Thanks for the compliment Joz....but salesman I am not. LOL. I am just good at quickly adding up value. Comes from all of the years buying tools as mechanic. :)
Really...this deal that Kronos has come up with is a no-brainer. Here is another example. I know many of my coworkers lost their X6's to their wives and girlfriends. I am certain the 14500 version will be a hit not just amongst us but also the non-flashaholic spouses, etc.
What Dale mentioned about SS is also true. I have certain stainless weapons that although a bit heavier they are super super easy to keep clean and looking like new. And hell...the aluminum versions with Wight's driver and the new XPL..you cannot build those lights for the money these are selling for out of the box.
Here is another example..MItko made a killing with some of the X6's. I am sure he would do just as well with the Al versions but I also wonder what he could do with the SS/Cu versions.
Actually I cannot update the list in that post because of passwords but I will try and update it in one of my posts later tonight. ....just keep 'em coming and keep adding. The more the merrier!
Good; now I don't feel so bad having just invested in a X6R less than 10 days before this GB was announced!
I seem to remember in Krono's review he mentioned that most of the components are slightly different between the X6 (regular/BLF/SE) and X6R, meaning they can't be interchanged for lego-ing.
I guess that will probably remain true for this X6 v2, so we likely won't be able to retro-fit the charging head/parts into this one? Not that you'd especially want to of course!
Basically despite similar sounding model-numbers and aesthetics they are two different enough lights to justify having them both...
I have one stainless steel light, a Convoy S7. It’s one of my favorites because it looks great and it’s very tough. I use it as my “beater” light, the one light I never have to worry about damaging. After years of being carried on the outside of my purse, it’s totally covered in microscopic scratches, but unless you look at it in just the right lighting… it still looks like a mirror.
So, for aluminum it should be able to dissipate quite a bit of heat. I’d imagine no turbo timer is necessary there, except maybe on the smaller version.
For copper, it’s probably okay too… especially since a 14500 cell won’t usually push as much power as an 18650. But OTOH it’ll also be small so heat could still potentially be an issue. Maybe.
For stainless steel, … heat builds up like crazy and takes forever to shed. To make it even remotely safe, it would probably need a somewhat short timer which steps down twice. Do you think it would be better to try to make it safe, or better to just get rid of the timer entirely and trust the light’s operator to manage heat, knowing that the light could probably kill itself? Also keep in mind that the outside of the light might not even be hot by the time the inside is approaching dangerous levels — heat moves slowly through steel.