Wow, I wish they had an actual xhp70.3 hi high cri option because the price of 3 new xhp70 is not negligible. Does the flat led give a nice beam?
I haven’t tested one with domeless emitters yet but based on some posts on r/flashlight, I gather it produces a very nice beam.
Those emitters aren’t cheap but the light can be had for about $100 right now if you use all the available discounts, which is a steal.
“it would be nice if Wuben also offered a warmer, high-CRI option too. Emitter swaps are fairly easy in X1 and many r/flashlight users have already swapped in ~4000K high-CRI XHP70.3-HI’s into their X1s. I encourage Wuben to offer those as a factory option in the future.”
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I pretty much came to type exactly this before I even read the review. I’ve been hiring someone to swap 4000K 90 CRI XHP70.3s into some of my lights, and it makes a big difference when the light originally came with an XHP70.2 with ~70 CRI, colder CCT, and nasty tint shift. It’s a drastic improvement.
The king of pocketable flooders to me is still the S21D (quad-519A with 60 degree TIR.) Would I try the X1 at a certain price point with better emitter options? Probably. I try tons of lights out, and sell the ones I don’t want to keep on ebay. I look at the money lost in the process as a rental fee. There’s nothing that replaces first-hand experience with something, IMO.
Thanks for the heads up! Holy cow that is an absolute F*****g steal for what this light provides. USB-C recharge, power bank, super portable 2x21700 form factor. Now I’m deciding what color to buy
How to get it for a ~100$? I see 150 on the site, minutes 15% for newsletter, but that’s still 127?
In that post, he later says that he tried it and it doesn’t work any more.
…power bank…
The article specifically says there is no powerbank feature.
You can sign up to get a coupon code but it is still not $100 but close enough. I Just bought two, a black and a white one.
Oof, I was a couple hours late it seems.
Yeah I know it’s not much more, but at a 100$ I was tempted to get it, but the additional 20$ managed to cool me down a bit ^^. Hopefully they come out with the 4kK hi cri version, maybe then I’ll budge ^^
I had read that the high cri xhp 70.3 Hi was greenish so I ended up getting the 70 cri 4000K from convoy. It’s pretty good, though I still would have preferred high cri. That said, the stock LED was puke green so this is a definite improvement.
I have four of the high CRI XHP70.3 HI. Their duvs as measured with Opple LM3:
-0.0011
+0.0004
+0.0005
+0.0007
Pretty much dead neutral.
Note: these were not from Convoy, they were from wherever ArtieT bought his, so it’s entirely possible that the Convoy ones ARE green depending on bin.
I was looking at Kaidomain. I would love to know where to get good ones with that kind of duv
Who is Artie? How much does he charge for modding this? Also what is the CCT?
Artiet59 is a well-known modder on Reddit (in r/flashlight.) I’m not sure if he has a presence on BLF or not. Mine are all 4000K. I’d rather have you ask him directly for the current pricing on LED swaps, rather than speaking for him and possibly using old information.
@ArtieT59 is also on BLF