Today I modded a Fandyfire SP02 with a sliced XHP70.2. I bought this light about 2 years ago to be a lightweight and compact thrower. It has a 63mm head with a ~53mm active reflector diameter. I think it has the same reflector as the HD2010 and Mitko’s budget thrower light. I had a dedomed XPL V6 in it that did around 240kcd. Then I modded my Emisar D1S with a 2mm white flat that had around the same throw (and almost as many lumens) in a lighter more compact package, so I thought of other things I could do with the Fandyfire.
The quality of the machining and anodization of this light seems pretty good to me. It came with your standard pill with a pretty thin shelf. I had destroyed this pill in the process of making the light into a Fresnel thrower. I made the current new pill back when I was in the machine shop making my 7xC8 light. You have to get this reflector down pretty low to get good focus. The MCPCB is 20mm. I used folded up copper tape to make thin contact extensions, then I covered them with the thick plastic gaskets you can get from mtnelectronics. These came with XP sized holes so I enlarged with an exacto knife. The reflector hole fits just about perfectly around the XHP70.2 so no centering ring was needed. The driver is a 22mm FET from mtnelectronics with just basic FW. I want TK’s crescendo on it but that is not an option from mtnelectronics for FET-only drivers, so this will have to do until I overcome the energy barrier to start flashing FW again.
I can’t take the tail cap off easily on this light so I haven’t measured the current. With 2 charged 30Qs the output based on a ceiling bounce is about 3.8x the output of my EE X6 with dedomed SST40 at ~8A, so in the area of 6600 lumens. I measured 175kcd. The beam profile looks like the EE X6 with dedomed SST40, but with ~1.3x larger diameter. I had been wanting to do a single sliced XHP70.2 mod and I’m pleased with this outcome. It really is a potent combination of output and throw when combined with a good-sized reflector.