Hi guys! FINALLY got my AW ICR123 and 16340 IMR for my PC10, and I noticed a substantial increase in general brightness with me eyeballs. To the naked eye, the ICR powers the light at about ~12% visually brighter than with the Surefire cells i picked up over the weekend. The IMR is even around 5-8% visually brighter than the ICR. (Both the ICR and IMR came charged at 3.92V and 3.93V, respectively, and the Surefire came up to 3.23V. I can't wait to go out tonight to see just how much brighter the AW's are 😀. Using my lux meter at just over a meter gives me OTF values of :
IMR: 4,380+~ lux
ICR: 3,870~ lux
Surefires: 2,840~ lux
I still have yet to do subjective runtime tests, but if they'll take anything as long as it took my Klarus on the moonlight mode, i'm very reluctant to do so lol. I'm the kind of person who will set up a camera on time lapse 5 second intervals and just let it run its course. Besides, selfbuilt has already posted tested ansi-standard specs 😀 For anybody who has a Xeno E03 for comparison, the PC10 has a slightly deeper and smooth reflector, the E03 is OP and shallower, but there are very minor artifacts in the PC10's hotspot, whereas the E03 is a nicely transitioning "wall" of light. If I eyeball average the spill and hotspot of the Xeno Vs. the Jetbeam, the Xeno has superiority in closer quarters where more flood is needed. In an open area and outdoors, the Jetbeam has MUCH more utility, and the brightness difference becomes transparently clear: In short, the Jetbeam dwarfs the Xeno in overall OTF light. (This may be due in part to the Jetbeam having a cooler white bin than the Xeno's WONDERFUL neutral tint. I wonder If I could stick a neutral bin into the jetbeam? 😀) This observation was made when the 14500 in the Xeno was running 3.85V and the Surefire in the PC10 was 3.25V. Because of the difference in the beam pattern, the lux of the Xeno at max brightness was only around 1500 lux PEAK. Maybe i'm doing something wrong? I will try to take some pictures later tonight, but my camera doesn't do too well at lower light levels at longer distances. One more thing, from eyeballing the beams on a tree at ~60 yards, (180 feet) the PC10 was sufficient in picking out individual branches and leaves with the naked eye. With the Xeno, while being an amazing light at closer quarters (20-75(MAX) feet), the beam dissipated too much to pick out many details, I could see that there was a tree and blurry green moving around. Both are great lights, it's just that the PC10 is more of a wow factor when outdoors, and puts out alot more light OTF.
