Uniquefire HS-802 green

[keltex78]

I modded (and subsequently sold) a green-emitter thrower using a Dongrui All-920 and a green XR-E emitter that was driven at 2.1A using a Nanjg 105c with 2 of the 7135s removed. It was bright at the time and I never received any complaints from the buyer. I don't know if it would handle long runtimes without burning the emitter, but it was impressive! Details here:

https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/15870

[dthrckt]

I wonder why my green xr-es won’t go as high (current) as others have gotten with same driver. Definitely not the cells I’m using….

I bought highest bin xre green I could get from Mouser….

[Gurthang]

The Cree XP-E has a max rated output of 114 lm @ 350 mA

The XP-E2 is max rated to 122 lm @ 350 mA

Compare that to the XR-E rated t 67 lm @ 350 mA

[Dimbo_The_Blinky]

@Gurthang

The Cree XP-E has a max rated output of 114 lm @ 350 mA

The XP-E2 is max rated to 122 lm @ 350 mA

Compare that to the XR-E rated t 67 lm @ 350 mA

+1.

And it’s a mod the OP could do with minimal effort/skill/tools.

And the Green XP-E still only takes a maximum of 1A (according to Cree, who could just be lying), meaning the existing driver should be “adequate”. At least “for now”…

I wonder if the reflectors are compatible?

[dthrckt]

@Dimbo The Blinky

@dthrckt

if you were a real night hunter, you wouldn’t have that opinion

Dude. WTF?

Would you like to explain that?

I’d also like your assessment of how a “high quality 18650 direct drive” somehow “can’t get more than 1.4A at the tail”.

I’m not going to embarrass the OP arguing with a True Believer. He has hogs to kill. You will too, even way up North, soon enough, if more people like him don’t get off their couches and start shooting. I’m just trying to help him NOT kill someone’s dog or a couple of kids spooning in the bushes. If we can help him find another ~100 yards of useful illumination, so much the better.

Since you’re a “real night hunter” and LED master, you obviously know his little .223 has more “throw” than most of the LEDs we can afford to buy, and even my pellet rifle can “out-throw” an XR-E. That means he will not be able to see where his bullet hits, for most of its flight. But I guess a “‘’real night hunter”:http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/no-true-scotsman/’’ wouldn’t care about all that, right?

With a nickname that looks like “DeathRocket”, I expected better, even from “upstate”.

i assumed you’re implying he should use white light. if you’ve hunted hogs, as I have (in florida), you’d know they don’t stick around for white light

green isn’t tacticool - it works

if you can’t tell this difference between a dog and a hog, or what is behind your target, green or white won’t matter

I can’t get over 1.4A because of the Vf.

sorry you got butthurt

[dthrckt]

if you want a lot more green light - sst-90

expensive, but worth it. very easy to de-dome.

despite the throw numbers, it is MUCH more usable than xpe/xre green because there’s just sooo much light

A few beamshots - I need camera help

OK, so, this is my first attempt at using manual settings with my panasonic dmc-zs8 as far as I can tell, I used manual white balance set to 0, iso 400, F3.5 and some other setting is at 1/4 :Sp the manual interface sucks, imho. and so does the weather. anyway, the photos look dimmer, and slightly warmer, than what I’m seeing in person, but I’ll look at them again on a different monitor tomorrow that has more accurate color. distance to the dog houses/back fence is maybe 45 yards? For refer…

[Gurthang]

Big emitter, not certain it would fit the stock reflector.

[dthrckt]

good point

didn’t have to mod the 7g5v2 reflector, but I think I would have had to if I didn’t dedome.

[Sirius9]

I am using XP-E with ordinary Nanjg 101, works fine althout I did not do a runtime test (left it on max for a prolonged time)…

[penumbra]

18.99 ebay 2 ours ago

[kevind43]

Hi guys,

I build primarily lights with RED and GREEN emitters for hunting Predators and other critters at night. I just finished 5 Small Sun ZY-T13’s. Four with Green XPE-2 and a white one with XPG-2 for a hog hunter in Texas. The green xpe-2’s are mounted on copper sinkpads and I drilled and tapped the housing to screw down the stars with a thin layer of AS-5. The ANO was removed from the housing also. The greens are being driven at 2.1A. The output is an astonishing 85Kcd(148Kcd w/66mm aspheric lens). This is up from the last batch of T13’s i built with the old XPE held in place with AA epoxy and driven at 1.4A and put out a respectable 35Kcd. Even after 30 minutes of runtime the drop in throw is only about 2%.

The white XPG-2 is putting out about 151Kcd(334Kcd w/ 66mm aspheric lens) at 3.8A.

The T13 and lights with similiar reflectors produce a beam very well suited for night hunting.

The data sheets are good guidelines and have alot of good info, combined with the output graph’s that Match has done for us and newer assembly techniques these color emitters can be driven harder than ever before.

[kevind43]

I have built a couple HS-802’s as well. The output of the stock HS-802 can be increased substantially. The brass pills are available. If you put a high bin xpe-2(red or green)on a copper sinkpad and drive it at 1.4A, you will not be dissapointed.

Note: Like dthrckt mentioned with a green emitter in a single 18650 light, much more than 1.4A and the Vf goes too high and the single battery wont work.

[dthrckt]

whoo hoo! guess i’ve been away too long, didn’t know xpe2 came in colors now!

sad part is, now I need to buy some and rebuild the lights I put together just a few months ago lol

[kevind43]

@dthrckt

whoo hoo! guess i’ve been away too long, didn’t know xpe2 came in colors now!

sad part is, now I need to buy some and rebuild the lights I put together just a few months ago lol

PM sent . don’t wan’t to stink up the OP too much.

[dthrckt]

@five.five-six

I recently purchased this light for hog hunting:

uniquefire

First time out, I was quite impressed. I had my doubts about it, I must say. It has a nice narrow beam, just like I was looking for. Problem is it just ain’t powerful enough. What are my choices as far as modding goes? I definitely want to keep it single mode. Is it worthy?

Thanks,
Steve

P.S. I’m a noob to the mod game. So go easy on me.

Yes, it is worthy.

Maybe kevin would hook you up with an xpe2 green on copper pad - you would only need to unsolder the wires to the current emitter, put a little thermal grease on the bottom of the new one, and solder the wires to it.

[kevind43]

@dthrckt

@five.five-six

I recently purchased this light for hog hunting:

uniquefire

First time out, I was quite impressed. I had my doubts about it, I must say. It has a nice narrow beam, just like I was looking for. Problem is it just ain’t powerful enough. What are my choices as far as modding goes? I definitely want to keep it single mode. Is it worthy?

Thanks,
Steve

P.S. I’m a noob to the mod game. So go easy on me.

Yes, it is worthy.

Maybe kevin would hook you up with an xpe2 green on copper pad - you would only need to unsolder the wires to the current emitter, put a little thermal grease on the bottom of the new one, and solder the wires to it.

Not a bad idea.

I stopped selling red and green drop-ins for the c8 and hs-802. It takes a while to get the focus just right on these lights. Shims, spacers, filing, grinding, etc. Manufacturing tolerances from china are bad, bad on the cheaper lights. Would need to send the whole light.

[Sirius9]

@kevind43

The green xpe-2’s are mounted on copper sinkpads and…

Where did you get green and red XP-E 2 emitters?

[kevind43]

Mouser

[blitzwing]

Done a red xp-e pill for my Solarforce M3, 1.4a driver for fox hunting.

Going to do a green one next just to try.

[Sirius9]

@kevind43

Mouser

Cr*p, mouser is not accessible to me but thanks for the info, I will just have to wait until others start to sale them…

Edit: Yes it is (mouser, accesible), but shipping is 20$ …