Couldn’t see any mention of it elsewhere. Looks interesting, and I wonder how moddable it is?
I saw it on the website but couldn’t find any reviews on here, guess it is too new. never owned a zoomie and was hoping to pick this one up once I find some form of approval or review.
Zoomie fever is back.
Cooling fins on the slider!!! Even the sk68 has them where they are supposed to be: on the body, so that the heat can actually get there.
Here is a German overview of the light.
Hi Guys
Haven’t been too active recently, but was doing some research TOTALLY unrelated to this. That’s why I say “darn the bug” cause now I’ve found a totally unrelated situation unavoidably interesting!
Anyhow, just happened to notice that Solarforce’s site lists “XPL (V6 grade in brightness) high-power output LED”
(http://www.solarforceflashlight-sales.com/product_detail.php?t=LF&s=26&id=851)
From the sharp pattern in the video, I figured this was probably a “High Intensity” XPL (see ~1:08 to 1:10 in the video).
But I’d been looking into the XPLs for curiosity and something rang funny in my head. Anyways, looking it up, the Cree Data Sheet lists up to V5 for the “high density” and only V2 for the “high intensity”
http://cree.com/~/media/Files/Cree/LED-Components-and-Modules/XLamp/Data-and-Binning/ds-XPL.pdf.
Of course it’s not surprising for a mfg to have a bin higher that the datasheets, but FOUR bins?
My knowledge of refractive lens flashlights is limited to the following: “I ain’t got one, I want one, and one is long overdue for my stables”
The reason I bring this up is the question of “if this is performance possible with a ”high density” XPL, what could a “high intensity” XPL do (even at a somewhat lesser Lumen output).
I should note that my ideal in a light like this would be to project an emitter image with as little peripheral light as possible and that may not be the interest of others. Even as things stand, for a Solarforce (I’ve always thought them on the high quality end of “budget”) this light looks excellent. I just figured those of more technical merit might want to consider what I have noted here (if it is filtered by ignorance, please feel free to clear me up). If this is a “high density” XPL, might it not be blown away by a lower bin “high intensity”? And unless I’m in error with my understanding (which is 70% likely) I thought this might be something some folks would want to look into before going this route.
Best wishes, thanks always for your expertise
Tim