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I suggest cancelling your FT order and placing one instead with Simon here: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Convoy-m1-hard-oxygen-t6-u2-cree-led-glare-flashlight/826041552.html
Message him before the sale and request an XM-L2 emitter. I recently received my M1 with a XM-L2 5c - very pleased with it. The tint is superb, so much nicer to use a light with good colour rendition. One of those things that you don’t believe it can make that much difference until you’ve seen it (for me, anyway).
Even if you stick with FT, I’m sure you will be pleased with the light; it’s well designed.
Why not just buy the host from Simon and do it yourself so you can get a proper copper 20mm MCPCB and Qlite driver from IOS and use the tint Bin that exactly suits you instead of a compromise based only on what is available as a pre-assembled light? For example, what about a T4 6A1 on a Noctigon?
That’s what they did here.
Go with a 16mm pcb if you can, Relic 38 tested his and could not get the pcb quite flat with the pill with the 20mm
I’ve built about 12 or so with the 20mm Noctigon in the M1, and a few of the ALu 20mm Cree from FT, they have all worked fine so far, maybe he got a one-off. One of the advantages of the M1 is the better heat sinking offered by the 20mm, shame not to take advantage of it.
the increased sinking would be infinitesimal, however the lumen increase by sinkpad or noctigon should be well worth it
Indeed it may be, but the increased quality would be exponential, and given the small increase in cost to gain a large increase in quality, would that not make it worth the effort?
spending more for a 20mm pcb vs a 16mm will not increase quality in any way
Oh C’mon now, 3 cents more. I think you’re grasping a bit now, most of us could probably live through that sort of loss?
However it would be helpful none the less to see the data that quantifies the ‘infintesimal’ gain, is it really infintesimal, or would ‘minimal’, ‘slight’, ‘small’, etc., be more accurate withal? Best of all, perhaps some percentages would be best if possible.
i didn’t check the cost, but i would spend 3 cents more for the 16mm if i had to, i’d rather have proper fit then slightly too large to make proper contact then major lumen sag as was demonstrated
besides its not quality thats increased its thermal mass, and i assume at the same quality
one could do the math to determine increase in thermal mass compared to output but i’m tired so if someone else can do it, but i assume its less then 2 seconds at 2.8A
Which takes us back to the original point, statistical probability. I have more than a dozen cases of a perfect fit, and zero of not. One report that there was a bad fit. And in the latter, I suspect a rotary tool would solve the problem quickly. I still fail to see the reasoning behind putting a 16mm MCPCB in a pill designed for a 20mm MCPCB that costs 3 cents more.
Looks like the diatribe will be left there while both debaters wisely head off to bed.