Great summary Kitro, as always a pleasure to read, heck i was there with you using it
Been pondering these since first release, the 219c 4k (i presume)is a nice flavour. It almost or getting close to my fondness of the 219b(little brighter of course). The option of being able to swap out the TIR for flood or throw is also a winner.
The fact that ven has so many nice P60 hosts must be mentioned.
This emitter makes so much more red than any other horse in my stall. Our brown dog is so pretty under its light! An older triple Nichia 5000K single mode 3.8Amps (bought from custom lites) P60 dropin usually looks so good with browns when used by itself. When compared with this DIP it looks a kind of pale. Same thing with the BLF-348 single mode AAA flashlight released a couple years ago.
Oveready sent this unit with 4 mode starting with lowest (guessing it is about 5 to 10 lumens, really don't know but can tell you that PFlexPRO, Emisar, and Zebralight go significantly lower). Tonight I configured for starting on highest, 4 speed. Although the reset is not real fast, when it does, you will always go to first mode, even if you were already on the first mode. So an extra click is required in that situation, to get to the next mode or beyond. There is no 'last mode memory'.
A scrolling user interface like this seems to work more efficiently for me without last mode memory. More time and more configuration testing is needed to get a feel for this.
Upon initial installation, a person like me wants to have a reasonably tight fit between dropin and host for better heat transfer, so the string method from PFlexPRO was used to include a very thin, single circumference strip of copper foil. This made for a mild panic event when going about to change the DIP switches. The module must be removed to actuate the switch and it did not want to come out! After some thought and a couple failed attempts, full size forceps did the trick. Definitely did not want to ding up the module or the Oveready host. Hoping no one else jams that up.
More confirmation tonight that the throw is fairly close visually with a smooth reflector P60 dropin sporting an XPL HI 5000K, with a larger hotspot and brighter spill. Someone accurately measuring with an instrument would no doubt have numbers implying a bigger difference but visually it's not that much.
Used a (2 1/4 inch reflector) Eagtac XPL Hi thrower sold as 'NW' or 'neutral' tonight as well. It looks kind of lousy yellow compared to this baby...