I can get around 2.5 hours on high with the tripple cute with a 14.8v 5800mah lipo. The tripple cute uses a taskled H6flex driver it does however have different levels of brightness and different levels depending on which user interface you use:
They are as follows
4.1 Fixed (UIF)
Intended for lanterns, household and automotive lighting. Eight brightness levels. Ability to turn on at
lowest setting, and quickly change to highest setting without scrolling. Press while on to scroll all
levels. Click turns on, and click turns off.
4.2 Portable (UIP)
Intended for hand-held torches. Five brightness levels. Ability to turn on at lowest setting. Ability to
switch directly to high setting from any other level. Press while off to scroll all levels. Click turns on,
and click turns off.
4.3 Bicycle (UIB2/UIB2Q)
Intended for bicycle lighting. Separate modes for constant and strobe (two, three or five levels each).
From off, a click turns on to constant mode, and a long press turns off. From off, a press turns on to
strobe mode, and a long press turns off. Constant and strobe modes are identical in operation and
Menu choice – except for the click or press to enter the individual modes. In the 2-level Duomode,
brightness changes are controlled by clicking to toggle between the two chosen levels. In the 3-level
Threemode, clicking increases brightness to the upper two levels and then toggles between those two
levels, a press will dim to the lowest level and further pressing will turn the light off. In the 3-level
Trimode, clicking toggles through the three levels and wraps back to the lowest level.In 5-level
Multimode, clicking increases brightness and pressing decreases brightness.
Troutie was kind enough to publish the current draw based on the max level of 3amps
level------draw amps------------ watts
1------------0.03 ---------------0.444
2------------0.12 ---------------1.776
3------------0.40 ---------------5.92
4------------1.14 ---------------16.87
5------------2.14 -------------- 31.67
As for the mini cute i use a 7.4v 5800mah lipo, this again should see about 2.5hours on high that is based on the 1370lumen board which i do not think is suitable for this housing.
I recommend the 1100 lumen version which will see a little longer runtime and the thermal properties will be much better.
Hope that helps
and have watched the build up on MTBR .
