Up against the wall. Physical limitations. The X6 head is too small, pure copper or not, to run 2 18650âs to 3 XHP-50âs. It makes a whopping amount of light, yes, but it also makes a whopping amount of HOT and the copper pill will burn a blister on your hand well before a 45 second Turbo step down is reached. So the limitations of the 2 smaller 18350âs are probably in line here, in the 3700-3800 lumen range.
This is interesting, as itâs not even as high as some HI Triple X6âs Iâve built and less than the Quad 219C Ti X6. Guess itâs ok to shoot for the stars, as long as we donât actually knock any of em out of the skyâŚ
The H2E3 is supposed to be a minimun 90 CRI at 5000K, these are a red/orange look even before shaving the dome off to fit under the Ledil CUTE-3 optics which doesnât seem right. The output is a warm orangey glow (matching the copper pretty well actually) and while I donât initially find it all that appealing itâs not so bad either after a bit of use. I ran it by the wife and she liked it, said itâs just different⌠Really Bright, says she! lol
Reminds me of the headlights on my first car, a 1951 Chevrolet Custom DeLuxe. lol So maybe the color of the output is fitting as this number 62 matches my birthdate, Aug 9, 1962.
:laughing: Thanks. Itâs totally impractical but i like doing this stuff, keeps me smiling.
1.4A from two 10180 cells at startup. Canât wait till itâs dark to try it out.
LOL, 2x10180!? Thatâs crazy! The ones I got from GB was like 70mAh or something, perhaps itâll work as a flash for your camera? One massive but short burst of light, then itâs flat againâŚ
Did a runtime test with it, around five minutes till the cells are at 3v, Not too bad for what it is.
It just puts out a wall of very nice light, albeit briefly.
Modded these in a 2 day modfest (Tuesday/Wednesday) SD75 - Kit built FETVishayDD driver and custom home made 26mm to 33.7mm copper driver adapter. The new XHP70 P2 1C shaved emitter. 18awg Leads. Carrier contacts made from copper and braided springs. Tested driver and emitter outside the light at 13.75amps off 2S VTC5âs. The Cometa (Dark OPâs) other wise known as (MELT DOWN) - Stoned the dimple off the emitter shelf, for a newly re-flowed XPL-HI 5700k on a Noctigon, 17mm FETVishayDD kit built driver 20awg leads, contact springs braided, KAN9 FWD switch and Tacticool ring added for 6.55 amps off a 26650 Basen right off the charger. M25C2 Turbo 20mm FETVishayDD simple H-M-L UI w/memory XPL-HI 1A on a Noctigon and sitting on a stripped noctigon, with plasti-gage shimâs to tune the spot, for throw (Variable adjustment) pulling 6.4 amps off a VTC5. All perform better than stock
Today I modified an unexpected day off work into a splendid day at the beach with the kids (thanks to glorious weather and a bit of an untuth to the school )
Put an XP-G3 S5 3A emitter on a 16mm copper star in a Blue Convoy S2+ with an LD-2 driver, moon enabled. From a rested Efest 3000mAh dark purple cell the LD-2 pushes 5.78A through the little G3 for 1300.65 lumens out of the original orange peel reflector. These little bad boys are going to be handy!
One of my BLF D80âs. The main thing I did not like is that it has memory and the levels are descending. I have grown to prefer starting low all the time and going up.
So today I removed the standard driver. I replaced it with a 17 MM Qlite from mtnelectonics. The Qlite has the star off-time firmware with custom levels set to 1, 5, 15, 40 and 100%. Those are set to ascending and moonlite is enabled for a total of 6 levels. 8 * 7135 for 3.04 amps (standard config from Richard).
I left the standard LED and MCPCB as is.
The head of the D80 does not permit the use of a 17 to 20 MM brass adapter ring; too much thickness for the brass retainer ring to catch threads. However there is room inside the head, towards the front, to use a 20 MM partition board and place the 17 MM driver inside, between the front end and the cell tube. This involved sanding down the 17 MM to make for easy fitting. And because of the anodized internal thread at the driver retainer I had to insert a connection between the outer ground rings where the driver and partition are about 1 MM apart. I found I needed to solder a small brass button to the end of the stock Qlite spring to have sufficient clearance to make positive terminal contact.
My camera had a dead battery. No pictures as I was impatient to do this. I can easily take a photo of the driver / partiton if anyone wants to see it.
I bypassed the spring because the soldering iron was hot and, why not.
The UNI-T clamp meter gives a reading of 3.01 amps after 30 seconds, measured bypassing the tailcap with an 8 AWG jumper, using a Panasonic NCR18650B protected 3400mAh (EVVA).
todays little effort was to fit a xhp50 on sinkpad and mtn fet guppy drier to a convoy c8 with a ext tube to run 2 x 18650
it draws at 8amps at tailcap on 30qs⌠planning to trim it down to run 2 x 18500s
Right before bedtime last night I tried shaving one more little detail off my newly built SS/Cu X6 Triple XP-G3 S5 3A. This one little detail gained me ~600 lumens, I hand polished the honeycomb pattern off the CUTE-3, bright clear finish up top now. It went from 3329 lumens to 3936.45. Worthy!
Worth mentioning, the little dot in the corner is on the positive side, I re-flowed them wrong onto the Noctigon so I simply wired it backwards.