The TR-1200 has been around for a while. I ordered mine from FT. The stock emitters were five nasty off center XR-E Q5 and a driver that put out about 2A total.
I replaced the Q5s with XP-G2 S2 2B. This torch has one of those screw in/drop in type reflector and pill. I was limited in driver type by diameter and depth, so I opted for a small toroid 5A driver. In parallel that would give me 1A per emitter. There is terrible heat sinking on this light, so that was fine.
Normally I'd prefer a separate set of wires from each LED, but had no space for ten wires and had to wire a home run with 26AWG wire. Very little clearance. The stock MCPCBs were 10mm. I wanted to use centering discs, but needed the wire pads to clear the discs, so I ground down some 12 or 14mm aluminum stars to fit. I don't think I've ever removed LEDs from Noctigons in order to mount them on aluminum before.
HIGH POWER XENON?
FastTech must be cobbling lights together with obsolete stock.
Anyway, this light has a most unusual hot spot. I haven't built any multi-emitter lights using XP-G2 before, but I wasn't expecting this.
The hot spot is huge and perfectly defined. Usually in multi-emitter lights the hot spot is softened around the edges and blends into the spill, but this hotspot looks like its painted on the wall, like a massive C8 beam profile. It looks like it should be aimed at a stage framing Garbo singing "falling in love again"
Do I like it? You bet! I don't have another light with a beam profile like it.
that reminds me, i had one of these ol school tr-1200’s back when i first started this hobby.
it was one of my first and most powerful lights.
i handed it down to my younger brother. he still uses it very much and loves the thing.
maybe i should surprise him with a modern upgrade….
so im assuming xml’s wont fit the q5 reflectors huh? with the xpg’s is the light brighter now?
how about the spill vs q5 spill?
i remember this light being pretty floody with decent spill with them q5’s.
XML will fit perfectly in the TR-1200. I used centering discs that convert XPG to an XML reflector. Any multi emitter shallow reflector is going to be floody no matter what emitter you put in it.
The Q5s gave a washy-washy ringy underpowered flood. Since I was going to run it at 1A per emitter, I decided that the XP-G2 would be more efficient, and a bit less floody than XML. With a five emitter reflector, your not going to be able to escape flood, but the XPGs seem to have optimized the hotspot with a “batman signal” type beam profile.
I wasn’t even going to post this build since the TR-1200 Q5 has been around for so long I figured it had been done to death.
When I started searching the site for other builds, I couldnt find any threads on mods to this light. I’m sure there have been some, but no one bothered to start a thread. Or perhaps when this light first came out, modding wasn’t as prevalent as it is now.
true.
but i also think its because they started releasing j12 and j18’s and the other multi emitters with xmls.
so most didnt wanna bother upgrading theirs. but yes, im surprised no one has released multi xpg2
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