If it is avalible in Poland, so it should be avalible in Germany too...
These year Petzl move his lazy corporate ass earlier and we have new headlamp available in December, not in January.
So, the good old Myo XP revision 3 looks like that :
From outside, they only change the color, again⦠But there is nice orange inscription over the collimator âRegulated â Programableâ oh yeah
So what they change inside ??
Good old temperature-sensitive resistor in the foreground, but in the background there are some mayor changes.
Nothing unexpected, the SSC P4 U1SW0H star, also better than Myobelt XP that I get yesterday, there was only T2 star.
Some closer look on the PCB :
After removing some glue we have a winner of this content :
4K FLASH 256B SRAM 20SSOP Cypress Semiconductor CY8C24123A-24PVXI microcontroller
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http://download.cypress.com.edgesuite.net/design_resources/datasheets/contents/cy8c24223a_8.pdf
So when we know what is inside, how it works ? Quite good I must to admit, but check yourself :
From brand new batteries :
From freshly charged NIMHâs
Only 16% difference in led power in the boost and highest mode and almost no difference in lower modes. 700+ mA
in high mode looks quite impressing compared to almost 300 mA that you can remember from Myo XP. According to the manual - high mode (default 10 - 140 lumens) is unregulated, mid (default 6 - 51 lumens) and low (default 4 - 25 lumens) are regulated.
Ok, now some beam shots Myo RXP vs Myo XP
On high
On mid
On low
These year Petzl move his lazy corporate ass earlier and we have new headlamp available in December, not in January.

So, the good old Myo XP revision 3 looks like that :
From outside, they only change the color, again⦠But there is nice orange inscription over the collimator âRegulated â Programableâ oh yeah

So what they change inside ??
Good old temperature-sensitive resistor in the foreground, but in the background there are some mayor changes.
Nothing unexpected, the SSC P4 U1SW0H star, also better than Myobelt XP that I get yesterday, there was only T2 star.
Some closer look on the PCB :
After removing some glue we have a winner of this content :
4K FLASH 256B SRAM 20SSOP Cypress Semiconductor CY8C24123A-24PVXI microcontroller

http://download.cypress.com.edgesuite.net/design_resources/datasheets/contents/cy8c24223a_8.pdf
So when we know what is inside, how it works ? Quite good I must to admit, but check yourself :
From brand new batteries :
Code:
V-in I-In P-In V-led I-led P-led Eff.
high 3,65 0,8215 3,00 3,28 0,8458 2,77 92,5%
mid 4,28 0,3095 1,32 3,06 0,3086 0,91 69,0%
low 4,44 0,1709 0,76 2,96 0,1640 0,46 61,2%
boost 3,63 0,8522 3,09 3,29 0,8608 2,83 91,5%
From freshly charged NIMHâs
Code:
V-in I-In P-In V-led I-led P-led Eff.
high 3,50 0,7431 2,60 3,25 0,7183 2,33 89,8%
mid 3,84 0,3070 1,18 3,05 0,3026 0,92 78,3%
low 3,97 0,1590 0,63 2,96 0,1593 0,47 74,7%
boost 3,45 0,7562 2,61 3,26 0,7483 2,44 93,5%
Only 16% difference in led power in the boost and highest mode and almost no difference in lower modes. 700+ mA

Ok, now some beam shots Myo RXP vs Myo XP

On high
On mid
On low