Active thermal management Armytek Wizard Pro v2 and non Pro v2

[mdocod]

I'll test my Wife's Wizard Pro V2.... She's not home she doesn't have to know...

[edit in]: orange blinking temp warning kicked in at 15 minutes. The starting temp for the light was likely a bit cooler, as it was in our bedroom.

 

[YahFargo]

Just timed mine, it's worse than I thought. At 1.5 minutes the orange light started blinking, at 3min 20 sec it flashed red and kicked to a lower output. It stayed there for 2 minutes flashing yellow at reduced output, at which point I bumped back up to turbo manually. It ran for about 1 minute before flashing red and kicking down again. Same ambient temp as before, I have no thermometer to measure the light itself

 

[mdocod]

Sounds like we have a case of goldilock's wizards. Too hot, too cold.... but unfortunately, no "just right" to be found. Odd.

 

[FlashlightR]

Thanks guys for performing these temperature tests. I have just tested my wizard pro and the behaviour is nearly the same as with YahFargo. It seems like not any wizard is the same....

And indeed Mdocod, why boosting the lumens to the max and have to develop difficult temperature management control systems, it seems to be a marketing thing.....

 

[SoundWorx]

I think a wizard pro using the 26650 and mtg2 would be awesome. Probably not going to happen though.

 

[YahFargo]

Just timed mine, it's worse than I thought. At 1.5 minutes the orange light started blinking, at 3min 20 sec it flashed red and kicked to a lower output. It stayed there for 2 minutes flashing yellow at reduced output, at which point I bumped back up to turbo manually. It ran for about 1 minute before flashing red and kicking down again. Same ambient temp as before, I have no thermometer to measure the light itself

Quoting myself here. I got an infrared thermometer recently and tested when my wizard blinks red and moves to a lower output. Ambient temp was 74F, at 2min 45sec it flashed red and stepped down. Head temp at step down was 129.5F. Anyone else have head Temp measurements at step down?