everydaysurvivalgear made some beamshots using both. Not sure about the last pic with 2 D80s if thats new and old.
The new one is a little bigger, significantly brighter (SST-40), handles heat better and has a lot more mode options.
Only 12 days of waiting 
however it finally came. 
I think this will be my new EDC .
There is a big grin on my face from the moment i opened the box 
that is hard to wipe off.
Somehow mine has a 2-tone paint on it, the main body is sort of grey-ish and the head is black, i like it .
Thank you @tatasal for pointing me in the right direction. 
:+1: bro, :sunglasses:
Default mode means all on Auto?
For precise comparison the aperture, ISO and exposure time needs to be identical —> all set to manual
The XT12GT indeed has a spot on focus I have seen same hotspot size with similar reflector size and XPL HI
Default mode means all set to Auto as my phone camera sees it. Changing to manual will still require setting at the center in all parameters for parity.
Yes, the XT12GT’s hotspot is like that, give or take a few percentage up or down. I don’t have professional equipment mind you haha.
My purpose of showing the beamshots is not to show what it really looks like in reality at 100% precision (of which my camera cannot do), but just to show differences between the lights on how they perform relative to each other as my phone camera sees it.
By the way guys, the new BLF D80V2 with XHP50.2 emitter is also now available using the the same coupon: $27.70 using coupon ndd80v2
Link: BLF D80v2 @ nealsgadgets
It took me a while to reformat manually but hopefully this should help us D80v2 owners out. Unsure what the numerals refer to:
1. 1 mode: Turbo.
2. 2 mode: 350mA, Turbo.
3. 3 mode: 350mA, 2100mA, Turbo.
4. 4 mode: 4, 350mA, 2100mA, Turbo.
5. 5 mode: 3, 5, 350mA, 2100mA, Turbo.
6. 6 mode: 4, 350mA, 11, 2100mA, 17, Turbo.
7. 7 mode: 3, 5, 350mA, 11, 2100mA, 16, Turbo.
8. 8 mode: 3, 5, 350mA, 11, 2100mA, 16, 18, Turbo.
9. 1 mode (non-PWM): 350mA.
10. 1 mode (non-PWM): 2100mA.
11. 2 mode (non-PWM): 350mA, 2100mA.
12. 3 mode (regulated): 4, 350mA, 2100mA. (Default mode)
13. 4 mode (regulated): 3, 5, 350mA, 2100mA.
14. 4 mode (regulated): 4, 350mA, 2100mA, 17.
15. 3 mode (regulated): 350mA, 2100mA, 17.
16. Bicycle: Strobe, Battery check, 4, 350mA, 2100mA, 16, 18, Turbo.
17. Bicycle: 350mA, 10, 12, 2100mA, 15, 16, 18, Turbo.
18. Tactical: 350mA, 2100mA, Strobe 16Hz, Turbo.
19. Stealth: 2, 3, 4, 5.
20. Security guard: 4, Turbo.
21. 3 mode: 4 , 2100mA, Turbo.
22. 4 mode (FET+1): 4, 350mA, 16, Turbo.
23. 5 mode (FET+1): 4, 350mA, 15, 17, Turbo.
24. 5 mode: 3, 5, 350mA, 11, 2100mA.
25. 4 mode: 4, 350mA, 11, 2100mA.
26. Party mode: Strobe 10Hz, Strobe 16Hz, Strobe OLD MOVIE, Strobe CREEPY, Turbo, 2100mA, 350mA, 4.
Muggle mode: 4, 350mA, 2100mA.
I ask everywhere and no one can answer what the candela ratings are for all 3 types of emitters, or at least for SST40 and xhp50.2? Thanks
At the moment I’m liking mode group #14, having an extra mode in between high and turbo is helpful.
Not sure what motivated them to pick a poorly documented fork of Bistro over the regular well documented Bistro UI.
This isn’t the case, you’re thinking of Biscotti where all the mode groups are clearly listed.
Bistro has had UI charts for a while but they don’t list ANY of the mode groups. That text doc he “translated” for us is the best info we have on the mode groups.
This firmware was definitely way too much a gamble, previously untested on any known light, fuzzy documentation, but luckily it works very well on the D80V2, at least I am extremely happy with it. But I feel sorry for the layman who will never really understand the user interface because there is no decent manual.
I’m quite fond of this UI. It’s relatively easy to use but still offers a lot of configuration options. I wish there were more clicky lights using this.
I got the xhp50.2 version and I’m liking it . Quick question : if you do pick mode group 14, is it still possible to engage turbo? I don’t see it in the list of mode groups above . Sorry if I’m asking something stupid.
Also, will the SST40 version thrower farther than the xhp 50.2 version?
Thanks
If there is a turbo it will be in the hidden modes, which is a looong click from lowest mode.
If you’re in lowest mode and you blip normally you go to next brightest mode.
If you’re in lowest mode and you hold the blip for about 2 seconds (not sure the exact timings) you get to the hidden modes, of which turbo should be the first followed by blinkies.
If you hold the blip and it comes back on in lowest mode you’ve held it too long.
Got you, thanks. I m gonna try. I’m now in mode group 6 and like it but I understand that groups 12-15 have regulated lumen output and won’t depend on the battery voltage ? Which would be nice…
Let us know how you get on.
Modes up to 2100mA are regulated as they use just the 7135 chips, anything above 2100mA uses the FET and is therefore unregulated.
I’m not sure how groups 14 and 15 are considered regulated as they use mode 17, it just seems that ‘regulated’ in the title means ‘no turbo’.
Thanks Marc.
Well if the modes are regulated anyway, I’d rather stay in the group that has more options. I will test it out in my light box to see if I’m happy with the outputs, when I get home tonight. I quickly checked yesterday and it held turbo ( over 3500 lm) for longer than I had expected and didn’t dial down even when the head reached about 60 degrees. I might clock it tonight.
I just wasn’t happy the next mode down from turbo which was at 1k lumens, and I wanted to have 2k lumens as one of the options . not sure what mode group I got in yesterday, I think I only turned off mugle mode. I’ll see which group has nice output intervals, but of course simplicity is important, I can’t imagine needing more than 4-5 different levels, and I could care less for strobes).
I am pretty happpy with mode group 6 - on a fully charged LG battery with 10Amp discharge, I get about 20 lm, 190lm, 400lm, 1100lm, 2000 lm, and turbo is almost 4000 lm. To me these are good intervals, maybe the lower moon mode would be also useful but it’s not that important. I could be about 10% off with the measurements as I never perfectly calibrated my light box.
Beam profile, hot spot size, throw vs spill is close to being perfect for me. It only took me about 30-40 flashlights to find the sweet spot, sigh……
But it says mode group 6 only has four levels?