Yes the tint is a cool white on the C8 but not quiet as cool or bluish as the photos show. I didn’t adjust anything on the pictures from the beamshots, so they are as the camera captured them, and not exactly as my eye sees them (although fairly close), the Small Sun is a very good neutral white.
It is a good one to mod, the one I have came with the solid screw out pill in it, I have heard they were putting a pill with a hole in the middle of it for awhile.
Sweetness!!! Can definitely see the difference. The beamshot at 175yrds looks a bit like daylight. Sure you didn’t call on the sun gods to help you in that shot?!??
The attention to detail shows in the beam shots. I have found that I really like working with the KD C8. If you are looking for a host, they have a complete light for 10 bux with brass pill. They have a good selection of reflectors for XM and XP emitters in smooth and LOP. I actually like to run a de-domed XP-G2 with a LOP reflector so that there is some usable light outside of the pencil beam.
Good focus and good work in general, keep up the good work.
Thanks for the info matt, have plenty of C8’s ATM but I will keep those in mind. Right now I have plans to put a dedomed XP-G2 S2 2B in my XinTD V5 C8 with FET and guppydrv , already got the spring bypass done on the tail end and waiting on parts. I think it will give me a heck of a throw, although I don’t know what kind of spill I will get with it.
Excellent work on these mods! Small Sun's can be a challenge - the quality and consistency is somewhat lacking, but it's all work-able. I bought a T43 for modding, but ended up a total disaster - not simple modding at all - stripped out the threading, etc.
I use purchased copper discs in various thickness's so try to work out the vertical spacing in advance but it's not always easy. Generally on the bigger lights that use 25 mm stock MCPCB's you are replacing 2.0 mm MCPCB's with 1.6 mm copper MCPCB's so you start out going in the wrong direction from where you want to be. I really like the 26 mm Maxtoch MCPCB's but they are costly, and still too thin.
I'll reflow the copper spacer to the MCPCB so it's one solid chunk of heat sink, which helps.
Thanks Tom. I have a Zy-T43 in there with stripped threads too, hahaha……the threads came out with the head when trying to take it apart so there it sits.
Thanks for the rest of the info also, I will be putting this in my knowledge bank for future reference.
You will have to let me know where to get those copper disk though , that would save about and hour of time trying to make one as I did.