My Yezl Y3 Has Arrived!

I bought the King Kong protected, black, at Mountain electronics.

How will the Yetzl Y3 compare with my XinTD C8 V3, the first model?

thats a nice holster. so does the tube from the j18 go through that hole on the bottom of the holster?
do you think a 9x xml head would fit that holster as well?

It's not a perfect fit for the J18's, but it works. The end cap will hang a little on making it past the bottom threads, but it gets past them. Also, you have to force the head down a little to get the flap to catch the Velcro. I only use holsters for carrying the lights to protect them - I don't wear them very often, specially ones this big. It's a heavy gauge material though, and it's length protects the HD2010's and T08' pretty much fully, while the Y3 hangs out just a little.

Got the UCLp lens in today for the Y3. It looks fantastic, dark purple tint to the reflected light, perfect condition.

Results on a Powerizer cell at 4.21v

Lumens: 1,819 @start, 1,732 @30 secs and 136 kcd

I compared 2 different cells before/after Powerizer @4.21v and Efest 35A 18650 at 4.22v:

Powerizer: 4.5% increase in lumens (@30 secs), 8.8% increase in kcd

Efest 35A: 5.2% increase in lumens (@30 secs), no throw to compare

wow nice numbers, thats dedomed right?

No - not de-domed. 200-210 kcd is standard for HD 2010's and T08's de-domed, so this light would be closer to 300 kcd de-domed.

what the!? where have i been all this time. this is very impressive and it even has a side switch!

Tom’s is modified, I wish it did 300k with a dedome alone

Post #86 has details of the mod. I've gone to 4.2A or so on HD2010's and T08's and with a full de-dome mod, over 200 kcd can be done. For the Y3, it's a bigger reflector and this mod I did is even higher amps. Also, de-doming should double the throw, so 270-285 kcd I would expect from this light mod if de-domed.

I ordered some precision resistors from Fasttech. I think they’re R200s…but they are so small. Like sooooo smallll. Did I order the right thing? I’m not a giant or anything, but the chances of me bring a component that is this size with another component this size is, well, small.

My Yezl Y3 Has arrived, I put in my King Kong 4500 and took it out, too bad I am among houses and street lights though.

I live in the city and can’t tell much about throw, but my impression is that the throw is substantially better than my XIN TD, I look forward to testing this in a more remote area.

Something that I could see, is that it is a nice light and feels like quality, the low and medium are great, and I love that side switch, and the fact that the brightness mode is guaranteed.

I sure wish that smooth tail switch was on my XIN, and the side switch also.

Get out in a better setting and you’ll see just how much further it throws than you can now. My cousin’s ranch is so dark you can see Milky Way configurations. In a setting like that, you’ll appreciate it much, much more. Cities generally suck for throwers.

There was one tiny sliver of darkness between two distant trees where I got the firm impression that I was going to love the throw as vastly superior to my XIN, which is my current thrower.

I’m really glad that you posted the thread on it, and that it was at Wallbuys.

Now I need to spend another $15.00 at Wallbuys this month.

4 Cs fit, but the light goes into low voltage warning and just blinks every second or two.

So there’s no apparent difference between type a and type c? Have I missed a detail?

Tom E, could you comment further about the heat sinking? I have my HD2010 running 5-6 amps DD and it gets warm after about two minutes. This and the driver mod-ability are the only things holding me back.

Don't have a type C, but believe it's the same driver. I'm not really too interested in the type C - no 8-12v high amp drivers with e-switch support.

Well The HD2010 has good heat sinking, but the uni-body type design of the Y3 is probably superior, plus lots of heat sinking in the most critical area.

I didn’t realize that the center section had a unibody design. Every pic I’ve seen had the centering insulator installed…

Speaking of pics, where are the beamshots people? J)

Also joining the fun here.
Ordered on Aprill 11, it finally shows “Collecting Products Now”. :slight_smile:

You think those are small, you should see 0402’s…. :bigsmile:
I guess when you’re not used to this stuff, they do look pretty small….

Yes - no removable pill. The pill housing section is the center piece of the body -- tube below, screw on head above. What I like is where the center piece section screws into the head assembly, there massive aluminum there with fins, so great location, and can use thermal grease on that fitting if you like.

Sorry, got no beam shots... It's a thrower though.