
What about the 18650?
How'd you get 20%. It is 34% less bright than the 26650. The 26650 is about 50% brighter.
I need more 18650's...
Thanks a lot for the review! Frontpage’d and Sticky’d.
Any updates :D?
How about now :D?
I'm awful aint I?
I'll do a minor update tomorrow. Integrating sphere might happen in a week, but taking it apart and modding will probably be over a month away.
Is there anything in particular that you're looking for?
Beamshots, lumens, battery life and lumens sag :D! THROW!
Id like to know whether I should choose D40A or X3 and neither you nor the have finished your reviews :P!
What's wrong with the beam shots I have up now? Do you mean wall shots?
I compared some lux readings here: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/20211#comment-446490
I still need to standardize how I take those readings before I add it to the top.
Lumens will require me to finish building and calibrating my integrating sphere bucket, and even that might be a while because I'm probably going to get a different lux meter that will require me to recalibrate and retest everything.
I can't do lumen sag.
Tailcap readings will come tomorrow, and battery life can be estimated from that.
I am still waiting for outdoor AA beamshots. How hard could this be? 
I forgot about that. That's going to be at least a few days. I don't go out to that park at night on weekends. Too much gang activity.
Hi leaftye…. Many thanks for the review.
Btw, try setting your camera’s white balance to “tungsten”. This ought to be the right setting for the pics taken in your light box 
For the outdoor shots leave it at the “daylight” setting. Hope this helps.
Added tailcap readings to the review.
I bet that'd really help with the light box pictures. I'll stick with the current setting for the outdoor beam shots so the comparisons between photo shoots is more direct. Thanks for the tips.
Well done with the beamshots, thanks!
Now, the question, do you have any multi AA light that you could compare X3 with regarding its output?
Another set of beamshots in such case would be too much asked, eh :P?
Only a short question:
Xintd x3 vs convoy L4? Wich is better?