EagleTac coming with SST-90

I wanted to share an email I received this week:


Hi, George

Thanks for your support. We will have a new model of M2 with SST-90 led coming up in a few weeks.

For your suggestion of the holster, i will forward it to our R&D department. Thanks!

Cheers,

Nicole

this is awesome news...

Wow!!

Great news !!

:twothumbs

I do not believe it. The current M2 design does not have power or heat sink for a SST-90, but only for a SST-50.

HKJ said:

I do not believe it. The current M2 design does not have power or heat sink for a SST-90, but only for a SST-50.

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My thinking as well.. hopefully they will redesign the head for more mass and heatsinking potential

I think they mean an SST 50, SST 90 with 2x 18650 will not make good work.

It will be interesting to see...
I want to buy the new RRT-3 but all discussion about its brightness on this forum (seems more a 3,5 amp than a 5) plus some shipping problems are making me loosing time..

An EagleTac with SST-50 or SST-90 would be great, if it will fall in the sub-200 dollars price range there will be nothing to decide!!

As far as I understood reading the forum the EagleTac M2C4 is supposed to be well built and quite rugged, but I never saw one from close, what is your general opinion about this brand?

maxilux said:

I think they mean an SST 50, SST 90 with 2x 18650 will not make good work.

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maby 4x16340 would work better?
I cant wait to see it:twothumbs

maxilux said:

, SST 90 with 2x 18650 will not make good work.

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why not??

with a good driver, and 8A LED current you need around 3,5-4A through the 18650 and this is ok for a good cell, the runtime is only 30-40 minutes, but you have more light than you need during this time

and because the heat, I think you can run such a small light only some minutes continously with full power, so this "full" mode is only a turbo mode for short times....and the "normal" mode can get 2-3A to the LED and you get a brightness similar to a 5-700 lumen MC-E or P7 flashlight and this is enough for the most time....

I will take one:twothumbs

Jens

jorn said:

maby 4x16340 would work better?

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NO!! less capacity!

Believe it or not,that's exactly the email Nicole sent.

I heard about this light a couple of weeks ago. When I asked if it will outperform the SR90, I was told it will. I have no idea how they will improve the heat sink to handle that unless they completely redesign the head. It sounds feasible, though.

HKJ said:

I do not believe it. The current M2 design does not have power or heat sink for a SST-90, but only for a SST-50.

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They could always be under driving it (to say.. 1200lm, or whatever they can get.)

AusKipper said:

They could always be under driving it (to say.. 1200lm, or whatever they can get.)

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Yeah, thats what I am thinking. I'm not even convinced that the P7 and MCE versions are driven too their maximum, so driving an SST-90 to produce 1000+ Lumens OTF shouldn't be too hard for this form factor... if only for a little while.

Maybe it will have a forced thermal stepdown

THANK YOU JESUS! (I all most bought a Flydragon)

I wonder if Eagle Tac will beat the Maelstrom S18 to market ?

Man, this sounds really unlikely. I'd much prefer a well driven SST-50 than a 1000 lumen SST-90.

houtex said:

I wanted to share an email I received this week:


Hi, George

Thanks for your support. We will have a new model of M2 with SST-90 led coming up in a few weeks.

For your suggestion of the holster, i will forward it to our R&D department. Thanks!

Cheers,

Nicole

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I just hope Nicole oked the release of this info.

Painful Chafe said:

I heard about this light a couple of weeks ago. When I asked if it will outperform the SR90, I was told it will. I have no idea how they will improve the heat sink to handle that unless they completely redesign the head. It sounds feasible, though.

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The website http://www.eagletac.com/ is actually unreachable.

May be they are updating some contents..