fyrstormer
Banned
Well...one of them does, anyway. 
It can be seen here, reclining against its cousin, a McGizmo Sapphire 25.
Yes, that's a Cree XP-E you see in there. I bought a pair of them probably a year ago and promptly had no idea whatsoever for what to do with them. Well, I was playing around with my extensive collection of 5mm LEDs, and I had a bunch of snipped leads laying around, and it suddenly occurred to me I could use them to fit an XP-E (or an XP-G, if I had one) into my Arc AAA Ti. I had my doubts about whether it would light, but sure enough it does, and at the low power it's running at, the leads are all the heatsinking it needs.
The Sapphire is intended to be "pure flood", and man, if you want to talk about pure flood, the Arc AAA Ti XP-E is it. The beam is perfectly smooth, a little broader than the Sapphire, not as blue, and just as bright. I think I've got my new reading light. :thumbsup:
EDIT: On another note, this little experiment of mine suggests that there's no need to continue using 5mm or 3mm LEDs for these little keyhole-lights anymore, because the newer surface-mount LEDs work just as well and have much nicer tints. Builders take note.oo:
It can be seen here, reclining against its cousin, a McGizmo Sapphire 25.
Yes, that's a Cree XP-E you see in there.
I bought a pair of them probably a year ago and promptly had no idea whatsoever for what to do with them. Well, I was playing around with my extensive collection of 5mm LEDs, and I had a bunch of snipped leads laying around, and it suddenly occurred to me I could use them to fit an XP-E (or an XP-G, if I had one) into my Arc AAA Ti. I had my doubts about whether it would light, but sure enough it does, and at the low power it's running at, the leads are all the heatsinking it needs.The Sapphire is intended to be "pure flood", and man, if you want to talk about pure flood, the Arc AAA Ti XP-E is it. The beam is perfectly smooth, a little broader than the Sapphire, not as blue, and just as bright. I think I've got my new reading light. :thumbsup:
EDIT: On another note, this little experiment of mine suggests that there's no need to continue using 5mm or 3mm LEDs for these little keyhole-lights anymore, because the newer surface-mount LEDs work just as well and have much nicer tints. Builders take note.
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