First I want to say that I never had issue with this emitter until now…
So what is happening?
I run out of stock on them so I ordered new batch of 30 XPG2S4 2B emitters presoldered on a star from IO store.
Thing that is happening is that they all have lower output than previous batch of emitters, they are a bit harder to dedome and they have greenish tint
I tried gas, thinner and hot dedome and tint is always the same.
With previous batch of xpg2s42b emitters from IO they all have cooler(NW tint) when dedomed.
So maybe I even did not got XPG2S42B as I ordered? I really don’t know how to test this for sure or how to complain to seller?
Anyway I feel like I wasted 100$…
Does anyone here experienced similar?
Update: New XPG2S42B emitters seems larger than old ones:
Here is Real XP-G2 S4 2B on the left and F ducked xpg2s42b on the right:
Here is real XP-G2 S4 2B surrounded by f ducked xpg2s42b attackers that wants to dethrone it
Mitko took photo of this:
left is new XP-G2 S4 2B vs old style XP-G2
Mitko took another picture this is C8 host XP-G2 S2 1A on the left and new f ducked xpg2s42b on the right
Last batch of mentioned emitters were neutral whites when dedomed. They were also easier to dedome and they had/have greater output.
I fell like I did not got what I order.
Not just feel… I know that this is not it cause I use them in same flashlight, under same conditions and yet I have lower output with very green tint.
I just wondered if anyone else has similar issues. Maybe I am not the only one?
I once dedomed a 2B XP-G2 i think it was R5 from IOS and gave me Brown tint
I have dedomed a alot of leds with different tints but the best one was the 1A and the 0B looked very nice too for that my thrower project is held from about a year tell i find a 4S XP-G2 led in 1A tint or 0A
I hope you find your answer but in the meantime i advice you not to dedome the rest leds
I do order S4 2B on a random base from IOS, its tint was always kinda greenish, FT`s S2 2B has kinda pinky tint after dedoming( but the latest batch came very bad)
They do hot dedome fairly OK and gas dedoming is always nice: those days i have to dedome 4-5 pcs of those, will post a pics for you to see yourself
Just yesterday i `ve builded a C8 for a hunter with S4 2B- nothing special as usual- 170k mcds, same tint, 4.3 tail amps: sometimes those barely hit 4 amps, i have 2pcs that are capable of 4.7 aps and one S2 0d is running at 5 amps
The tint is EXACLY like the M3XS tint btw, i mean exacly: With the Nitecore AR glass
With a Convoy or FT AR glass the tint is usualy pinky
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I have few of them on the way from IO. I ordered them few days ago. I can get back to you when they arrive. Plan is to dedome and put in my brinyte 158 zoomie. Problem is that I don’t have any old ones to compare with.
I have no idea how to check if you received a wrong tint/bin other than doing exactly what you did: check tint by eye, amps by DMM, and output with a luxmeter. But even if they are different, what they appear to be, it could be a different reel from a different production date and these leds may fall on the other side of the same tint and bin category but are noticably different. How much lower output do you get, is it more than one bin-category?
I would ask Hank about if something happened to his supply. He has a reputation of delivering what he promises, so I expect him to take this seriously.
Test subject is 1503 flashlight with good lenses that with previous batch of IO xpg2s42b emitter does 240 kcd.
Driver is diy Djozz FET driver, bypassed springs on both ends. LG HG2 (but I also tried Samsung 30Q just in case of bad hg2 batch).
This is order from IO store placed at 13.02.2016. (30pcs) But I started building them several days ago.
So I did build several 1503 pills with newest IO order and I got around 180 kcd results with 3 different dedome methods
I started with gas dedoming as usual so I thought gas screwed phosphor layer
Next; I tried thinner same thing…
Next; I did hot dedome(screwed 1 emitter btw) and same tint again.
Lower output, green tint. I could really chew green tint… But I can’t chew lower output. I would say this is R5 bin not S4. Maybe somewhere in 1A tint range when dome on
Last batch of XP-G2 S4 2B has creamy NV tint(yes maybe little greenish on the edges, but comparing to this one is neutral white).
Maybe it is new bad batch of xpg2 S4… Maybe I fu duck something… But I am pretty experienced in modding and dedoming, and I am not using drugs. Just alcohol sometimes…
Guys please keep reporting if you find similar problems.
180k is pretty damn low, i got those with XML2 U3…who knows, maybe a bad batch realy 180k mcds isnt okay
You sure bout the 1503 lenses quality? I gave up on those especialy for the lenses- too many bad ones, too many came broken, i got boored with it
Yes I got 25 bad lenses from 50 pcs order (i PM you about that), after that I wrote complaint and got 25 hand selected lenses directly from factory for free, and they are all good ones with old xpg2s42b batch. So I can really recommend UF factory(Rubby) cause they care about costumers.
I found Djozz old picture 1503 vs B158(done with xpg2s42b) which confirms what i talked about. Am I right Djozz?
UF1503 tint is creamy nw white with just bit green on the edges:
I called one of my buddies to help me to take pictures, and he also took one of his XP-G2 S4 2B dedomed emitter so I did pill with his emitter.
I know now that I did not get XPGS42B emitter for sure! I will complaint to Hank about that. That is no way to treat old costumer!
Differences are huge… So with this experiment I confirmed to myself that real XP-G2 S4 2B has one of the nicest de domed tints(neutral creamy white with just bit greenish pigment)
left “new” batch XPG2S42B emitter right is real XPG2S4B emitter
So I have terrible start of the year. First strike on me is that 25 out of 50 1503 lenses were bad and I complaint and got replacement hand selected lenses and they are all ok now. UF factory is positive to deal with.
And now this: I did not got XP-G2 S4 2B emitter… And this really drives me crazy… I cant sell 250 kcd light as I stated to my costumers. I can only sell 180 kcd light with ugliest green tint world ever seen…
The craziest thing about wrong emitter issue is that I blamed myself, and dedoming methods I use… So I really dedomed about 15 of them with different dedome methods (i dedomed them like a mad man). Each and one of them is perfectly dedomed and each and every one of them looks green with significant less output comparing to real XP G2 S4 2B.
My experiment with this crap emitter also showed that there is no tint shift with gas/thinner/hot method. Remember that guys… NO one can convince me in opposite now.
I send email to Hank. The thing is that visually you can’t see any difference between them when dedomed(at least I can’t see difference).
Differences are noticeable only when you put them in a same host, on lux meter, and wall tint difference (in this case it is so huge difference so even 80 year old grandad could notice that without glasses).
So if you do not have spare pills or multiple hosts of same flashlights like I have it is pain in a but to find the truth.
We only buy sealed reels directly from CREE, and there is no 1A or other LED you said in stock.
Those S4 2B LED that the customers received could be from different reels
since we always have fresh stock every month.
2B as you know on the ANSI white chart allows some variability on both axis,
so CREE does not guarantee an absolute tint
even if it is called 2B, even us we rate it as variable 5700-6100K,
which is only the variability of the X axis, then there is the variability on the Y axis.
That being said, we do not guarantee any tint shift/different for the dedomed LEDs.
Brightness output and forward voltage are under certain tolerances also, they vary slightly.
As for your doubt of lower bin LED, I would suggest you to send random 2 pcs domed/intact S4 2B LED to Djozz
for testing, and compare with his result, if the result is not in the range of the tolerance
that CREE stated, then we would agree there is some “problem” there.
Otherwise, there is no proof to it.
Regards.
Hank
My answer:
Hank there is no doubt in lower performance and tint shift at all. They under-perform for more than 30%
As I said I can chew green tint but I can’t chew lower performance.
I will send them all to Djozz if he will agree cause they have no use to me.
I want to ask you one more question here…
Do you exclude possibility of your or your worker mistake? I mean is it possible you send me wrong XP-G2?
So Djozz do you agree with this Hank suggestion? I’ll sent you rest of them (about 15 pcs) for free and you never and ever need return it to me.
Hehe, it seems that djozz became somekinda “led standart” arround the torch world, great for him and us- he should buy a real spectrometer you know, Assensetek or something,they shooul discount him at least 50%
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Thats realy strange, you see i usualy rest every batch that i got with Assensetek Lighting passport, so far Only IOS and KD emitters were as claimed, FT cant be trusted, they sent emitters randomly whatever they got in stock i presume
Well, it could be Cree`s fault at the end…we all know VW diesel story, i wont be surpriced if Cree do the same thing , they are big enough, they can affort that
So far Hank had good goods… Last good batch of GP-G2 S4 2B were from his store. I bought over 800$ from his store but now… Until I resolve this issue I really can’t be confident to buy again. I did not asked him for refund either…
I only asked him to send me real XP-G2 S4 2B emitters which I will pay cause I have waiting costumers for flashlights, and I can’t deploy them flashlight with low performing emitters he sent.
So if I can’t confidently buy from him from whom to buy now?
If anyone has old batch of this emitters ordered before November 2015 and they don’t need them I am willing to buy them.
And of course I agree we should all buy Djozz more expensive testing equipment. Buck or two from all of us and he’ll get it.
You just reminded me … I bought last 8 pcs he had couple of month ago XPG2 S4 2B bare was £2.25 each + 8£ shipping. They were good although a little rusty from bottom layer of emitter. Will ask him…
