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Yesterday I ordered a Malkoff 61 drop in and a fancy Triad McClicky tail-cap from Oveready for my P6. Today my FAR LESS expensive SolarForce parts finally made it here from Hong Kong. So today I'm gonna share some pics of the finished light as well as my first attempt at a couple of beam shots.
The host is my old "bang around the house" first generation incandescent G2 Nitrolon:
A couple of weeks ago I ordered some stuff from Solarforce-sales.com. This stuff was DIRT CHEAP. Here is a screen shot of my cart:
And here are the parts and packaging:
Here it is all together along with a NOT SO cheap stainless pocket clip from Oveready:
The clip wasn't planned for this project but I ended up with an "extra" one so I used it here. Worked pretty good with the addition of one O-Ring.
Fit & finish of the SolarForce parts wasn't bad with the exception of two dings in the anodizing on the head:
For the beam-shots/spot comparisons I pitted the SolarForce claimed 320 lumen drop in against my new Surefire 6PX Pro with it's 200 Lumen High setting. Here they are together:
Here is the 6PX Pro on high aimed at my bedroom wall from about 10 feet:
And here is the G2/SolarForce 320 aimed at the same wall & same 10 ft distance:
Here is the 6PX lighting up my backyard. Distance is about 50 feet:
Here is the G2/SolarForce 320 at the same 50 ft distance:
What do you all think? The brightness difference looked MUCH more impressive in person than in the pictures. Not sure why.
The host is my old "bang around the house" first generation incandescent G2 Nitrolon:
A couple of weeks ago I ordered some stuff from Solarforce-sales.com. This stuff was DIRT CHEAP. Here is a screen shot of my cart:
And here are the parts and packaging:
Here it is all together along with a NOT SO cheap stainless pocket clip from Oveready:
The clip wasn't planned for this project but I ended up with an "extra" one so I used it here. Worked pretty good with the addition of one O-Ring.
Fit & finish of the SolarForce parts wasn't bad with the exception of two dings in the anodizing on the head:
For the beam-shots/spot comparisons I pitted the SolarForce claimed 320 lumen drop in against my new Surefire 6PX Pro with it's 200 Lumen High setting. Here they are together:
Here is the 6PX Pro on high aimed at my bedroom wall from about 10 feet:
And here is the G2/SolarForce 320 aimed at the same wall & same 10 ft distance:
Here is the 6PX lighting up my backyard. Distance is about 50 feet:
Here is the G2/SolarForce 320 at the same 50 ft distance:
What do you all think? The brightness difference looked MUCH more impressive in person than in the pictures. Not sure why.
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