bigchelis
Flashlight Enthusiast
Hi all,
The P60 P7 (1 IMR 18650 topped off) I have is incredibly bright. Needless to say If someone told me it is putting 700 plus lumens out the front I would agree. Especially since it makes 2.8~2.9 amps at the tail, but then I got the Maglight P7 which appears at least twice as bright.
I just got the Nailbeder made direct drive P7 Maglight 2D running on 3 NiMH cells. The amp draw at the tail with my cells at 1.4v each was 2.3~2.4amps. I used another set of cells that were only 1.3v and the amp draw at the tail was 2.7~. Aside of the P7 Maglight appearing twice as bright as the P60 P7 it held the 2.7~2.9amps for 2:02minutes and each cell(Tenergy 5000mAh) measured 1.25v each at the end of the 2:02 hour run.:twothumbs:twothumbs:twothumbs:twothumbs
I plan on running the cells down to 1v and get a runtime graph with amp draw plus pictures later on. I do not see why I am getting such great results so I will do it again while at work so I can monitor the light and take readings every 30 minutes.
My experience with the P7 Mag vs P60 P7 seems to good to be true. Are any of you P7 Mag light folks running NiMH getting similar results?
Note: My P60 MC-E direct drive from Gene Malkoff as tested by MrGman made slightly over 400 out the front warm. The theory is that there is not enough heatsinking to accomodate the P7 in such a small desgin like the P60. The Malkoff was pulling 4.2~4.5amps at the tail so in theory it should have been at least 1000 lumens (which was what Gene thought it would be too.)
The P60 P7 (1 IMR 18650 topped off) I have is incredibly bright. Needless to say If someone told me it is putting 700 plus lumens out the front I would agree. Especially since it makes 2.8~2.9 amps at the tail, but then I got the Maglight P7 which appears at least twice as bright.
I just got the Nailbeder made direct drive P7 Maglight 2D running on 3 NiMH cells. The amp draw at the tail with my cells at 1.4v each was 2.3~2.4amps. I used another set of cells that were only 1.3v and the amp draw at the tail was 2.7~. Aside of the P7 Maglight appearing twice as bright as the P60 P7 it held the 2.7~2.9amps for 2:02minutes and each cell(Tenergy 5000mAh) measured 1.25v each at the end of the 2:02 hour run.:twothumbs:twothumbs:twothumbs:twothumbs
I plan on running the cells down to 1v and get a runtime graph with amp draw plus pictures later on. I do not see why I am getting such great results so I will do it again while at work so I can monitor the light and take readings every 30 minutes.
My experience with the P7 Mag vs P60 P7 seems to good to be true. Are any of you P7 Mag light folks running NiMH getting similar results?
Note: My P60 MC-E direct drive from Gene Malkoff as tested by MrGman made slightly over 400 out the front warm. The theory is that there is not enough heatsinking to accomodate the P7 in such a small desgin like the P60. The Malkoff was pulling 4.2~4.5amps at the tail so in theory it should have been at least 1000 lumens (which was what Gene thought it would be too.)