I received my Wizard Pro v3 XHP50 few days ago. From Ontario, Canada, it took 48 hours.
I am very impressed, I had already for the last year the Wizard v2 XM-L2 which I love for camping in the bush. I do mostly my camping by private airplane with friends.
-I’m really curious about how they can boost a single 4.2V cell to 12+V for this XHP-35?
I just modified one of LED4POWER’s LD-2 drivers to take 4 cells to the XHP-35, in an MaxTOCH Shooter 2X it’s pulling 2.89A and making 2346 lumens. It’s difficult enough to boost an 18650 to run a 6V emitter, but a 12+V? I’m running 4 LG HE-2 cells to this one.
Someone please enlighten me how such an emitter can be run off a single cell…-
My bad, sorry, I see now it’s an XHP-50. Even still, they’re not in any way going to get close to 2300 lumens boosting from a single cell, ain’t gonna happen, and even if it did it’d be way too hot to have on a persons head and the cell would be dead in minutes….
The U21 is supposed to be a XHP-35 from a single cell? Ugh
I just read something wrong and was assuming by the 2300 lumens that the ArmyTek was a 35, got confused I guess. Too many variations these days and I just built a 35 yesterday so it was fresh on my mind. Sorry about that.
Very well aware that the XHP-50 is 6V, I just put 3 of em in an X6 for 5300 lumens on a pair of 18350’s.
some one please hurry up and do a review this light is awsome it should be able to keep my balding head warm when I am fishing at night lol. I would be guessing on turbo run time would be like 20 mins.
Thanks for the tip. Just ordered one. My first purchase through HKE, I assume they are A1 to deal with? M4DM4X seems to be pretty well trusted on here?
Looks great Calvin,thanks for that. I just want to be sure but reading some threads you need to use an IMR or a 10 amp capable protected battery right?
For getting the max brightness out of the Turbo2 yes, I’ve used 18650 Protected Keeppower 2600mAh Samsung 26Fs without tripping the protection circuit. If you have any decent battery I’m sure you’ll be fine. The issue is when people use lower quality protected batteries and it trips the circuit.
First impressions:
-Fantastic build quality
-Slightly HA mismatch, head color is lighter than the body, not a big deal
-It produces a nice large, smooth spot with no visible artifacts.
-My CW doesn’t seem CW at all, it is about 5000K in the lower modes and 5500K in the highest mode. Compared to a XPL HI V2 1A it looks almost warm. It does say “white light” in the head so I guess they sent me the correct version? Edit: after comparing it to some other tints, I’ll have to say it has some green to it. :cry:
-Does it feel like a 2,300lm light? YES but the lux reading might tell otherwise
And the most important question… amp draw? (with near-full 30Q)
-Turbo 1: 1.95A
-Turbo 2: 5.6A
Since I no longer have other headlamps to compare this with, I don’t plan to do a review. But will provide more data including a run time chart.
Tint comparison vs Mecarmy PT16, shined on a white paper on similar brightness: