Only if Neal can pack and ship roughly 140 boxes a day for 5 days straight. I have no clue how many he can do. He’s going to try and get as many out as he can. The rest will be packed and shipped starting in early January.
It didn’t seem to loose that many lumens actually, although I could not measure the exact amount. The bigger issue for me is the tint shift. While far less noticeable then old school dedoming it still does give it a bit of a tint shift. Not enough for me to write it off but enough for me to not automatically want it.
The flat black would be for the fun of it since I have the old V1 prototype that would just be sitting there otherwise.
Ok you talked me into it :laughing: I don’t have much measurement equipment though. It would be like giving a kid the Hope Diamond and they treat it like a pet rock :person_facepalming: Maybe after the new year I can place an order for a second one and test them side by side. Or send it off to a member on here that has better measurement equipment than I do.
I’m still thinking about wavien collars from time to time.
I should ask the guys at optolife if they could make something similar…
Maybe once I get the GT and experiment a bit with the aspheric lens. I doubt I will heavily mod my light, but if I could get my hands on a wavien collar (or lookalike), that would give me the motivation to go ahead and do the full modding package.
The black flat is the same 1mm^2 die as the E2 but has much higher output and intensity, which is why everyone is using it these days for the top throwers.
Yeah that would also work, however I think most people would prefer the 70.2 simply for more lumens
It’s a trade off between lumens/spot size and throw.
The 1600m was with a sliced dome 70.2. A domed 50.2 has the same size hotspot, but less output so it’s not really an upgrade. You’d need to slice the dome on the 50.2 to get a smaller hotspot and more throw.
Exactly. The GT team decided that the XHP35-HI was the best tradeoff for this light design. It’s got good lumens and a good sized hotspot so that you can see what it’s shining at.
Luckily this driver Del designed is quite flexible and can be adjusted to handle xhp50 and xhp70 levels of power.
I don’t know why people want smaller hotspots. What can you see with an xpg2 or black flat? A tiny little dot way out in the distance? I’ve had lights like that. I didn’t like them.
