I have no idea how this place works or how this will show up. Every post I saw only had one pic posted. And I posted them in the body and not the URL link not sure if thats right or not. I guess I'll find out!
Anyways i wanted an FWAA with warm, neutral, and cool and figured why bother with 6000K XP-P when I can just put W1s in it.
I thought it would easily outthrow my XP-P FWAAs but that's not the case. 4000K XP-P actually throws farther than W1. 8600kcd to 7600kcd. It actually throws the same as the 3000K XP-P. Too bad you can't drive these XP-Ps more. Still a fun mod.
Ok hope someone finds this mildly interesting. Thanks for checking out my first post.
Does this thing have an app? Logging on each time is going to be annoying. Hopefully r/flashlight gets back to its glory someday.
So does the XP-P out throw the W1 specifically due to the FWAA setup? Like the driver only pushes so much current or something like that? Usually I’d look this into up on Reddit, before asking.
I was both surprised and disappointed I didn't get more throw out of the W1s than the XP-Ps. Especially considering the CRI and CCT difference. The 3000K XP-Ps are the 2nd lowest flux bin Cree sells and they throw just as far as the W1s. And they actually throw farther on lower settings for example on step 65 the 3000K measure higher candela. On turbo they are about equal. The 4000K out-throw both at every level but not by much, not anything noticeable to the eye.
The whole idea of putting them in there was that I thought they would outthrow a similar 70CRI 6000K XP-P and since I have a bunch of W1s that would save me from placing another order.
As far as the FWAA goes it's limited by the battery size. 14500 max rated are 10A if you buy the Vapcell H10. Factor in some resistance and such and you probably get about 7-9A of actual output, somewhere in there. XP-P can only be driven to 3A safely. So in an FWAA they are nearly maxed out in terms of output. A W1 can be driven to 5-6A safely and at those outputs would definitely out throw an XP-P. So all in all it seems the XP-P has a little bit higher candela/watt or something like that than the W1.
Now I want to try one of the higher Flux bin XP-P.