Browsing for Nichia UV leds I came across this Jaxman flashlight, a new brand to me but good and quality looking. Are they related to the already known 'Jax' brand? They seem to be keen using recent and quality leds. There's not many models though (yet?).
This Jaxman U1 used to come with a chinese 365nm led (at hkequipment.net it is for sale with no mention of Nichia), but now it is also available with a Nichia 276A U365. The price is not bad: $60 on Aliexpress. It even has a visible light blocking filter, nice!, necessary when the chinese led was used, but even for the Nichia it will help blocking the small amount of visible light.
They also do high CRI Nichia 219B lights (in the picture a 219C is even visible, but in the text and in the flashlight is a 219B shown) for 16 dollar;
That is a nice new model with lots of good features and easy to mod, I like it a lot! Only length-wise it disappoints: only 4.6mm shorter than an S2+, with the TIR-set-up they could have gone shorter than that, at least another 5mm.
The 2.1A driver made me giggle a little too.
But then I remembered that it will give you the stated 900 lumens, which is enough for 99% of customers.
The remaining 1% will drop a FET driver in it for a couple bucks more and maybe swap emitters.
What I see is a good host, the first one in a tube shape that is dedicated to triple.
So maybe I’ll bite
yep, the 4mm thick ledboard shelf and even some finning in the head makes it a pretty good candidate for at least a 2000 lumen mod. I may bite too :innocent:
