yes i have a deftx coming as well - my last battery is on charge now… getting all fired up over here!
michaels spec for this light is 405kcd… mine is about 6% above that… he actually put together a few tn31mbs and said they tested at 360-380kcd i believe and he did not send them out because he was disappointed with the results… where else will you get THAT kind of QC?
i believe he uses the stock driver - i havent taken it apart yet to see… the de-domed xpg2 is mounted on copper to help with heat transfer… there are also “focal point enhancements”
Very cool. I have a TN31mb ordered too. I don’t have have mine yet though - was ordered about a week later & 16 lights (invoice #) after yours.
Please try to post up some beamshots if/when you can. I’m really looking forward to getting hands on my light.
i just fired it up…. nuts…. i cant even look at the hotspot on a white wall 20 feet away without getting arc eyes from it because its so intense… my cats were chasing it around like a laser pointer too!
the lowest mode is very very nice… its probably around 30 lumens or so…. on high i would say its some where around 650-750 lumens just by eye
I’m glad to see the light does have some spill and a fair amount of lumen output. I’ve been worried about both of those issues. Very cool. Thanks for the photos and please keep them coming.
Was considering one of these, but would prefer to wait longer, pay double and get double (deft x)
I do a bit of SAR in my job so it can be partly a tax write off
i am going outside later tonight to try and get some beamshots… i really only have my cell phone camera… my digital camera takes blurry photos all the time and is a pos.