I received a package today.
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Received an order from Hank today.
KR1K in green/bronze with NTG50 4200k.
I love the aux ramping. It’s smooth and mesmerizing.
The button is absolute perfection.
DA1K in blue/black with NTG50 4200k.
I love the tint of these NTG50 4200k emitters.
ETA: The green battery tube is a good color match. The lighting in the pics makes it look off, but in person it looks great.
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Convoy delivery day!
S21E in Mao White Anduril 1 with 519a 4000k and Camo Green Anduril 1 with LHP531 4000k.
A whole bunch of 519a emitters.
7 - 4000k
8 - 5000k
4 - 3500k
4 - 3000k
Plus a handful of different TIR optics in various flavors and sizes.
ETA: Swappped out the switch retaining ring and button for a Titanium Hank setup.
Unfortunately the Hank rings and buttons will only fit the s21e that has the older style white rubber button. It won’t fit the newer style, as it’s a much bigger diameter.
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Wow, the words “Anduril” and “Andrew” do seem to map to the same 3 Chinese characters! I would have chosen a better phonetic approximation like “安都瑞” for the former, but oh well.
Enjoy playing with the TIRs, they are great fun. My favorites are 15 and 30 beaded.
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Hehe.
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I got the LHP531 with 15° beaded and 519a with 15° flat, but plenty of other spares to mess around with.
One of these 2 will be modded with a custom driver, triple 519a and aux board under the optic.
I just need to decide which one yet. I’m torn.
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Whichever configuration you will use more frequently or under harsher conditions, I’d pick the camo host. From what I’ve read the MAO hides wear very poorly–unless that’s your aesthetic!
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Sounds like camo is the way to go then!
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I also received my Q8+ today. I was very surprised since I ordered only six days prior, on the 9th, and I was expecting a month at least. It threw me off cause it was in a white bubble mailer instead of the usual yellow.
So the Q8+ takes 3V emitters? I thought they were 6V XHP50.2.
I am absolutely going to have to swap mine since the tint on these 5000K XHPs is atrocious. Worse than I was expecting, but I was planning on swapping it the minute I ordered it anyway.
I think I want to stay with 5000K although 4000K would be much nicer for night use.
FL5009R 5000K 3V would be nice, but I’m not sure how much they can handle. Very good CRI to my eyes, but more expensive than LHP it seems. I have zero experience with these new LHP emitters so far, but I was going to order LHP531 from Simon in 3000-5000K. If it is 3V, then unfortunately can’t use SFT-70 3000K which is one of my current favorites. The SFT40 3000K isn’t as nice, more green.
I know high CRI would be objectively better, but I’ve read the LHP531 has better performance over the Q8+ stock LEDs in basically every way, except floodiness. I’m waiting until nighttime to test out this Q8+. I might bypass the springs before then, since I’ve read they can get hot and flatten out at high current. I’ll probably at least put some minus green until I swap it. It’s not that green, but cool white with the blue/yellow tinted tint shifr is really bad
Sorry for the long post
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The Q8+ indeed takes 3V emitters–I see that you’ve already seen my LHP531 mod thread. I highly recommend the 4000K, which subjectively feels much cooler than the nominal CCT, partly due to the extremely pink tint, and partly due to the FET driver pushing high instantaneous current even on lower modes, which causes the light to shift blue slightly. I think I would find 5000K unpleasantly cold.
This host would actually be great for the 5009R because the OP texture is very pronounced, much more so than an typical Convoy OP reflector. This helps smear out the dark center caused by the quad-die construction.
It even floods better due to the higher output! I would recommend bypassing springs before first turbo, as I’ve heard reports of springs collapsing even with stock low-current cells. The minus green filter is about to take the worst beating it has ever seen, given the point-blank power density in the green part of the spectrum!
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Talking about the stock cells I got with my Q8 Plus…
In the past I’ve read (an seen photos) that the stock cells that came with the Q8+ were flat tops with almost no raised part, meaning that the battery sleeves/wrappers sometimes even got damaged. It’s probably something that Sofirn now does for some time, but I was pleasantly surprised that the flat tops that came with my Q8+ have clearly raised possitive terminals:
Out of curiousity I removed the wrapper on one of the 21700, to see if I could find some markings and figure out the manufacturer, but unfortunately there wasn’t a single marking/code on the cell.
I did a quick internal resistance test (ACIR) on them and all 3 cells basicly measured between 18 and 19 mOhm, so nothing spectacular.
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My cells look like this too! The top looks like some sort of flat/button hybrid. The inside of the battery tube has some sharp edges, and they do scratch up the wrapper quite a bit.
There’s a test of some version of this cell here, but it’s unclear whether it’s the same cell under the wrapper as different batches may have different underlying cells. Also the top looks different. But looking at the discharge curves I calculated around 0.02Ohm of IR, which is consistent with what you tested.
I use these cells to drive a L21B with SFT42R and a 1.5x-current modded 17mm “ramping” driver; the light falls out of regulation immediately on a full cell.
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