Just what the title says. Any point in buying an XP-G2 these days? The 519A has been the golden child for a while now, and it’s obviously a great LED. But I do wonder if there’s any arguments for still buying some of the older stuff.
The XP-G2 got a major overhaul in the last two years, changed from lateral to flip chip design. So these new XP-G2 are still in production, but have nothing to do with the old ones we knew from several years ago.
See PCN here.
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Ew.
So the G2s are just like the hateful little G3s.
I was gonna suggest that a hot G2 could be dedomed and driven hard when you don’t care about longevity.
No more Fasttech, so I wouldn’t even know where to get modding crap anymore, as I don’t do AX anymore, and ain’t sure about places like KD, etc. So if I ain’t already got it, I don’t use it.
No, no as bad as these.
They are much better than XP-G3, Cree Rainbow™ is not really pronounced with these XP-G2 2nd gen.
I tested the XM-L2 2nd gen (same technology platform), and these aren’t bad. The XP-G2 are more or less the same in terms of beam and design.
I haveXP-G2 warm white in Zanflare F2 and I am very satisfied with its throwing beam capabilities and colour tint of light.
I just recently sent some XP-G4 HI to Koef for testing which have a lot of promise, and if they’re good then hopefully we’ll start seeing them in some lights maybe. Using Cree’s new flip chip design so should be able to take a lot of overcurrent, might displace SST20 a bit.
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Yeah I will test these.
I am currently in testing process for FFL351A which is also some sort of domeless LED similar to XP-G4 HI (with Phosphor all over the surface). The beam of these is perfect, no color deviations or Cree rainbow visible.
Maybe we have luck with the XP-G4 HI as well.
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