Maybe y’all have heard me talk about the LiNiMnCo cell from Powerizer in the past, I got Tom E on them and he loved em, both of us wish we’d bought more while they were available… they’ve been discontinued for a couple of years. Anyway, I got the Efest 3500mAh cell charged back up and tested the F3X again, this time I got 7.06A for 2701.35 lumens, better with the reflector down onto the emitters, but still relatively low.
So I charged up one of my last remaining LiNiMnCo cells from Powerizer (Battery Space, but like I said, they no gottee). With this particular cell, the F3X pulls 9.95A and makes 3256.8 lumens. A 555 lumen increase by swapping cells! I do believe I’ll take it!
I don’t usually buy lights I can’t mod easily as I don’t have a huge need for them, and really only enjoy modding and building them. That said, I did get a Lumintop tool TI recently because I couldn’t resist the incredible price that gearbest was selling them for. I knew the head was glued and the e-switch, according to Rey, wasn’t going to handle a linear driver swap. I thought I could live with the MLH mode order, but quickly realized it just wasn’t for me.
I cracked open an Astrolux A01 and started doing some measuring. It’s a tight fit as the A01 uses a 2 board stack for the driver, and the tool uses a single board. The driver diameter of the tool is also much smaller than the A01. It look some time with a file, but I’m very happy with the result. I now have a Tool TI with the mode order I wanted and a brilliant moonlight level.
Thanks, yeah i’m just experimenting, i thought it would be cool if i can basically fit the whole light in the diffuser and have it lit up that way for compactness.
Still working on it.
If I don’t win it :disappointed: in your 1000 posts GAW, please consider if you’d be willing to make me a similar one. I really appreciate the unique personality of DIY handmade flashlights (& stuff in general) and love brass/copper (and wood) as material.
Was about to finish a 3up XP-E2 Convoy S3, but my cheap china-programmer refused to work…
Connection test gives me : “could not find USB device with vid=0x16c0 pid=0x5dc vendor=‘www.fischl.de’ product=‘USBasp’ ”
It’s strange because I didn’t change anything. Had it working on Windows 10 some days ago. Tried two different drivers, both with the above result… Don’t know if I need a new programmer or if it’s a software/driver related problem.
I have been tweaking my light canon, and I’m ALMOST at 1.5Mcd!!!
Sooo close… 61000 lux at 4.9m = 1.46Mcd…
I will post pics when I get to the magical 1.5!
Truly awesome Lux numbers, looking forward to seeing pics of the light and set up.
For what it’s worth, Canon is a registered trademark of a camera company, your use of the word would be cannon, as in long thrower. (just a bit of OCD coming through, right is right, after all)
Wouldn’t a light “cannon” project a large diameter beam, like the old aircraft search lights? Maybe I need coffee… sorry
Wow!! Congrats on this site unseen project! Try a reading at 10-15 meters, betcha you will get over 1.5 easy... I think every light I've tested at 5m got a nice little bump at ~12m, plus it's actually more accurate.
