Ok up for sale tonight is a 7,000 lumen 12x ultrafire. I have de-domed the outside 6 emitters. They are the larger reflectors and are responsible for the throw. The inner reflectors have smaller cutout cups and they are for the flood. I left those intact so that this could keep it’s great flood and beam pattern. But I wanted extra throw so I de-domed the outer six. This gave it a lot of extra throw and a little more neutral tint. It started out very cool and is now not quite neutral but no longer a cool white. Kinda in between the two. It’s a very nice tint right now. Much improved.
I also did a spring mod on the light as well as shorted the main wires a bit to get a little more lumens. It had lost some with the de-doming. But now it’s back very close to what it was before de-doming. Of course now it throws much farther.
I also replaced the factory thermal paste will Omegathermal 201 which is a professional grade thermal paste. Heat transfer is much improved over stock. Now the lumens stay higher longer than it did stock as well.
I am resisting the gravitational pull of this light. Sounds like a fun toy! Wife said with a new baby on the way, I have to slow down my light purchasing……but dang…….
I am considering buying them but I wish I knew if it was the same driver. Because finding a good driver for these kind of lights is really hard. Most of the time they stink and you end up with a light that maxes out at 4 thousand lumens or so and trying to get a better driver is expensive. I’m done with the IO drivers. They are just not reliable enough. It’s got to be a good FET driver like the one I’m selling. That or the $50 flex driver that gets used once in a while.
What I thought was funny about the description of the ones I got was the 300meter diving part. Now that is funny. It’s got nice 0-rings but not THAT nice.
I know this is a sales thread, but what exact light is this? There are at least a couple of UF 12X light form factors. Where is it from?
Since it's not mentioned, I assume you kept the stock LED's and stars? Kept the stock wires between the LED's? Just trying to figure out how you achieved this without resistor modding, unless it's one of the lights that are DD effectively...
It’s got great heat sinking and a very simple driver that is FET based so it cranks. I could actually crank it higher but it’s pointless. It gets screaming hot when it’s cracked up any more. It’s good right were it is. When I bumped it up more it didn’t do any good because thermal sag just dragged it back down. This seems to be optimal for it. It handles this heat well.
The emitters are just the old T6’s but they have a nice cool tint. The de-domed ones mix well with them and give it a cooler neutral. So it’s not quite neutral but close. It’s over 7,000 lumens with good batteries. King Kongs or Sony Green 30amps anything like that. Don’t bother trying to use protected batteries though. The amp draw is so high that it will pop the protection on them. But good high amp batteries run it great.
The low on it is right at 1,000 lumens and medium is about 4,000 lumens. Which is still unreal bright.
The emitters are actually on one large round star so it was really fun pulling six off and de-doming them and reflowing them back on. But I have it down now so it’s no problem. Just time consuming making sure to get them all on correctly.
It does get hot but surprisingly it handles it with no problem. But even so I would only use high as a turbo a couple minutes at a time at most.
The throw is surprising for a flooder. Some of it is just raw power but after de-doming it really added a bunch to it.
Ahhh, thanx! Ok - this is one of the new DD lights - useless on protected cells. This explains a lot... No resistor mod necessary.
This thread: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/25099 mentions the 9X and the 12X -- over 13A at the tail on the 9X! Sounds like fun . Looks like 18sixfifty posted the order from this thread.
Uh Tom… that amazon link showed 2 different version of the supernight 12X…black and grey on different body too… I wonder if the driver is the same for both?
The link should just get you to the gray version (3rd pic). Choosing other pics is choosing completely different lights. My guess is the black 12X in the same style is probably the same driver, LED configuration, etc., but it's only a guess. The different 12X body style is probably very different.
. Looks like 18sixfifty posted the order from this thread.