Thorfire S70 clone ?

[Kusie]

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In retrospect, the clone emitters I pulled from the ebay SRK light were actually doing a pretty good job. Beam profile and overall color accuracy was maybe even better than the Cree XM-L’s I put in it, and the jump from 1683 to 1811 lumens may very well have been the larger 20 ga wires. I have no idea of course as to whether or not they would have made more or less heat, but getting 1800 lumens from 9 emitters means none of them are being driven hard enough to really make much heat, even combined.

Hey,

nice image, I have a very similar SkyRay light, almost the same board (labeled HND-XGP-7), only the 7 emitter version, but I have the same LB XM-L clones on it: - The Fake-Cree LED Awareness Thread - The new "low" in Budget lights. - #690 by Kusie

You´re right, the light they make is actually not bad, cold white of course, but not too blueish. I also like the beam structure of the torch. The 7 emitter version outputs maybe 1200 real lumens that means below 200 lumens per LED … not much. Nevertheless I decided to use thermal paste on the ledge where the “dry” board sits on to have at least some kind of heat transfer to the body and BOY does this thing get hot when running on high for 20 minutes!

One of the major advanges of these cans for me is that the cells are parallel, that means it also runs with one cell.
It actually makes a good camping light if you´re running it on low mostly.
K.