Malkoff M61W

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PoliceScannerMan said:
The heat doesnt transfer to the plastic like the Aluminum bodies do. I had a 7 hour run with my 6P w/ M61WL, I'm tellin ya, it didnt even get warm. The light was sitting on a table, with no fan or anything, it was just barely over room temp.
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This. To clarify further, the G2 is not the part at risk when you combine a full power LED module of any make to it, it's the module itself. The electronics need to be cooled, and aluminum lights/bezels act as a big heatsink.
 
I've heard the spot to flood transition is great on the M61, and a wonderfully designed reflector. Seems there was a a parcel on the market around the 14th, any word since?
 
PoliceScannerMan said:
9 hours and 10 minutes, it went kaput!!

So after it drops from regulation, you have an just over an hour of low mode lighting, enough to get ya home!!!

This was on a AW Black 2600mah 18650.

8 hours of regulation, followed by 70 minutes of low level light, maybe 10 lumens.

The M61WL is one hell of a dropin IMO!!! :rock:
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Fantastic!
I just got my M61WL last night ..:devil:
 
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I just bought my first M61 on CPFMP from a fellow member and slipped in my C2-LED. I have a E2DL and G2 w/ KX4 as well as other surefires and I thought the E2DL was wicked bright (it is & throw is great too) but this thing is dangerous bright:devil:. i had a chance to see how bright Sat nite. A cpl A$$hats were parked in an unmarked towtruck across from my house at 2am, totally blacked out but running their Diesel. My town has been hit with a huge rash of Thefts and breakins of homes and cars, so I watched and waited. moron #2 gets out and starts Eyeballin my neighbors New Mercedes and i give him 10 secs as I grab my cell and C2. i decided to light him up and when i did he froze, i think he thought it was a searchlight. It was maybe 75-100 feet from my upstairs window to their front driveway. the hotspot lit the truck and the car like a spotlight, it was muggy and the beam was visible. Bonehead jumped in the truck and they tore off with no lights. i reported the incident to the PD and gave them a good description of the truck because of the M61.

Now to save for the Hellfighter, it seems like the next logical step in Flashlight progression :devil:

Lumens, alot is good, more is always better
 
My M61LL and M61WL arrived last week but I have been away on cycling holiday, and couldn't try them before today.
I compared M61WL to several of my other flashlights. It's warmer than the warmest of all cool white LEDs but seems white compared to Fenix TK20 and Quark neutral CR123. I guess this is close to the perfect neutral light! It provides a bit feeling of bright incan light(though still whiter than MagCharger) but with an artifact free beam. The output is very close to Fenix TK20 at turbomode. This is a winner!

Regards, Patric
 
I received my M61WL recently and I love the output and beam. Perfect for close to mid range illumination. It has a hotspot, but transitions into very bright spill. Like others have said it is not warm, but very white neutral. I like it a lot!
 
When I this night tried the new M61 dropins more carefully I like them more and more: while M61LL is the good economical choice for a long runtime combined with adequate brightness for allround use, M61WL proves itself as the great neutral light: the warmer tint is just so relaxed and more natural for the eyes and still not that yellowish!
I feel that M61WL is going to be one of my absolute favorite lights (at the moment placed in a Gun Metal Gray 6P)! Brighter than M61LL but still with 5 hours regulated runtime is good. :thumbsup:

Regards, Patric
 
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Well, I'm impressed :twothumbs. Just received a new M61W today, my first Malkoff, popped it in my very first C2, very nice tint, great hotspot with some nice flood, nice and bright too, just the way I like them. :naughty:
 
I just received my M61W last week and it really surprised me.
The brightness and the tint almost are as good as the Nailbender SST-50 neurtal.
I think M61W is a good option if you need excellent tint and more runtime :thumbsup:
 
I now have a M61W and a M61WL. The M61W is noticeably brighter than the M61WL. But with the fantastic runtime of the M61WL (8 hours followed by 1 hour of 10 lumens on a 18650 2600), I give it the nod over the M61W. However when you know you wont need all that runtime, why not go with the full blast? 😀

The tint is perfect on these M61W(L)'s. Just creamy vanilla white. :twothumbs

Gene Malkoff teaming up with Don McLeish, producing beautiful beams. These M61's, Gen 2 WildCats, and now the Hound Dog, they are hard to beat!!! 😎
 
Got mine today ...
This thing is so creamy and bright, I gotta wear ..


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Many thanks to Gene and Cathy!
Your customer service is superb.
 
Got my M61W yesterday (my first Malkoff) , and put it in the Surefire LED 6P, and I am so happy I bought it (and finally managed to catch one in stock).

Fantastic neutral tint, some extra light and the smooth beam... perfect!:twothumbs

Talk about quick delivery and great packing, thanks Gene and Cathy!

Now if I can catch the Maglight dropin while still in stock, for my old 3D...
 
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That's where the HoundDog comes in - with dual modes it solves the problem of M61 vs M61L. In HD, you get both Turbo and a LL mode, ideal in my view.
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Just then lacking a warm(neutral) white version of it I guess. But what I really want is a Wildcat warm... :popcorn:
 
Halo,

I just got myself the M61W and would like to share my thoughts about.

This is the latest unit that is suppose to be warmer then the earlier M61W units.

The first thing the output is really impressive, way more light than from M60 series. The hot spot is larger so it is worse thrower than M60 are but it makes it up three times in amount of light and actually I like this size of hotspot.

As to the colour compared it with M60 and M61W is definitaly warm.

Then compared it to my M60W and M30W I'm using and M61W is slightly cooler, just a little bit.

But there is one thing I don't like at all that the output is much toward green colour and it is clearly visible comparing to M60W and M30W. Not noticable that much when using only M61W but quite obvious when comparing. I don't quite like what this green-ish tint makes with some colours.

Now this might be just this unit, as I know all the leds differ, even Malkoffs I have had and have now are always diffrent (my M30W is tiny bit cooler than M60W for example, but this is really tiny). I once had M60 that had this same greenish output and I did not like it also. So I suppose there might be better examples of M61W considering the tint colour and still it is not that obvious when using it. It just shows in comparision that the M30W and M60W show much better the colours of outdoor world.

I also now I can clearly see the advantages of optics, it is really better than typical reflector in some areas or performance.

In general my feeling is M60W and M30W were better products and with them I almost forget it is LED not a good incan. With M61W although way better performer in some areas not that great in others.

I think I would be happy with the XPG module that would have just the same colour tint as M60W and M30W and used the same optics, that would be ideal light for me and this would give a hard reason for upgrading from M60 without missing anything.

Hope it's not long and boring and sorry for such a low WOW factor 🙂
 
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