I received a couple of Mateminco X6S Triples from Neal and wanted to share with y’all how they made these, this is a copy of the original Eagle Eye X6 along the lines of the Kronos variant with similar knurling as the Kronos. The light is a factory triple available in either XP-L HI V3 3A or Nichia 219C, I got both lights in XP-L HI variation.
Here are the long tube and short tube versions, beside the same in the original X6…
Mateminco uses a proprietary triple optic very different from the Ledil CUTE-3 I always used building the X6 triple. These are smaller individual TIR’s and this yields a very large hot spot that is almost pure flood. They shortened the bezel to eliminate the need for a spacer which makes for a more compact light overall. Neal even talked them into making short tubes, which, when equipped with an 18350 cell, makes for an ultra compact triple X6S!
The driver is the same BLF A17DD with FET+1 componentry and ToyKeeper’s Bistro UI. There are two stacked capacitors at the positive lead on the driver to ensure reliable operation as a triple and this works. The driver also has the bleeder resistor and lighted tail cap with blue SMD emitters on the switch pcb. I find these too bright with the pair of 202 resistors, but this can be modulated by increasing resistance. The driver has a single gold plated spring, tail switch pcb has a dual gold plated spring.
Build quality looks good, these came with greased threads and extra o-rings also with 2 spare boots, one clear and one slightly pink. The hardened mineral glass lens is AR coated and does a nice job. The copper MCPCB is thick and DTP, with positive on the inner area and positive on the outer, a good thing. This MCPCB has double screws securing it to a pretty thick emitter shelf with a large central hole for the wires.
I, uh, modified one of them within the hour. The short tube variant you see here with the orange lighted tail cap now has Samsung LH351D 80 CRI 5000K emitters, 12 ga leads and dual Blue springs top and bottom, it makes 4005 lumens on an 18650 and 2957 lumens from an Aspire 18350 1300mAh cell.
Out of the box I found, using an Sony VTC5A cell freshly charged, the XP-L HI triple makes numbers like this…. (triple is equivalent to a 30s read as it was after all the other mode levels. )
0.01A for 0.3795 lumens
0.03A for 4.485 lumens
0.13A for 53.13 lumens
0.62A for 227.355 lumens
2.20A for 707.25 lumens
5.89A for 1562.85 lumens
12.86A for 3156.75 lumens
The OM included in the box states 0.6/6/50/203/579/1300/3000 in accordance with ANSI/NEMAF-L1 standards.
They also state the Nichia 219C specs at 0.58/4/38/153/420/889/2200
Pretty sure they didn’t use a Sony VTC5A cell in their testing.
And I have to note here, for TK, that the optic used here puts a slight greenish hue to the Samsungs that I haven’t had issue with in other lights. The factory XP-L HI V3 3A looks slightly rosy by comparison.