Brinyte B158 mod thread

Does any of you try a XHP35 HI in this light ?
I have one body and want to try XHP35 HI in it, but I’m curious does anyone try it yet ?

Did you read the post just above yours? Finding a suitable driver for a 12V LED in a B158 is apparently not so easy.

Ok, no problem, I just aks if someone managed to find it or to make it and to try it, I want to know how it will work.

Should have known about this thread before!
On page one there’s the problem of the floating driver board, which in my case caused flickering.

So i did the obvious:

Double (but a little thin) springs upside down.

I see a copper wire around the neck of the pill - is that a spacer to get the pill closer to the lens (for wider flood I assume)?

How does it affect the tightness/focusing of the spot?

Yes, you assumed correctly. :slight_smile:
It doesn’t affect the focussing zoomed in, the head stops at the LED shelf of the pill, it moves past the copper ring (1.8mm diameter wire).
Planning on adding a bit more, because i like it when you can zoom out as far as possible and have a wide flood.

Speaking of zoomed in and focussing, i replaced the 1mm thick copper DTP MCPCB with a 1.6 mm thick one (Noctigon) so that it does no longer “over-zoom” but stops at focal distance of the lens.
So in all zoomed out has the lens now 1.8 + 0.6 = 2.4 mm closer to the LED than how i bought it.
(changed the switch too, it’s a reverse clicky now, and recessed the boot a bit so it can tailstand better)

Just wanted to share me slim edition mod. I very happy how it turned out…

Thats very sweet looking zipelgas. What did you blacken the tube with after smoothing it down?

+1 :+1:

It is good but you have orange peel of over spraying… Multiple mist coats works better than few heavy coats imo.

Jumbo size heat shrink tubing + sugru and an o-ring for that extra rubbery cigar gripy feel.

Nice!
I think Brinyte maybe agrees:

:slight_smile:

Thanks. :+1:

Where’s the sugru man? :question:
I really can’t see it!

I take that as a compliment :smiley:
As I heated the tube the ends got uneven and I had to trim them down and ended up 4mm short. So I filled the gap with black sugru, that I had left over. It’s the small gap between the rubber o-ring that is sitting in the lower groove and the shrink tube. Not much and it was not supposed to be there, but it all ended up surprisingly well.

How did you remove the knobs, lathe? I’m curious as this is one I’m planning a woody mod for as soon as I decide on what wood type to use.

Yep - it was done with a lathe. I found it to be too bulky for my pocket and now it’s really much more comfortable to hold.

Nice work. I might have a go at it myself. You didn’t paint anything, you used shrink tube and sugru? (have no idea what sugru is other than what google tells me).

I think heat shrink tubing is a very nice finishing option. Just learn from my mistakes and leave it a bit longer than needed. Heat almost to size, trim ends and then heat some more to fix. Lot less messy than paint.