MT-G2 Budget Flashlights

Any idea when those babies will hit the budget scene?

I mean flashlights like “SKYRAY KUNG M4” housing MT-G2 leds or any other high amp budget xml flashlight…
Anyone has some clue? Now that would have some serious wow factor and I might even consider getting 18650!!

Is that a troll post or something?

It's going to be hard to put 4 $25 emitters in a 'budget' light and keep a budget price.

O, So I guess it’s always (for the moment) going to be modding xm-l budget lights into MT-G2 ones…

i think the solarforce k3 with l2 body was the most budget deal… 60-70 something if i remember correctly

the led runs $30-35 by itself these days… kinda like luminous

worth it in my opinion… stunning neutral tint and efficient :slight_smile:

Look at the zener diode mod on the nanjg105 driver.

It would be nice to see them come out with some but I won’t hold my breath and I know they will not have any multi-MT-G2’s in budget for a very long time. So for now it’s just modding.

The cheapest ones I have done are Ultrafire X8’s and Small Sun ZY-T08’s. They both make really nice hosts. Still they cost a minimum of $50 to put together and that’s if you get the hosts on sale.

+1

It's going to be hard, even for the Chinese. First off, it's not the most popular emitter and then there's the cost, as well as not having a driver for multiple MT-G2 leds. I just don't see that happening soon, because the volume sold opportunity would be a lot less than an XM-L or XM-L2 light. Then, even if they did it, they would only run each led at 2 amps, (while claiming 15,000 lumens) and who would really want it, except to mod it?

MT-G2, much huge, 50 times output of xm-l. 50000 lumens. Ours run 90000 lumens using special method. Don’t shine indoors, catch walls on fire.

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but it won’t be the wall on fire, the smoke will actually have come from the “aluminum” head :bigsmile:

HAHAHAHAH :bigsmile:

Interesting.

So with this kit, would the driver output the required 6v for an MTG2 even when powered by a single 18650? Or would the modded board require higher voltage input (such as 2 cells)?

I’d suggest that with multi MTG-2 there’d have to be a new method of cooling as well.

You'll need two.

I’m interested in multi MT-G2 leds on a single flashlight. Now 2 or 3 of them would really bring sunshine at night and make some jaws drop and break :smiley:

How much volts does the MT-G2 need? I’m a newb when it comes to modding and I surely won’t try to mod a $25 emitter until I do a few crappy mods :smiley:

EDIT: I never knew that a MT-G2 costed $25. That is a prohibitive price. I’m sure premium manufacturers also won’t embrace it too much being given that they can

  1. pass the cost to the consumer
  2. absorb the cost (We all know about the huge markups in the flashlight industry)
  3. Break the pie and share the cost. But then again at $25 per unit, a 3 emitter flashlight would cost $75 in led alone! Insane.

You don’t need 3 emitters, but if there were a boost driver for a single li ion that would likely facilitate its adoption

The Small Sun ZYT08 which runs on 2 series 18650’s and a single MT-G2 emitter and has huge almost absurd amounts of spill/flood and decent throw but the emitter takes quite a bit of juice to power it,with keepower 3400 mAH it an only run on Turbo for 5 minutes before it has to step down high. Don’t get me wrong it is my”go-to-wow”lights and my personal favorite but it takes a lot of power to run the MT-G2 and as other member have mentioned the are fairly costly.