Yep and although this beamshot makes it look like the hot spot is bigger on the J19 what it doesn’t show is that inside of that hotspot is a much smaller hotspot.
It gets warm quick enough that you can tell the heat is transferring but it’s not getting HOT like other lights that are driven this hard. It’s a huge light with all kinds of places for the heat to go. This could probably be driven even harder than what it is without it being a big deal. But it’s driven plenty hard now. I don’t think that there is much if anything to gain from driving it any harder. A lot of energy would then get lost to heat for not much gain in lumens or throw.
Nope but at the current I am running I would guess it’s at least 4,000 lumens and 200kcd that would be conservative. Of course that is going to be dependent on batteries because the DRY is direct drive. This is with 3 king kongs. Of course the extra heavy wiring helps a lot and this doesn’t have the battery carrier for that added resistance.
Not to go off topic or anything but does anyone know if the dry driver or any similar beastly driver would work on the SP03? In my opinion it is a nice light also but just needs driven harder. The J19 is a beast driven hard like this so I was just curious if this would be possible with the Solarstorm also.
Not without modding the battery carrier. I would also like to mod my SP03 but nothing comes to mind yet on how to do it. I think for now though I’m just going to live with it. It’s still a lot of light much more of course when you don’t compare it to a beast like this.
DRY driver would have a hard time to be fitted into the SP03, as DRY driver is designed for 3*18650 in series, while SP03 is 4*18650 in parallel. Additionally the SP03 is using electronics switch, not the mechanical switch as seen in DRY.
It doesn’t get dangerously warm at all I have not had it overheat once and I have taken it on some pretty long walks although I don’t leave it on high but that is more to conserve batteries. This driver does step down to high from turbo at 120seconds. Although High is still super bright.