X60vn in hand and tested - its a true monster!

Thanks for the suggestion leaftye. I am aware of those lights.

I already have a sick modified multiemitter light. Form factor is not what I find interesting. The large 5 emitter reflector is what I am drooling over. :)

Thanks for the mini-review. Im sure you’re very proud of your light and have every reasons to be. Just the fact that the host isnt glued in this category of light makes it that much more appealing. If this were a larger & deeper reflectored light (such as an upscaled BTU reflector) Id bite in a heartbeat and gladly kick out the $. Of course everything is a compromise, and this light would easily serve a great many needs while satisfying expectations.

Group buy anyone?

Im looking forward to your beam shot comparisons.

Vinh says the X60 actually comes stock with a copper pill that the LEDs sit on. He basically took it out, sanded the surface smoother, reapplied the xml2’s on copper Sinkpads onto this copper pill. Of course dedomed. He then did a resistor mod to bump it from appx 3A stock to its current 4-4.5A range. He then did wick mods on all the springs, touched up any connects needed and replaced all the main wires. He said stock it was setup pretty nice. But with him boosting the amps he wanted everything bumped along with it.

That’s the first stock light I’ve heard of running on a copper pill, interesting. Though running it on copper doesn’t really make much sense with the conservative 3A drive.

It does make you wonder since many people seem to equate a brass pill as one made of copper.

It does when it costs 300,000 cents! I like that they've improved the headroom for this like. The Thrunite TN-32 also has a copper pill, except the copper extends to the exterior where it can have the greatest effect.

Still no beam shots?

Sorry, but no. Way too difficult for me to do during the work week. I live in the city during the week, but head to family country house on weekends. This one, and many of my lights are too powerful to use around town without attraction too much attention.
In fact, I had my X60vn out shining across a field close to the house this past weekend. Maybe 300m away at a treeline. There are houses perhaps 20deg or so away from where I was shining (same distance away). Only had it on for perhaps 10 seconds.
Went back about 15min later with a few other lights to try in comparion to the X60vn. And guess what I find - squad car sitting right in front of the treeline I was shooting at, sitting in the dark, faced my direction. Had to get binoculars out to make sure it was a cop. No mistaking the lightbar on top.
So no more playing in my neighborhood with the powerful lights.
If the weather cooperates this weekend I’ll get some shots done. Its suppose to be a decent chance of rain, so we’ll see how it plays out.
Any particular lights you want to see it compared too?

Wow, this light is really monster light. Throwing 6400 lumens for such long distance is incredible.

They called the cops on you for using a flashlight…

IN TEXAS?!?

Dear god, here in Boston I would be talking to the bomb squad like my name was Tsarnaev.

the main comparison light i would like to see is vs the tom e super shocker please

+1

I don’t have 18650 cells as I am very nervous running those things. I’d imagine I’d crap my pants if I hold one of those 6x18650 cell lights when they are on turbo.

The cost is high too but I guess if you have a real need for this kind of monster (Maybe SAR, living in huge farms, forests etc, other uses), that $365 would be a reasonable and useful investment.

Now for only taking beamshots or shelf queens, this has little interest unless someone is kind of a ‘collector’ :wink:

Just my 0.02 lumens!

I tried to do some beamshots last night, but no luck. It had rained all afternoon and had cleared up - but fog showed up in the evening really bad. The lights were fun to play with in the fog, but it would suck for comparison beamshots. I will try again Christmas Eve if I can.
The plan is a multi-emitter shoot out. Between brother and I we have - x60vn, x40vn, BTU-5.5A dedome, BTU-5A domed, BTU-stock driver, M6-3500 lumens, King-stock, King-2600 lumens, Kung-3100 lumens, SP03-dedomed, TK75-stock, Terminator-3500 lumens, TRJ12-beast driver. That’s the planned lineup as soon as I can and weather permits.
As for using the lights, shelf queens, etc. - I rarely NEED to use any of these big lights. I do use a variety of smaller EDC’s on a regular bases. But none of these big lights ever see true flashlight duty.
However, none of my flashlights are shelf queens. They might be not used for work, but they are all used regularly for entertainment and as a cool hobby. For me that is their intended use when purchasing them. I think its obvious from how much I’m on here doing lumen or lux measurements, doing beamshots & etc., that I use all my lights. I’ve actually made 1300 mile round trips for the sole reason of having a cool place to try them out. Kinda nutty, possibly wasteful to some, but I enjoy doing it.
And I do actually have a pretty limited budget. It might not sound like it from some lights I’m regularly buying. But I would rather spend my spare cash on interesting lights, rather than partying, going out to dinner regularly, or other typical expenditures.
I pay my bills, take care of my family, and plan for the future. Anything else left tends to go for my “flashlight fund”.
Anyway, for law enforcement, S & R, etc., I feel this light would make an excellent choice. You get the performance (power and runtime) of high end HID’s, get the instant LED on and off, all at a very reasonable cost when all is considered. Well over 6000 lumens and 1300 meters throw, all regulated and running on 6 included 18650 protected cells, at just over $300 isn’t really a bad deal. Especially for agency’s, police departments, etc.

I’d love to see beamshots of that lineup.

Shelf queens or not, I love seeing the crazy results people can get out of these higher dollar lights.

$400 expenditure on a hobby every 2-3 months is still cheaper than a lot of other hobbies.

@rdrfronty: My thoughts were directed only at myself :wink: I’m reasoning with myself here bro!

I understand and no offense was taken. I think sometimes I make these posts like above to try to convince myself I have a good reasons for blowing a wad of dough.
I’m divorced now (no, not because this hobby), so I gotta get my jollies some how :slight_smile:

Get any beamshots?

I’ve done one quick set sofar with other multi led lights. The thread -

Thanks. Nice set of lights and beamshot pics in that thread.