I have two m’s, one with the Noctigon triple sporting XP-G2 R5 2B’s and pulling 3.73A on a Qlite with 4 chips stacked, 3 ounces of copper for a pill, for an approximate 1225 lumens. Was running it Direct Drive at 7.29A but with a start-up of 2100 lumens, that’s just too much!
The other is running an XP-G2 R5 2B de-domed with an 18mm McGizmo reflector on top of a SinkPAD and a solid inch of aluminum in the host, similar to the other light but aluminum instead of copper. It’s pulling some 2.71A on an Efest IMR18350 for an estimated 730 lumens.
Getting a lightbox from some friends in the next week or so, will be fun putting real OTF lumens on these.
Well, uh, yeah…the CNCQ S1 is too small for me to get into.
Last night I took a Raysoon F13 to 5.34A with an XM-L2 on a SinkPAD. It’s running something in the neighborhood of 1625 lumens on an Powerizer LiNiMnCo26650 cell.
Thinking of baking that one, as it would look really cool with a coppery color.
edeekeos, you do have the tools…you have a brain and the desire. Everything else follows. I wasn’t doing any of this 6 months ago. Now I’m stacking chips 3 high, soldering resistors the size of a pin head. Loving it!
Joining this forum has really opened up what I think of the possible. Old Lumens put forth a challenge a little while back, and I accepted. That got me started right there when I took a live .50BMG round and turned it into an 800 lumens XP-G2 flashlight.
Wow, thanks for the motivation! I am slowing catching on. Only been in the torch scene alone since July of this year, and just recently started modding. I’m ~40 flashlights deep already, please don’t tell my wife though… LOL
