Small Sun – ZY-T08 Best of both worlds (beamshots uploaded)

[The_Miller]

Wow very nice and impressive!

[Rufusbduck]

Nice mod. I’m guessing the circles are reflected light from the inside of the exterior lens/air interface illuminating the epoxy around the reflector(if that makes any sense).

[Jerommel]

You did an awesome job ! :+1:

[Gerrit]

Culla, you’ve done a fantastic job.

[X31 (-X3-)]

As usual, this mod is top notch !
I’m truly jealous of your skills/patience/ideas !
Good job !

[FmC]

Awesome mods. Thanks for sharing

[MRsDNF]

Couldn’t agree more with everyone’s comments. Amazing effort and skills. Thanks for posting it up.

[djozz]

Outstanding work again!
You chose one of the ugliest hosts around (in my opinion) but that does not matter, after you’re done it is a wow light!!

[giorgoskok]

Another 5* mod from you Cula !

Thanks for sharing…

[WestBam]

Wow, nice mod, great job :+1:

[Manx]

WOW!!
Avesome job!!!
Bravo!!! :+1:

[pieman7]

Impressive! Thank you for taking the time to take pics at each step of the process.
Questions:

1. Is there any “springiness” or compression room remaining in the spring bypass setup? In other words, any wiggle-room for slightly different lengths of batteries? Maybe this doesn’t matter since protected cells will never be used here
2. What is your preferred method of sanding and polishing the exterior? Great idea using rope for the cooling fins!

[Beachlogger]

You could be a jeweler, :heart_eyes:

[Sledgestone]

Fantastic job! I only wish I had the knowledge to do something similar myself… One day I’ll try to mod something. I think I’ll start with a S2+ triple.

[san_san]

AMAZING MOD.

[Cula]

Thank you guys for your comments .

@Rufusbduck

Nice mod. I’m guessing the circles are reflected light from the inside of the exterior lens/air interface illuminating the epoxy around the reflector(if that makes any sense).

You are indeed right. It is a reflection from AR lenses.

@djozz

Outstanding work again!
You chose one of the ugliest hosts around (in my opinion) but that does not matter, after you’re done it is a wow light!!

@pieman7

Impressive! Thank you for taking the time to take pics at each step of the process.
Questions:

1. Is there any “springiness” or compression room remaining in the spring bypass setup? In other words, any wiggle-room for slightly different lengths of batteries? Maybe this doesn’t matter since protected cells will never be used here
2. What is your preferred method of sanding and polishing the exterior? Great idea using rope for the cooling fins!

1) Barely, don’t have any protected ones to try. I can’t be sure.

2) I used something like this mounted on my bench drill (https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/brv/Wolfcraft-2178000-Hobby-Polishing-Metals-Plastics-Marble/B0011LQGBE) and a lot of elbow grease . This kit can be bought in almost every hardware store.

[ImA4Wheelr]

Very nice build and thread. Congrats and thank you for sharing. :)

[Cythras]

Holy crap. That is beautiful; your mirror polished parts are always breathtaking. I’ve seen something similar to the blue rings before; I think It’s caused by the AR coating on the glass. I have a 20mm AR lens with an unknown origin, and it projects a blue ring of light from it for some strange reason.

[Cula]

Here are some beamshots. Pictures don’t do the justice but that is the best I could do with my limited photograph skills.

Also did current measurements:
Low low - 0.12A
Low - 0.18A
Mid - 1.14A
High - 3.27A
Turbo - 11.10A

1. White wall

2. Control 1 (lots of street light, distance 70 meters)

3. Beamshot 1

4. Control 2 (distance 25 meters)

5. Beamshot 2

Cheers

[Mike_C]

Nice build! How long did the polishing take?

Is the ZY-T08 tail switch only, or dual switch? I thought I saw somewhere that newer models have an E-switch.