foxtrot824
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KX9-A tear down and XHP35 HI mod, lots of pictures
The KX9-A LED conversion head is an older and under performing unit that I haven't seen around much. After seeing it surface on eBay I decided to pick one up and modify it, being an M series head it is large so it has plenty of space and mass for heat sinking.
Since the light was born with an XM-L emitter I'm tempted to stick with something like an XHP-50 so I can use the same optic (more or less), but before we being all that work let's establish a baseline. The stock CCT was just terrible, very green. Measured about 480 lumens running off of two 17500s. (which is about right since there wasn't a correction factor applied and was measured in a very large sphere). The CRI was 67 somehow, just sooooo green.
The before the modding pictures, such a large light compared to E and P series lights.
See how green the KX9-A looks compared to the 6p that has a Tana triple putting out a perfect 4900K on the line white
As I open up the head I'll post pictures, I'm still looking for a host to put this on so if anyone is looking to get rid of a two cell host let me know, Thanks.
The KX9-A LED conversion head is an older and under performing unit that I haven't seen around much. After seeing it surface on eBay I decided to pick one up and modify it, being an M series head it is large so it has plenty of space and mass for heat sinking.
Since the light was born with an XM-L emitter I'm tempted to stick with something like an XHP-50 so I can use the same optic (more or less), but before we being all that work let's establish a baseline. The stock CCT was just terrible, very green. Measured about 480 lumens running off of two 17500s. (which is about right since there wasn't a correction factor applied and was measured in a very large sphere). The CRI was 67 somehow, just sooooo green.
The before the modding pictures, such a large light compared to E and P series lights.
See how green the KX9-A looks compared to the 6p that has a Tana triple putting out a perfect 4900K on the line white
As I open up the head I'll post pictures, I'm still looking for a host to put this on so if anyone is looking to get rid of a two cell host let me know, Thanks.
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