old4570
Flashlight Enthusiast
Well , Ive had a play with the XP-E's and :tired:
Not nearly as great as one would have hoped for , they just cant compete with XR-E in a head to head contest .
Actual light box results are equal , running both XR-E and XP-E on the same 1A buck boost driver gives the same light output in my lightbox , just nothing to separate them .
Moving away from 1A , I tried a SSC P7 driver/controller that allows the LED to suck what ever level of current it wants [ Direct Drive ] .
Anyhow , 1 of the XP-E R2 drew just on 1A [ measured at the tail ] , the other actually hit almost 1.5A measured at the tail , for a moment I got all excited but the results did not pan out in the lightbox , and for all that power draw it still could not put out more than the other two XP-E R2's
Very disappointing .
What I like about the XR-E's is , when you push them , they produce more light , and from my own humble collection of R2's , the XR-E can be pushed some 30% to 50% harder .
I dont know , I tried the higher current drawing one with a IMR and it sucked up to 1.8A [ measured at the tail ] but the output remained about the same .
I might play with this one a little more me thinks ...
With this driver , thats a little over 1.6A to the LED .:ironic:
Well , thats about it for now ,
Not nearly as great as one would have hoped for , they just cant compete with XR-E in a head to head contest .
Actual light box results are equal , running both XR-E and XP-E on the same 1A buck boost driver gives the same light output in my lightbox , just nothing to separate them .
Moving away from 1A , I tried a SSC P7 driver/controller that allows the LED to suck what ever level of current it wants [ Direct Drive ] .
Anyhow , 1 of the XP-E R2 drew just on 1A [ measured at the tail ] , the other actually hit almost 1.5A measured at the tail , for a moment I got all excited but the results did not pan out in the lightbox , and for all that power draw it still could not put out more than the other two XP-E R2's
Very disappointing .
What I like about the XR-E's is , when you push them , they produce more light , and from my own humble collection of R2's , the XR-E can be pushed some 30% to 50% harder .
I dont know , I tried the higher current drawing one with a IMR and it sucked up to 1.8A [ measured at the tail ] but the output remained about the same .
I might play with this one a little more me thinks ...
With this driver , thats a little over 1.6A to the LED .:ironic:
Well , thats about it for now ,
