i have one jacob a60 with dedome led q5 original base 16 mm alu.
i have replace the driver with nanj 9x 350A (=+3 Amp)
its now one large useful bright spill trow i love it.
ofter +–10 minuts on high it become a little hot but not so mutch
can i this drive to 4 or 5 AMP ? 12 x350A?
normal it is +–1 or 1,5 Amp driver i think?
i thank you for the exellent video on youtube for how to drive up the nanj drivers.
your groupsbuy and videos are great!
i am a fan of your work and wish you lucky.
It's a de-domed XRE Q5, on the stock star? If so, 3A is probably well beyond it's point of effective output, so any higher amps, the heat sag will probably reduce output.
I would go with a XP-E2 on a sinkpad. That you can drive up to around 2.5amps. You can put an XP-G2 in but it’s really hard to get in focus if you do.
Tom is correct on your current setup. No point going with more amps you would actually lose lumens by pushing it too hard.
I’m going to leave it as it is now working … it is very good for the price.
but with a xpe2 I would have more light, but as much spill / trow?
I have 2 in order for my ios UF 20
perhaps as few noctigons mtg order and set up a XRE? better heatsinking.
You should get more throw with the XP-E2 than the XP-G2, but the XP-G2 has more lumens.
XP-E2 is just a more efficient version of the emitter that is now in it. So given the same current it will produce more light. They can both handle about the same amount of amps. Putting them on a sinkpad allows you to drive them harder without losing lumens as fast to thermal sag. Without the sinkpad the emitters will dim quickly at higher amps. With the newer XP-E2 on a sinkpad you will get more lumens in the same package and with the sinkpad those lumens will stay up there much longer so you can drive it a little harder too. So you will have the same beam profile just a brighter light, more throw and more spill. Also with the sinkpad/noctigon you will not be stressing the emitter trying to push too hard so you should get longer life out of the emitter.
maybe next week i have the xpe2.
its the first time i use xpe2
i let it know here if it has better.
thaks for your opinions all
Good luck and have fun with your mod!