Hey guys.
A few of you know I’m big on c8’s.
I use my torches (yeah I’m kiwi) mainly for work and hunting. In NZ we have a huge rabbit problem and it’s a super popular pastime.
Anyway, the c8 for me provides an excellent balance of light weight, throw, flood, amazingly cheap price and most of all mod-ability. I have many other torches but the c8 seems the best so far.
Ive started this thread because I think it would be great to keep all the information out there in one place, and we can keep track of what each other are up to.
So without further ado, my efforts tonight.
68,200 lux at 3.56 amps
74,000 lux at 3.75 amps
83,100 lux at 3.89 amps
all tested at 8m, fully charged trustfire 3000mah flames, once amps stabilise, as they actually rise from turn on. There is a HUGE variance in my flames, I have had 3 fail this week, but they are cheap and work good when new. These are all a year old. I’m currently testing other batteries for the xml2’s due to the high vf. Samsungs are supposed to be good? (Tom?)
Made these 3 up for a mate who reckons he cant drive a soldering iron. He uses them for shooting rabbits on a 12g shotgun. He has been using a stl-v2 at 2.5 times the weight, 1/2 the throw, stupid modes and no pressure switch. He now uses these exclusively on the shotguns but i’m in the process of making something more suitable to centrefires for him.
They all have Fasttech 8x7135 drivers. Top has +2 .35a’s piggybacked, middle has +3 .35’s, and the bottom has +3 .38s. On the 10–100 mode.
All have xml2 u2’s de domed in petrol from illumination supply on sinkpads from Vesture of Blood. (cheers mate). Mounted with AS and glued on top to the pill with AA.
Small extra bits are pressure switches, AR coated glass, GITD tail caps, all from fasttech and springs modified to suit longer batteries.
These are 20,000 lux standard with xml u2’s at DD (around 4.3 amps, ie why my cells are failing), so around about 4x brighter than standard.
I can get 10,000 more lux by removing the LED centering spacer, but Graeme likes the slightly wider beam when tracking rabbits.
The hosts are all from an aliexpress trader who is a fraud, has mostly all fake feedbacks on his auctions and has refused to refund me for the fact he sent the wrong items and I sent them back to him - all at my cost. Aliexpress wont respond, its been 4 months I’ve been trying to get my money back.
LED SUPERMALL is a highly untrustworthy, fraudulent trader and I’ll post more details where and when appropriate.
I am currently looking for a new host, and I LOVE fasttech, but their threads are all different, so we will see.
How is everyone else going out there?
I had my xp-e at 2.5 amps up to 128,000 lux last week but damaged the wires tonite moding it more - more xp-e’s are in order I think!
I have an xpg2 im just finishing, its sitting at 99,000 lux tonight at 2.5a, but I’m out of drivers, 20 on the way from fasttech.
My gunsmith needs a few so he’s next on the list.
All my torches are done for free, I just charge what it costs me, I don’t charge for time, its a hobby, not a job 
Cheers!
Chris
