Don’t think any Surefire and Solarforce interchange. Surefires are made for CR123 batteries and have to be bored to accept 18650. Solarforces takes both batteries.
THS89 If the P60 is not fitting tightly in the host you can wrap it with aluminum strips cut from a Coke can for better head transfer.
Cut the sides of the aluminum can into strips that are as wide as the flat area of the dropin, the part above the spring and below the tapered part of the reflector. Wrap the can strips around the dropin to increase the size of the dropin so it fits snuggly into the host. Start off with a long piece 4 or 5 inches long and trim small bits of the length until the wrapped dropin is small enough to fit into the host. You want a tight fit for the best heat transfer. link
Doing some Google searches I see that some show as pink like mine yet others show as pure white.
Tbh considering how much I spent I would really prefer if it wasn’t so pink. If I get it exchanged any chance the replacement won’t be so pink? Was really hoping for a more neutral white.
That specific SW45 tint has a color temperature that ranges from 4260K to 4745K, so based on that alone you cannot have a pure neutral white as the words imply.
Wow pretty big range. I guess mine ended up on the low end of that
I’ll email going gear and ask if a replacement if possible. If not oh well. Still better than any other led I have had. I have a NW D40A on the way so guess I’ll see how the tints compare.
Would be nice if it had atleast 1 lower mode. It isn’t too usefull with just the high because it overheats really fast. Cant use it for more than a few min. Have to let it cool down.
I might try putting some aluminum foil or maybe some arctic silver to help with heat transfer.
Define 'overheats' - if you mean it gets hot in your hand, improving the heat transfer between the dropin and the body will make it get hot in your hand quicker. Which is good for the LEDs and the light output. The quicker the outside of the light gets hot, the cooler the LEDs will be running.
Color temp alone doesn't tell you much, look how the color temp changes as you move up-down on this chart...
p.s. Thanks for not allowing hotlinking, flashlightwiki! :angry:
That's only really possible if the outside doesn't get hot. I test little tube lights running at over 4 amps by dropping in a freshly charged battery, switching it on, and letting it run on high until the driver's low voltage protection kicks in an hour later. They still work afterwards.
Just keep in mind that at that temperature pure white in true sense of the word is not possible. You need to go to around 5500K for that but there are no real acceptable CRI for that on the market except XB-D 3C from IOS
You see purely white pictures of Nichia 219AT 4500k CRI92 Beamshots because the white balance in the camera is changeable. This LED is known for pinkish light and that is no reason for sending it back.