UF-1504, 1503, 1505 - multiple LED's tested for throw (just what you have been waiting for!!!)

I wonder……I didn’t use any retainer on the 1505 as I didn’t feel like soldering to the pill when changing out emitters. I wonder if the XP-G2 separated from the pill slightly and the LED was getting heat soaked. Hmmmmm

KKW, 458kcd. Tag, your it! :wink:

Next week I plan to work on my ghettofied wavien collar. Maybe I can hit 500kcd! :open_mouth: only 12500 more lux at 6’ and I’m there.

I challenge you to a duel!

Throws gauntlet down.

:bigsmile:

BTW, the advantage of the S4 2B disappears once my order from international outdoor shows up. :wink:

I’m currently assembling one with one of the S3 3A’s I bought from you, so the ball may be back in your court before the S4 2B’s show up.

Ha, no duel. I’m sure you will beat me to 500. I just wanna get to 500 just to say I could and did.

Oh, by the way, did you see the amps for the XP-L V6’s? I think it was you having issues getting the current out of them. I know there is speculation they are really V5’s from LEDDNA, but 1 bin should not cause that huge of a difference should it?

Yeah and the 3A should be to warm to dedome. Should be a nice tint though.

I’ve never been scared of a warm tint.

C’mon, this could be fun, let’s push the envelope on these things. Let’s take them as far as we can get them and then swap our final resulting lights. My goal is to beat my K50vn at 575kcd. I’m thinking I can definitely do it with a 1405, but the 1504 should be a nice challenge.

You got some terrible results for 50mm aspheric. In fact they are more than terrible if you ask me.

So maybe this time in this particular 1503 unit lens sucks?

Good 50 mm aspheric should throw 260kcd with 3,5A driver.

Well the S3 3A light I built only measures out at 343kcd without a collar, not going to be getting ahead of your numbers with that.

It staggers me that you are getting numbers 25% higher than I am. I really hope the S4 2B’s don’t disappoint when they get here.

I agree. I was disappointed in the 1503 and 1505 results

KKW, maybe your meter is off since Djozz said I was within 5% of his numbers

Wow. this is some great info here thanks n10sivern :slight_smile:

It has cleared lots of questions i had, but raised some new ones.

For example, please do a full description on how you modded your 1504, i am wondering what low resistance mods you did just to know if you left any performance on the table or not.

I know for example that KKW did not do a switch board bypass & if you did that could explain some % of the lower numbers he got, but he also used the better 6A ebay switch for example, so please do a full write up of the mod host you used & hopfully that could solve some of these questions.

The new XML-2 U4 looks very promising :slight_smile: i suspect RMM will see a bunch of more sales from this comparison.

You said you where going to try out running it without a driver like i do, and compare with a DD driver to see how much of max output we lose by using a driver, i hope you still want to try that because i am very curious about the result :wink:

If you can get a similar performance increase as KKW got with a home made collar, that XP-G2 S4 458kcd + 20% could get you as high as 540kcd :slight_smile: & that is at 30 seconds. Who knows maybe at start it could break 600kcd :wink: to do that it would have to voltage & heat sag 12% from start.

For reference I tested the recent XP-G2 S3 3A build with a 6A ebay forward clicky. I’m just not getting the numbers he is.

It’s making me want to send him one of my tested lights and see what his meter measures it at.

I have read many times here at BLF, that warmer emitters generally in the same flux bin most often loses to colder ones.

It can be from the higher phosphor thickness or the not pro level light meters affinity to read colder light higher, or aspheric lights that often seem to get higher readings from colder leds.

Not a 100kcd difference though. I have an S2 2B running at 5 amps in a 1405 that only measures a tad over 400kcd on my meter. That’s the same tint, 2 bins down, at almost 30% more power. It shouldn’t be 55kcd lower than his S4 2B.

As i calculate it thats almost exactly the expected increase of 14% (400kcd +14%=458kcd)from 2 flux bins.

I know you said its at 30% more Amp but, the higher flux bins always seem to need less power/watt to get to max output.

If you check his XP-L V6 (that i believe is a V5) and compare that to the XM-L2 U4, that is also 2 flux bins difference (if i am right about the V5 part) and show a similar lower Amp because of higher Vf but a higher output characteristic.

EDIT, The difference of the XP-L to the XM-L2 U4 is almost exactly 3 full flux bins or 21, that would fit if the XP-L is in the lower scale of its bin & the XM-L2 is in the higher scale of the allowed 7 variation on flux bin steps.

But as you say the only way to be sure is to use the same meter, or that you send him a light to test :slight_smile:

The bin by itself would only explain it if they were running at similar power levels as I understand it.

I’m really starting to suspect that I have a meter that reads low, which is a much better situation than my lights all underperforming in a very consistent manner.

I am not sure it works like that, how would you explain the difference i bring up in my EDIT at the previous post then?

I mean the good old XM-L could sometimes pull 8-9A, but that doesn’t mean it would output what a XM-L2 U4 at 4.73A can, the higher flux bins with optimised for efficiency emitters, always seem to pull less amp but output more when running fully DD. They are just converting less of the energy to heat, but unfortunately they also seem to get higher Vf in the process, so they get harder to drive with our battery’s sloping discharge curves at high output for long, in single battery DD driven lights at least.

I guess you can draw some conclusions when you get your XP-G2 S4 from IOS and compare :slight_smile:

What meter do use? Maybe its know to read low.

n10sivern and I have both built XP-L V6 3C versions of the 1504, and his measured much higher than mine there too. I’ll know more once I put one together with an S4 2B.

I’m using a Ceto CT1330B meter.

My mods are simple. Hot dedomed emitters with hot air reflow gun. Melt the solder on the pcb, continue with the heat and count to 20-30, then wait on solder to harden and dedome with a razor. I’m using a DD driver with 20ga wires. Artic Silver paste. Pot the pill with duct seal. 20ga switch spring bypass. High drain batteries.