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My Manafont XM-L P60 drop-in finally ****** arrived yesterday.
At the tailcap I have measured that it pulls 3.2amps from a 18560 cell, insane. One thing I will say is this drop-in will determine the men from the boys with your 18650 cells, many cheap 18650 cells will be unable to have this kind of load thrown upon them.
More to follow tomorrow.. but don't be expecting any runtime graphs from me on this one in high mode. As I can guarantee the driver will destroy the LED if ran in high for longer than 10 minutes, heat is a slight issue.
Very Nice. which one do you prefer?
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My Manafont XM-L P60 drop-in finally ****** arrived yesterday.
At the tailcap I have measured that it pulls 3.2amps from a 18560 cell, insane. One thing I will say is this drop-in will determine the men from the boys with your 18650 cells, many cheap 18650 cells will be unable to have this kind of load thrown upon them.
More to follow tomorrow.. but don't be expecting any runtime graphs from me on this one in high mode. As I can guarantee the driver will destroy the LED if ran in high for longer than 10 minutes, heat is a slight issue.
Still waiting for mine to turn up, had the body with no drop-in for ages now.
Is there any better online stores to buy drop-ins from? CBA waiting this long again.
It depends on the torch... broadly speaking yes, it's probably possible, within different levels of difficulty. it could be a case of swapping a Dropin (easy) up to swapping both LED and Driver (very involved).I bought a Cree Q5 because of this thread and it's a great torch.
Does anyone know if it's possible to convert it to UV?
For the budget lights/drop-ins afraid we are at the mercy of the Chinese/Hong Kong Post. Manafont have been the slowest I have come across though, it took over 5 weeks for my XM-L P60 drop-in to arrive.
Budget lights are fun don't get me wrong, they provide a massive amount of light output for the money.
But...
Once the excitement of the high mode is over, in reality you won't be using high mode much for general things as it will be too bright for a start, also there are plenty of times where you need your cells to last more than an hour. Budget lights can be crippled by inefficient drivers but more to the point that cheap and nasty way of achieving lower brightness modes.... PWM.
Pulse Width Modulation. I don't mind it at higher frequencies but the problem is many budget lights make use of PWM with such a low frequency which is detectable by the eye. The light quality is just plain nasty to me. I know that it differs from person to person, but I CANNOT STAND IT.
Might as well call anything but high mode the 'raver strober' mode.
I remember playing with variable resistors when I was young'en, made some baseball cap into a make shift headlamp not particular bright but was interesting at the time. Was always very frustrated by the fact that the variable resistor is like a black hole for energy.
I don't mind the use of PWM at higher frequencies, as it becomes undetectable to the eye. Just that many budget lights utilise such a low frequency of PWM to generate the other modes.
You will certainly notice it on the Low Mode of the Manafront XM-L drop-in.
I would say the Manafont has the lowest frequency of PWM out of all my lights. The KD XM-L drop-in has a far higher rate of frequency.. still noticeable but not as bad as the Manafont.
Black light effect (visible UV?) would be good, wimilar to to sort of things they used to see scorpions.I don't think you're going to be converting that to proper UV any time soon without changing the bulbunless you mean simulated "Black light" effect?
I have one of those btw!
Black light effect (visible UV?) would be good, wimilar to to sort of things they used to see scorpions.
I love the beam it projects when you tighten the focus on it, blinding!
Sounds good to me, didn't want too much messing around!buying a new UV torch is a much better option.![]()
Or you could have bought one rechargeablej/k.
Does anyone know of any reviews on the Fenix TK15? I cant seem to search on CPF. Wondering how much brighter it is than my TK12 and if it throws any better.