Thank you guys! I'm glad you like it, thanks for your comments
No, When I said 5A, it was measured at the LED (the output of the driver), so the LED receives that current and the drivers efficiency does not affect it. This drivers comes from 5.0A to 5.4A when new, so let’s say it is about 1400 OTL Lumens.
With the unmodded driver, it barely reaches 200 meters, but with the driver modded to 7.0 amps the throwing difference is huge!, so, i can't even imagine this flashlight at ten amps!! that would be EPIC!
(and nice cats you have there although I must agree with JohhnyMac that the grey eno looks p**sed about the role as flashlight support)
BTW. Did you order the driver you linked to? I have been eyeing that one before but did not jump because I have not found a single review or anything about it. And it is kind of huge since I dont know yet the inner dimensions of the light I would try to fit it in. Funny description though -
"Attention: One piece Circuit Board with 3~4 pieces "Thermally conductive adhesive". To make it better to thermally conductive, please smash the "Thermally conductive adhesive" and filled it between circuit board and body."
The driver by default comes at 5A, you can mod it to get more current by adding parallel SMD resistors on the top of the "mini tower" of SMD resistors that the driver has.
You can get up to 28~29 Watts from this driver, that means around 7A for the SST-90 (you can get more amps, but less voltage, but never more than 28 or 29 Watts)
At DX forum DrBlood, NeoFX (me) and alines399 discuss about modding this driver: http://club.dealextreme.com/forums/Forums.dx/threadid.858108 with some measurements.
Thanks for this review FX-32 - just found it although I have had an X6 for a year now.
Like you say a great light with exceptional build quality and with great flood AND throw.
I think this light is much underrated - especially on CPF which seems to think that anything ****Fire is rubbish. Some of it is of course, but not the X6 which is certainly much more expensive than most of the ****Fire stuff.