As stabilized I meant constants current working mode (so, as battery drains, current remains unchanged). So, is 12 groups (6A) is constant current driver?
I just pulled off the sense resistor of my L21a (which was initially the 6A 4 mode SST40 driver) and tried to add another one on top (it was already stacked)
Since i did not have the exact same size, I couldn’t get it on very clean and i messed it up, which made me a bit frustrated. After trying to repair it i only made it worse and made an even bigger mess of it.
Than i decided to pull off everything so i got rid of the whole stack and soldered a wire over the sense resistor pads.
The result is (as already expected by Barkuti) that I lost the mode spacing, except for low. So i ended up with a Low mode and 3 Turbo modes
With a 40T at 4.06 V and the LED4POWER Osram 2mm i measured 8,66 A with my UT210E and measured 16450 Lx (UT383s) at 5 m.
So that’s about 410 kCd wit a standard W2
Have you still got the S12 Nichia219c 4000k around? How wide is the beam compared to the LH351D’s? I got 4000k and 5000k (PCB) LH351D S12 and it is probably the floodiest light I’ve come across. The size of the hotspot is good, but it’s the spill that spans too much.
Ah, I should have thought about that. I haven’t used the S12 in a while, so I can’t really remember the beam profile of it that well; last time I really used it was out on the fireground at night. I swapped the emitters out, so not a separate light.
And yeah, my preference is around 4500k, did it more of a joke than anything, but I think I’ll keep it like this.
Might be a bit off-topic, but the description “a Low mode and 3 Turbo modes” made me remember something. I had a malfunctioning UTorch UT01 (AA/14500) flashlight which developed high parasitic drain and some “issues” — one of which is similar to what you mentioned. Normally the UT01 has 4 brightness levels, but it now only has 1 Low mode and 3 Turbo (highest) modes. I wonder if that could be a similar problem (I didn’t tinker or mod the UT01 - it just developed problems by itself, and I had used it very rarely).