firmware is 0000-2024-04-20, which is the 50% FET version.
Default Ceiling level of 130/150 gives about 450 lumens, momentary maximum on a fully charged stock battery
Turbo on my meter, which reads a bit low, is 640 lumens. Almost 50% of the 1400 lumen spec, part of the shortfall in output (not quite 700 lm) could be due to the warm white 3000K emitter.
Tint is Terrible, sort of a greenish mustard yellow when whitewall hunting, although when waking up in the dark of night, the tint is not noticeable, at moonlight outputs. This light might get modded to DD 4500K 519a
The host itself is gorgeous, and very nicely finish polished (no concentric lathe tooling marks). It weighs 92 grams w stock battery, by contrast my aluminum TS10 weights 48 grams w battery. The copper is almost double the weight…
Tint DUV increases w ouput, on Level 5 of 7 which is about 104 lumens, DUV is 0.0031. When using level 6 of 7, output goes up to 220 lumens, and DUV goes up to 0.0066:
I am a big fan of the 50% FET firmware, I consider its default outputs much more realistic for such a small light, with such fragile LEDs as the CSP are.
I like the 50% Turbo firmware so much, that I have reflashed my TS10SG to use it. My MAO TS10 4000K also comes w the 50% FET firmware… Im very happy w it.
That tint looks terrible. I have a TS10 brass version with 3000K LED and the tint is not bad. It’s not rosy but no where near as green as your sample. I’d say its pretty much dead on neutral.
And i have a question - would be the least painful way to swap the emitters in copper TS10? I love the host, but absolutely hate the tint.
Ideally i’d just reflow something onto existing MCPCB - are there any known emitter which would fit and be better? Or is there anyone selling MCPCBs suitable for something like 3x519A on aliexpress? I have a few of those…
Also, any tips on defeating glue without doing damage?
Unfortunately, I damaged my Cu TS10 when I used tools to unscrew the bezel, so it is no longer perfectly round. Though the bezel still screws on and off, the mcpcb would not come out, so I was unable to install the new mcpcb w DeDomed 519a:
To help defeat the glue, I heated the copper head on my hotplate at 100C for 5 minutes. But my leather wrap kept slipping, and I kept making the tool tighter, which led to deforming the soft copper.
If I did it again, I would try using skateboard grip tape, which is adhesive, wrapped around the head and bezel, so the leather would not slip, and the bezel might be able to be unscrewed without using so much clamping pressure…
This pic shows the tools I used (Vise Grips), successfully, to open a TS10SG:
Why wouldn’t they just use 519a i stead? 3000k and 4000k. I mean what cost difference would it make? I don’t mind paying more than $10 for a flashlight with good LED
That’s unfortunate and makes me reluctant to even try… i understand why they have to glue it, but so much glue is just evil and i wish there was a better way…
And sadly that MCPCB is probably unobtainable for me… if there were sources i would be able to order a batch myself, but shipping one MCPCB to me would be totally and absolutely impractical…
Sad, because i’d sure like to put 3x519A 2700K dedomed into this host…
