Admittedly, my links aren’t very obvious though, hidden in the image & brief description
I do like steel or titanium lights much more than ano aluminium.
Me either really, quads are interesting for the novelty in smaller hosts but triple setups are better in my opinion. Not much noticable increase in output, you notice the heat more
Could be a little more efficient.
The 106xx optics are good for filling slightly larger heads at 24mm compared to the 20mm triple optics so can be useful for that & more flood.
Oh, they’re obvious. I was just not thinking to click & check.
I’ve got enough ano-aluminum bodied lights at this point that I’m going to be drifting over to steel & titanium. I had been thinking about a SS FW3A… but I don’t want to start duplicating lights. That LM10 just mentioned by Neal (LINK), looks terrific, but is overpriced IMHO. I’m hoping Neal is just testing the waters for Lumintop right now and that a more agreeable price will come out of it. Either for release or after the fact when sales languish. The bronze treated Ti looks amazing. But I won’t be interested unless there’s an 18350 tube accessory available for it.
Very light day… I changed the led in my E05 to an XP-L V4 5A2 and built up a beautiful copper P60 shell with XP-L Hi V2 5A3’s and a TA FET+6+1 that I soldered up. I really like the tint and output of the Cree XP-L’s in the 5A2 and 5A3 range. I would love to try out the 5A1 or 5A4, but have never seen them forsale.
Well, actually changed the led in the E05 twice, never drop an XP-G3 in that light! Had the strangest artifacts I have ever seen! Tiny little bit of the center was very bright and the rest was very splotchy. I really thought it would be a good candidate for the XP-G3 5 bin.
Over the weekend I built an old SmallSun ZY-T08 host I picked up from a member here over the summer. No build pics so I’ll just have to tell y’all about it:
Sst-20 DA L3 (5000k)
TA 3ch 22mm driver piggyback on stripped factory driver for contact board
Bistro fw
Blue springs @ tail contact
It’s currently doing 100kcd and 920lm but the sst-20 is just a place holder while I wait on the 28mm 5050 mcpcb for the 5700K SST-40 I have for it.
I built it to run an old matched pair of 30q’s that still have near full capacity but are getting a little old to use in the 2s light they came from so I figured I’d keep them together but in a 2p config for near 6000mAh while being a bit safer with their age and all.
Sucks is an understatement. I have never seen such a bad reflector/led combo! I really did not expect that! I expected the relatively larger die surface and the small smooth reflector to really work well! But the XP-L works very well. It came to me with a Luxeon V2 5000k and I could not stand the 5000k and it just felt odd in the reflector.
I agree. The 2mm^2 emitter approaches XPL HI output with much higher luminance, as long as you are ok with the cool color temp. What driver did you use? I’ve been eyeing the constant current FET drivers from convoy. Seems like this type of driver could replace all the FET+ drivers if we can get the right FWs on them.
Unno, I got the Wuben E01 that uses one, and it’s a bit ringy and halo-y, lots of color-bleed all over. Not terrible, but I wouldn’t ooh and aah at the beam. The SOS is a killer, though. :confounded:
Wondering if any optix for triples/quads could be diced up to fit the hole and not need spacers or anything. Might fix a multitude of sins…
Throw is a bit less than the 1mm2, even at 7A (but it is still throwier than a dedomed XP-G2 S4 2B), you get more light and a bigger spot. Tint is similar.
Interesting, the hotspot of the 1mm combined with a large reflector is a very tiny hotspot.
Result: it throws like a beast, but actually its more fun to show your lightsaber laserbeam pencilbeam then using it.
Its quite useless actually, but fun.
1. I changed the LED in a New RRT-01 to 219b sw35 9080.
The process went very smoothly as I did not have to change the reflector and centering ring (required in the Original RRT-01), and I was not asked to separate and lubricate the control ring.
imo the 219b beam in the New RRT-01 is very good with the stock reflector.
I like that the New version uses screws to hold the LED star down. I like the very firm off detente in the New RRT-01. I also like that it has strobe, and that the pocket clip does not ride on the head when unscrewing to change batteries.
imo the New RRT-01 is a nice light, well built, w nice smooth threads. It is a simple mod to replace the stock XP-L w an N219, using the stock MCPCB.
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2. I disassembled an Original RRT-01 to lubricate the control ring, because it was too loose and turned on in a clients pocket. I used Nyogel 767a which is very thick and sticky.
The light had been previously modded by Vinh to sw45k. He did not modify the original factory grease, of which there was almost none, and he did not change the reflector.
I installed a kaidomain reflector w a customized centering ring. The beam is now excellent imo.
The dial is now very resistant to unintentional movement, but very smooth and can still be turned with one finger. On a scale of 1-10, the dial resistance is now a 10. When I first got it, the dial resistance was a 1.
