BUZ
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Well last week I received from Mike@PTS a wolf eyes 6MX Explorer fitted with a D36 HO cree (170 lumen) lamp and all I can say is wow is this sucker impressive!!! This lamp puts out a amazing amount of flood and throw, much more than my fenix P3D. I have had several 6MX's in the past (incan) and really liked them, excellent build quality with glass lenses and a very durable finish. This setup project's a nearly flawless beam with almost zero artifacts, every other setup that I have had in the past (with a cree) has had lots of rings and to be honest they drove me nuts! So far I have only run this setup on primaries however I will be doing some runtime test's with battery station 900 mAh RCR123's, AW RCR 123's and a AW 18650 (all protected). It appears that a 17670 or 18650 is not regulated with this lamp which is too bad however I see that WE's has a cree that is 3.7-6 volts so a 18650 should work nicely for that! Another thing I really like about the WE's lamp is that it's built like a tank, extremely heavy duty and I bet it's a great heat dissipater (I have never seen a lamp even close thickness wise)! Last night I was messin around in the back yard with the 6MX cree and a 200 lumen WE's 9DX raider which is quite bright! The 6MX cree's output easily matched that of the 9DX, This sucker is a real eye popper!!!
I really like this setup due to the fact that it's compact, has a d36 reflector, has loads of very useful spill, great throw, can be run on a variety of cell configurations li-ion or primaries (3.7-13volts), has a glass lens, durable, and fairly water proof (passed the dunk test with flying colors)! In the past after purchasing the latest, greatest, brightest LED I always found myself going back to an incan for every day carry however after playing with this setup for the last week I can easily say this is my new carry light. If you have a few extra bucks I highly recommend giving the cree 6MX a try (worth every cent)!
I plan on getting some beamshot's up shortly! If anyone has any beamshot's of the WE's D26 or D36 please post em' up!
For info on this setup contact mike @
http://www.pts-flashlights.com/
Wolf eye's 6MX next to a surefire G2
Aprox. 10" from wall
Aprox. 4ft from wall
Upstairs beamshot........door is aprox. 25ft away :naughty: :naughty: :naughty:
Aprox. 1 meter from wall, hotspot aprox. 10"
Under exposed 6MX cree left WE's 200 lumen 9DX raider right
6MX D36 cree left 200 lumen 9DX raider right on fresh primaries aprox. 2ft from wall
11:00pm @ night pitch black outside.......the flood on this is amazing
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Just completed runtime tests with AW & Battery-Station RCR123 cells.
The 750mAh AW cells provided 68 minutes of runtime with the (170 lumen D36 cree lamp), I saw no drop in overall output during the test however once the cells reached 68 minutes the lamp died without warning! After waiting a few seconds I tried to see if I could get any more light from the depleted cells and got aprox. 10 seconds worth (after that the lamp would not light up any more).
Pretty much the same performance from the Battery-station 900mAh cells however I was quite surprised that the runtime of Battery-Station 900mAh cells was only 66 minutes! The Aw's cells have 150mAh less capacity and provide 2 more minutes of runtime! I think I'm gonna stick with the AW cells for use in 6MX, not only do they give a couple extra minutes runtime the quality of the AW cells seems to be a little better (IMO)!
A quick note, after 30min's of runtime I noticed the body and the bezel of the 6MX got quite warm to the touch (guess it should be expected as it's putting out 170 lumens)! However both sets of RCR123's actually stayed quite cool, thats a good thing.
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I really like this setup due to the fact that it's compact, has a d36 reflector, has loads of very useful spill, great throw, can be run on a variety of cell configurations li-ion or primaries (3.7-13volts), has a glass lens, durable, and fairly water proof (passed the dunk test with flying colors)! In the past after purchasing the latest, greatest, brightest LED I always found myself going back to an incan for every day carry however after playing with this setup for the last week I can easily say this is my new carry light. If you have a few extra bucks I highly recommend giving the cree 6MX a try (worth every cent)!
I plan on getting some beamshot's up shortly! If anyone has any beamshot's of the WE's D26 or D36 please post em' up!
For info on this setup contact mike @
http://www.pts-flashlights.com/
Wolf eye's 6MX next to a surefire G2
Aprox. 10" from wall
Aprox. 4ft from wall
Upstairs beamshot........door is aprox. 25ft away :naughty: :naughty: :naughty:
Aprox. 1 meter from wall, hotspot aprox. 10"
Under exposed 6MX cree left WE's 200 lumen 9DX raider right
6MX D36 cree left 200 lumen 9DX raider right on fresh primaries aprox. 2ft from wall
11:00pm @ night pitch black outside.......the flood on this is amazing
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Just completed runtime tests with AW & Battery-Station RCR123 cells.
The 750mAh AW cells provided 68 minutes of runtime with the (170 lumen D36 cree lamp), I saw no drop in overall output during the test however once the cells reached 68 minutes the lamp died without warning! After waiting a few seconds I tried to see if I could get any more light from the depleted cells and got aprox. 10 seconds worth (after that the lamp would not light up any more).
Pretty much the same performance from the Battery-station 900mAh cells however I was quite surprised that the runtime of Battery-Station 900mAh cells was only 66 minutes! The Aw's cells have 150mAh less capacity and provide 2 more minutes of runtime! I think I'm gonna stick with the AW cells for use in 6MX, not only do they give a couple extra minutes runtime the quality of the AW cells seems to be a little better (IMO)!
A quick note, after 30min's of runtime I noticed the body and the bezel of the 6MX got quite warm to the touch (guess it should be expected as it's putting out 170 lumens)! However both sets of RCR123's actually stayed quite cool, thats a good thing.
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I get about 27mm for 1.0625" .
