trapperjay
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What is there to be gained and lost by choosing AW RC123's vs C123 primaries?
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Marduke
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Yoda4561
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With current li-ion tech rcr123's can only pull about half the runtime of a cr123 primary. The nice thing though is one pair of RCR's are the equivalent of at least 100 cr123 primaries if you don't abuse them.
DimeRazorback
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You also get a slight increase in output aswell.
Marduke
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Should make no difference, as both setups are well above the Vf, and the M60 is buck only.
DimeRazorback
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Fair enough!
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Marduke
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And he said cells plural...What if he has a M30?
EDIT: Never mind, the M30 is buck-boost.
trapperjay
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"And he said cells plural... "
I should have specified it's a MD2
I should have specified it's a MD2
Marduke
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That is the host, not the module.
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m60, m60wl
Yoda4561
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Consider a 1x18650 or 17670 with the M60 modules. The tradeoff is somehwat shorter max output regulation, but you get greatly increased useful battery life and no sudden cutoff or need to watch the battery voltages (light will dim before the protection circuit kicks in)
I would get AW IMR16340s over RCR123s for M60.
With M60 I believe you'll get more "realized" capacity than with RCR123s.
In the M60L the AW RCR123 LION cells would have an advantage.
That's if you want to use 2 cells.
I do as Yoda says (it worked for Luke!) and use a single 18650 cell.
With an AW 18650-2600 - I get about 3 hours of fairly flat run , tapering off for another hour , probably another safe hour after that.
It's not as bright as 2 cells , but I don't care. I have brighter lights
With M60 I believe you'll get more "realized" capacity than with RCR123s.
In the M60L the AW RCR123 LION cells would have an advantage.
That's if you want to use 2 cells.
I do as Yoda says (it worked for Luke!) and use a single 18650 cell.
With an AW 18650-2600 - I get about 3 hours of fairly flat run , tapering off for another hour , probably another safe hour after that.
It's not as bright as 2 cells , but I don't care. I have brighter lights
donn_
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One of my favorite configs is an M30 running on 4x Elite1500 2/3A NiMH cells (in a Surefire 7Z). It's easily my brightest M30.
