Finally! Thank you 18650. 
Doesn’t it have the “copper-braid mod” already as I read in somewhere?
I hope they have consistent quality and driver.
Similar driver to the one Hypr got? Did you try the pencil mod on the capacitor?
Unless my eyes deceive me, I think I see a resistance mod on the spring in the last pic, stock?
Wow, that’s a lot of lumens! Thanks for the review!
No spring mod on these. I now have three of them. Two from lightscastle and one off of e-bay. They all have the same driver. Pencil trick doesn't seem to work.
Ah well bummer. 7k lumens stock is noice.
Next mode on a big light is especially annoying unfortunately.
How big is that driver? Looks like 22mm to me.
It’s 28mm.
Come on LightsCastle, pony up a good coupon or something:)
Sorry buddy… not to rain your your parade, but I haven’t seen any stock light that can pump 7000+ lumens… let alone 8000 lumens, how do you measure the out put? do you have light sphere? :bigsmile:
Good thing you get the light for free in exchange for review, as for me… lightscastle is one of the ” no-no” list for overseas company.
I usually tried them all the companies known to BLF ( ok…most of them :bigsmile: ) and at least buy a budget light to test their shipping time, but unfortunately this company is one of those that will ship your package several days after you paid for the item(s) 7-9 days… really? :Sp
in fact I still haven’t receive their brand bike light sale yet… I’m giving them until the end of this week, which it will be 40 days since the day I paid for it to file with paypal.
I e-mailed them 3 times and all I get is… don’t worry we shipped your light already, please wait for it :weary:
btw… how big is the head? any comparison shots between this light and your other multi emitter lights?
LEDs must be wired 3S4P, since it's not a boost driver and they don't list 2 cell use as an option. Replacing with a BLF-20DD might not increase the output but would give you a usable UI.
Finally a review for this light. Thanx 18sixfifty! Do you think it’s the same light as this one at Fasttech which is cheaper? UltraFire LW-12L2 12*Cree XM-L2 T6 5-Mode 8800LM Cool White LED Flashlight
Any group buy for this one in the future? 
Interested.
Are there any real world backyard beam shots of this light available or coming? Maybe down an airport runway or football stadium?
The model you linked above clearly shows XM-L2 emitters in the gray color, the black version is still XM-L. Beam profile on FT looks smoother on older XM-L.
Interesting.
FT - Should be the same light, but good luck getting XM-L2's as pictured and described... Maybe - do you feel lucky? 
Cheaper here but only 8 left: amazon.com/SUPERNIGHT 12X, and listed as XML T6's.
Time to contact Richard for a FET driver. You'll get nicer modes from that, and all the lumens you expected. I wouldn't buy that light without a driver swap.
Interesting…does yours have the exact same driver? Also, what cells are you using?
26650 KKs but when I switched to Sony VT it’s slightly brighter but still far from 7000 lumens I was hoping for :_(
Interesting…I have the 9T6 version of this light and its consumes approx 76 watts based on tail cap current, which surprised me for a cheap unmoded light. It is very impressive but gets warm quick.
My Ultrafire 9T6 uses about 55 watts. There is a noticeable difference in brightness. (Ultrafire 9T6 still quite good though) I suspect the lights in question (like the one in the above review) are driven a bit harder out of the box.
I also have an Ultrafire 15T6 (about 30 watts) and it was just pathetic. But i recently realised i did not test it with Keepower 26650s just Keygos 26650 IMR which seem a bit suspect so will have to report back on that one.
What about the driver?
I have one of these on order as well from Lightscastle ,they sent me the LW-9T6 version first time by mistake which I ended up buying at discount to get them to send the LW-12L2 one out
The LW-9T6 has XML T6 LED’s not XML2 T6 the LW-12L2 version has, as does the Amazon SUPERNIGHT version.
The LW-9T6 was still bright though compared to my Fandyfire Warrior with resistor mod, it was much brighter, just hoping they have sent the correct one this time!!
The LW-9T6 also has the next mode memory which was annoying, I used it with Trustfire flame 5000mah 26650 batteries(protected and 4675mah according to my Opus BT-C3100) and they didn’t trip out on full so if they do with the LW-12L2 I’ll need more batteries |(
First one ordered 6th May came 21st May ,second one then sent 29th May and I’m still waiting for it