Thank you all for the many compliments!
Other than tint...it looks like the TK40 and M2 have a nearly identical brightness in your underexposed shot. Do you have any throwers you can compare the M2X's with?
Can you also get the TK40 out there in the tree shots?
The only other thrower I have is the Tiablo A9. I have a Mag 85 but I'm not sure how useful that will be.
As for the TK40, I'll see what I can do. The TK40 seemed to fit between the flood of the M2C4 and the spot of the others. Fumbling with all of those lights out there in the dark, with wind and a lightening storm nearby made for a slightly uncomfortable shoot. I had to rush inside hence the shot with the car headlights seen through the trees!
thanks for the review
Seems like in those 100ft beamshots the P7 has a larger hot spot but less spill, while the 3xcree versions have a smaller hot spot but greater spill. Can you confirm whether this is the case in real life?
Yes, I'd agree with that. The pics, even though I tried to underexpose them, are still slightly overexposed. In my last review people seemed to like that so I did it that way intentionally so the pics are fairly close to what my eyes saw. However, the M2C4 seems to flood out past 200 feet. This was similar to my Sniper P7 that started to flood out beyond 100 feet. The M2C4 is almost pure flood at those big distances. A couple of these on poles could do a night game at a high school football field!
Good review! Any idea if the head opens up easily for a future emitter swap? I really like the colour of the neutral XR-E's I've soldered into other lights I have, but at the same time the output of the P7 is very tempting. If the head opens perhaps one could switch for a neutral P7 or similar sometime in the future.
Thank you for the pics and review. I really appreciate the time you took for us .
How far were you able to break the light down? Is the bezel removable ? What about the reflectors?
As for water dunking and disassembly, these are loners for the review, not mine to subject to those kinds of tests so I just treated the light as an end user. The bezel screws right off but that's as far as I went. The head is heavy feels very stout. It's like holding a lead tennis ball. I have no doubt it's well built with a lot of heat sinking. From the looks of it the reflector assembly most likely comes right out when you open it up.
As for runtimes, I usually don't do those in my reviews. Too many variables with batteries and such. Even my two chargers charge differently. I did forget to check how hot it gets and I will do that. My current draw measurments divided by 80 percent of the known capacity of your cells should give you a good idea of runtime.
Wattnot:
Great review, especially the nice pic's!
A couple of questions, both of a subjective nature:
1. In your opinion, did Eagletac get the output levels right? Or would you have preferred a lower low, medium, and high modes?
2. In your opinion, would the UI work better if the control ring rotated 110-120 degrees from Off to Strobe, instead of 90 degrees?
As for my opinion on the levels, they're great. The only two that might be too close are high and turbo. It's almost difficult to tell. As for more spacing between the switching, yes, that would have helped but with a tradeoff of having to reposition your hand. Think of a touchpad on a laptop when you're trying to get from one end of the screen to another.
A detent for each level is probably not necessary but a detent for strobe should be addressed. I bet that in 6 months from now, if someone starts a poll on the biggest complaint for this light, it will be related to how close turbo and strobe are and/or about unintentional strobing. It's minor for all they've accomplished here and I'm sure people will get used to it, but you'll see what I mean when you get yours.
