Dude, Dale. Hardcore.
Wouldn’t be able to do it myself. My eye would come 1st.
Maybe we need a Flashlight building scars and injury thread. 
I was having some trouble with the light dropping down from 12,000 lumens to 7900. Could not for the life of me figure out what happened.
Come to find out, one of the 2 screws holding the driver down was loose. I had taken the driver out and put new 18ga wires on it for neatness sake. Somehow I didn’t get both screws tight. Now the ground supply is good and it’s back up to mega lumens, with LG HE-4 cells freshly charged it’s making 12,523.5 lumens. Ahhhh, sweeet!
I don’t understand it, will have to get an amp measurement on the negative lead coming into the board up top.
Halo, I had put a big fat 16 ga lead wire coming from the driver and it was sinking my iron, wouldn’t let go of the mcpcb. So I had my tweezers under it, giving it a bit of a pull while heating it up and it suddenly let go and liquid solder splashed my face, got in my right eye and in my whiskers. And the phone rang, my cousin returning a call. By the time I’d talked to Michael I was chomping on the bit to get the light finished up (maybe this is how I missed that loose screw?) and so I worked on it first, then got the little solder balls out from under my lower eyelid. lol
Took a good long shower and streamed water in my eyes later, feel much better now. 
So let me get this straight… after splashing solder in your eye you:
- answered the phone and talked to your cousin
- finished building the light
- and only then removed the solder from your eye
Now THAT’s dedication! A true flashlight modder at work!!! :bigsmile:
I mean, it was tearing up and kinda burning but once the solder got under the lower eyelid it was bearable while I finished (as long as I didn’t blink too much.)
Dude, I know what REAL pain is, that was just a nuisance. 
I just completed my first mod using the XPL high intensity emitter.
My DQG 18650 Tiny III was equipped with 3x XPG2 5A2 tint. Now it’s sporting triple XPL high-intensity. Two of them are 4000K and one is 5000K, all 70 CRI.
Driver is a 10x7135 3.8 amp Nanjg 105c with DrJones Mokkadrv.
Preliminary observations:
- The Carclo 10507 Triple-TIR optic fit on top of the emitters with no problem. It might be touching the top of the lens, but if so, there isn’t much pressure at all. Seems like a great emitter for use in small triples. I need to try this in a light with a FET driver to really see what it can do.
- Not sure of the output, but it’s noticeably brighter than with the XPG2. I forgot to do a lux test before doing the swap. Oops!
As soon as a triple XP-L Hi is available in 3D tint, I’ll be first in line to buy some.
You like that tint too. You’ve got good taste. 3A isn’t bad either but I prefer 3D. I only got one 3D tint LED and it’s a XP-L V6 3D mounted in a Convoy C8. It sure looks pretty shining on a white wall.
I always wondered what a 2D tint looked like but I’ve never found a 2D tint LED for sale anywhere. I figured it would be less cool than a 2A and with less blue. I also hate the green meanies and the purple nurple tinted Cree LEDs.
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OUCH! (on more than one front)
I spashed solder into my eye. But of course I didn’t stop there. I got the 12 XP-L H1 in place and it was acting odd. Holding the button down for Turbo it’d ramp up then shut off. The 35A cells are at 4.15V. I tried again. A double click for Hi and it’s really bright. From there I held the button down and it went to Turbo. Stupid bright! How about 7141 lumens on Hi, 11,902.5 on Turbo, with the cells still at 4.15V.
The M43 Meteor, at 11,900 lumens. OUCH!
High level one does 1735.5 lumens. That Turbo is ridiculous!
Edit: Start up does just over 12,000 lumens. I attempted a 30 second run and at 20 seconds it was getting really hot, making 10,381 lumens. Wow. Ok, I’m impressed!
Crazy but amazing
Well made
This is a lumen monster in s small size
or a heater.
Regards Xandre
Well, this little guy just arrived…
Tell us more.
Nothing too exciting unfortunately, I only have the one, not 12 like Dale!!
But the plan is to put it in an XinTD C8 along with an LD-2 driver at 6A.
Waiting for the drivers to arrive now.
Thanks LSX. Did you get it from the States?
Nope, it was one of the sample emitters that Hank received.
Guys,
What are candela results if we compare them to classic de domed one?
Ooooo, please post the results and maybe a beamshot or two after. I love XinTD C8s, cant wait to see what it does with that in it.
Dale’s wife hasn’t seen that bill, one of the reasons I got the cheaper M34 then swapped emitters, to hide the total cost a bit. :bigsmile:
In the Meteor, it does 57.5Kcd. This is of course with a dozen of em. Not sure how one would act in a reflectored light.
They sure are slick looking, with the neat uniform covering of silicone that protects the bond wires. Like that. Like it a lot. The 12 I got were in a tape, made for these emitters. looked pretty awesome, even if the bill for em is slightly less exciting.
I’d have guessed the bill for them is very exciting, just not in a good way! 
I heard EagleTac is releasing some updated lights with XPL HD.
Nope it is the HI not HD, they got some "very limited quantity" as they say (XP-L HI V2). In these days such claims are redundant, quickly others will have the same LED for sale, Olight already uses it.