The There Are No Stupid Questions Thread

Depends if you’re talking about 1500lm at 20C ambient without breeze or outside at 10C with breeze, and at which regulated temperature.

In this Zebralight SC700D review Zebralight SC700d – A Short Technical Review (lumens/runtime graphs/temperature/PWM/current draw)
It does 900lm inside, 2000lm inside with fan, and ~1700 outside at 7C ambient with wind gusts.
The SC700D uses an XHP70.2 5000K 90CRI driven by an efficient boost converter in a light body so that’s pretty impressive already, a low CRI LED would do even better.

I wonder how well a D4Sv2 (with boost driver) with low CRI cool white LH351Ds would do (most efficient 3535 3V LED), XHP35.2s would do a bit better, and with a 5050 MCPCB, XHP50.3s, I’m thinking it would be pretty close to the 1500lm target at room temp.

As for copper, it’s not really useful except for adding weight and increasing a bit turbo duration thanks to its ~1.4 volumetric heat capacity vs aluminium, but that doesn’t matter for sustained output.