It's not so easy to do what you think. You cannot just slap an aspheric lens on top of that 9 xml array. The lens (every lens) focuses in one point. The emitter (led) must be on that point, precisely, for the lens to redirect the light all in one tight beam. And lens + reflector don't work. But even removing the reflectors, at best you would have one led in the correct focus point, the other would just add a lot of lumens but scattered in wrong directions as spill.
If you want a tight beam with high lux hotspot and no spill, the answer is one single emitter. With a single very well driven XM-L your max output is in the range of 1000 lumens.
With a large reflector you have throw but also quite a lot of spill. With an aspheric you cut the spill and have a tight throwy beam. You could see if Crelant 7G5V2 plus aspheric head suits your needs. It's not very small, though...
Any other multi-emitter combo light will output thousands of lumens but with very powerfull spill too.
A Varapower 2000 or VPT with an aspheric lens would be pretty sweet. 4c Nimh batteries pushing the sst90 or a newer SBT90 at 9-12 amps would be truelly awesome. I don’t think you could use the cheap aspheric lenses from dx, they might melt lol
He can build you a TK61 that will rock your world. Because he’s a store owner, his lights are not exactly mods, but of course they are exactly that too. But he’s got the resources and the background to guarantee his lights like few others can.
Outside of that, An Olight SR-90 Intimidator modified with a XM-L2 de-domed will do a mile in throw. There are other’s here that have hit that mile and maybe then some with an aspheric. But it’s gonna have to be modified as there aren’t any manufacturer’s that I know of willing to go all out like this.
Don’t YOU want the most powerful thrower available? Haven’t things changed in the past 3 years? Still want that beast, right? More likely to get it now than then…
Never enough,if you ask me Dale ! One day I will blind myself trying to determine witch hotspot is brighter :bigsmile:
Just saying there are more then one thread currently in recent posts that’s creator’s haven’t been here for a while…
I am also seeking max throw. Just for the fun of it.
I use a atmospheric head with xr-e 7090 ez900. I drive this led at 1,5 amp (xr-e is rated at max 1 amp).
I also have dedomed an xr-e but I can’t see any differences between the normal and the dedomed xr-e except that the dedomed xr-e has gotten an ugly greenish color. I have ordered an 2 amp driver. I want to see if that makes any difference. At 2 amp an xr-e should produce about 300 lumen.
To try a little bigger led I have chosen an xp-g2 led. I am planning to drive it at 3 amp (max rated at 1,5 amp). With that much current it should give me about 600 lumen.
But probably we get the max throw with an xhp70 @ 8 amp with a very large reflector. That should produce about 4800 lumen :evil:
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i can recommend the EagTac M25C2 Turbo This has a really huge head. The light is on sale in different stores at the moment. I think there might come a new version soon. I modded the light with XP-G2 S2 1D dedomed and FET driver. With some beamtuning i got ~790 Klux (range ~1777m) with Sony VTC5.
Here compared to some other lights.
Distance to the weir ~160m. Nikon P100, f=4,5, 0,5 Sec.
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Thrunite TN32 UT (modded) 407 Klux
Nitecore TM36 Lite (Stock) 310 Klux
EagTac M25C2 Turbo (modded) 790 Klux
Blue Star (modded) 981 Klux
And a direct comparison of the Blue Star and the M25C2 Turbo with ~430m distance. Almost no difference. I increased the brightness of the photos a little bit because they were a bit too dark.
This has a really huge head. The light is on sale in different stores at the moment. I think there might come a new version soon. I modded the light with XP-G2 S2 1D dedomed and FET driver. With some beamtuning i got ~790 Klux (range ~1777m) with Sony VTC5.
