[ QUOTE ]
4sevens said:
[ QUOTE ]
MR Bulk said:
[ QUOTE ]
McGizmo said:
Charlie,
Yes, you saw a 3 stage that was pre the McE2S switches. Trying to keep the three stage in compliance with the E xeries tail cap architecture was just too much; at least for me. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
[/ QUOTE ]
Well, I was impressed nonetheless, especially since you already thought of it so long ago and discarded it as impractical. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif
[/ QUOTE ]
Charlie,
These points you keep bringing up is irrelevant because
Don's McLuxIII PD a complete different light than his E series.
(which I can only assume you have not had a chance to play with)
The activation switch for the PD is in the head versus the
Aleph/E series which has the switch in the tail.
In the E series resistance is applied between the battery and the
circuit. It is hard to find a good resistor for each drive level
and does not give a flat output like in the high setting.
Plus, there are big efficiently losses when not on high.
Whereas the PD has the resistance applied in the buck/boost chip.
The biggest advantage is that the different levels are truly FULLY
regulated and produce a FLAT output on all levels!
Of course why would you care anything about flat and regulated
outputs.
You lights are begging and screaming for mercy. Even
on the lowest levels because they're getting slammed way beyond
their designed specifications. Obviously you don't give a rat's
breakfast about regulated lights.
[/ QUOTE ]
Whoa there, David - okay, so you obviously don't like the LionHeart driver. And you also said in an earlier post in this same thread:
[ QUOTE ]
"...PWM junk found in the latest lionheart and lioncubs (which isn't even worth running below 30% duty cycle because it comes to like 40% efficiency and counting down - also emitters will die a horrible premature death)..."
[/ QUOTE ]
And yet - here you are modding several lights using these very same LionHeart drivers:
HERE and
HERE (in this one you even say,
"And all the perks that go with the Lionheart driver").
And also
HERE
Plus I seem to recall you putting a LionHeart driver in one of the small Arcs, either the AA or AAA...
So - you dislike the LH driver, yet you use them in at least several of your own light mods.
So which way is it?
Could it be that it is whatever sells? I say this because I notice you also sold these lights to others, these lights that are, "begging and screaming for mercy", the ones that are, "PWM junk found in the latest lionheart and lioncubs (which isn't even worth running below 30% duty cycle because it comes to like 40% efficiency and counting down - also
emitters will die a horrible premature death)".
Yet you sold them to unsuspecting fellow CPF'ers, for prices as high as $350? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thinking.gif