I did get a message from Dale last night but did not have time to hash things out.
Basically he said they did not get much extra lumens with the TA driver (which I never sold it as gaining lumens, I sold it as a working driver with better UI). Then something about they can’t sell it? I don’t know, it didn’t make much sense. I will try to hash it out after I get the spheres finished.
You should ask how did they measure the lumens? I hope they didn’t just use their eyeballs. I remember sounding like a fool when I said the NCR18650B and a high drain 18650 in an Emisar D4 didn’t make any difference in lumen outputl. After I measured it with ceiling bounce, I was amazed how our eyes are not very good at gauging relative brightness.
They said they sent them out to be measured in a sphere. No idea on any details other then that.
Although if both drivers have bypassed springs and they cherry pick a good driver from their old selection, the only change in output should be from the lower resistance of the TA driver. Which will not be worth a whole lot. Which is why I never sold it as a lumen increase to them.
I did say that they should see higher lumens with the complete package due to the spring bypasses but that is comparison a stock driver without it to mine with it since they had never even consider the idea before I suggested it.
They also mentioned it not hitting 21k lumens, so they are obviously confusing the modded lights I have been making to the stock ones as well and somehow thinking they should get the same numbers? Even though I was very clear from the start that the stock LED’s were not good.
Stock driver : 1374 lux
TA driver : 1990 lux (I only bypassed the springs on the driver) 45% increase in lumens.
TA driver : 2110 lux ( all sprngs bypassed ) 54 % increase in lumens.
MT03 stock : 986 lux
If a stock MT09R has 13000 lumens, after my mod it’s 19960 lumens.
I just dropped the prices on my website a ton.. you may want to look before they are gone. I will need all the extra space when the SC26 units arrive so basically I am selling at cost. Better hurry if there is one you want.
Those prices are 5 percent above cost. The MT09R 35 high is about 4 percent below my cost when you include the driver... Gotta have the space... So it has to go...
Not possible.. you have to remember when I paid Haikelite for it I paid for the entire light. The Price I have on that light is ridiculously low. just the driver I have in it cost me 20.00 same as everyone else...
I have test the throw on that light out to 822 yards which it did pretty easily....
You can have the bare shell but you will have to purchase the light to get it... The prices you guys are seeing in my website right now are pretty much dealer cost. I will make about 1 or 2 dollars after shipping..
It is really simple to adjust the thermal temperature.
Simply enter the menu by click and holding for ~16+ seconds (see the manual for full explanations of the menus).
On the 3rd menu option you will select option 2.
Wait 5 seconds and it will go into full turbo and remain there until you click the button. Whenever you click the button, whatever temperature the light is at that time, is the new thermal control temperature that it will try to maintain.
Then simply wait for the menu to cycle through the remaining menu options and exit before using the light.