7000 Post Giveaway - ImA4Wheelr (w/RMM Sponsoring) - Winner is Boaz

the latest mod i’ve done/posted on the forum
convoy s2+ 18350 triple xp-e2,DD driver.

I’m in! :smiley:

Here is a mod I made a while back, still have it and like it a lot.

Modded JKK-13 USB flashlight, now has an XPL-HI V3


I’ve done mods but haven’t posted because they are simply not as neat or spectacular as most of what’s posted here. Yesterday, I cut the head of a VG10 short and put a triple, seoul, z power LED star inside mostly because these LEDs, though low luminesence, has the best tint I’ve ever seen! (and they were the only triples I havee, lol) Tools used, file, hacksaw, knife, wire cutter. YES, it was a PITA to do with hand tools and there’s a blister to show for it! lol. Driver is an RMM, FET+1. No current measurements taken as yet. ( I still have to put epoxy around the colimator to make it waterproof.)

A couple after pics:

(Only mod posted a long time ago is a convoy S3 converted to a headlamp: EDC/Convoy S3 headlamp (MOD))

Congratulations on the 7000 true flashoholic posts, ImA4Wheelr! :slight_smile:

A mod that required a lot of fixing before it finally turned out right, a Solarstorm SC02 modded with DrJones RGBW driver, colour XP-E2’s and a Nichia 219A high CRI:

Mr. 7000!

That’s more posts than I have lights :smiley:

After joining BLF, this is the first light I modded. Originally it was Black and had a CREE X-PE. Ran on 3 - AAA cells and for it’s size it threw pretty good. What I did was strip off the Black anodizing and I tried to re-anodize and stain it Purple. After many attempts I just couldn’t get all 3 pieces the same shade of purple. So I settled on just anodizing the center tube and I buffed the tailcap and head. I also upgraded it to an XM-L, Direct Drive and used some copper pennies for a heat sink. Later I converted it to run on a single 18500 Li-ion. Back then, it never occurred to me to post my efforts.
Like I mentioned, my very first LED mod.

Congratulations on surviving BLF for so long without going Bankrupt! :stuck_out_tongue:

Thank you for the GAW and MtnE for contributing.
I have learned from you and many others on here.

And to highlight Richards work here is a VG10 built with his parts and his reflowed Tpad Quad with XP-L HI V3 3C and New Fet+1 on Bistro.

Link to my mod post in What did you Mod today.

ThorFire VG10 Quad
Baked to a champagne with polished head
XP-L HI V3 3C on Tpad Quad. MtnE Fet+1 Bistro, Carclo 10622 24mm quad Narrow Spot Plain TIR, Springs bypassed. Tpad soldered to copper spacer.






Congrats on the 7000 4wheeler. :beer:

$$$ toward RMM is an awesome giveaway! I think I’ll enter! :wink:

So I’ll mention my DIY triple spacer mod I coincidentally posted here TWO YEARS AGO TODAY! :partying_face:

Using a 3/4” brass PEX plug from Lowes, I was able to successfully make spacers for my triple builds. This has worked very well, as I have built three triples using this same $2.19 plumbing piece:

1. A triple 2.8A regulated high-CRI Nichia 219b in a Convoy S2
2. A triple 2.8A regulated XM-L2 in a Convoy S3
3. A triple FET-Driven XP-L HI in a Convoy S6

…and they have all worked great using this technique.


…via Convenient budget spacer for Triple EDC found... @ Lowe's!

Shameless bump. Surely more folks have posted (or will post) mods and are RMM Mountain Electronics fans.

Really great posts folks. Thank you for joining the GAW.

M43 XPL HI 12A 10kLm mod

Congrats on the 7K posts! Not very high quality modding, but I got my Sunwayman V11R turned into a triple running on AA battery. https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/33424

This link is to one of the first lights I modded, JM05. It was also one off my favorite lights that was loaned out and never returned.

I wish I hadn’t seen that :slight_smile:

Congrats and here is my modest mod:

replaced the original switch a switch from HB light

Wowser what a build. Love it.

I have only done a couple of custom builds (but it didn’t make a thread on them here so I’m not in).

Congratulations and thanks to ImA4Wheelr! For his contributions and the GAW; and a special thanks to RMM for sponsoring this GAW.

What an awesome forum.

Bob

How about my first assembly of a light from parts bought from RMM?

Link here. It’s an S2 Convoy tube with a triple Carclo elliptical optic.

7000 posts …really ??

My 2 cent mod still hanging in years later

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Tell me about it! I can't believe I have made that many posts. Doesn't feel like it.

Thanks for all the great posts and comments guys. Been meaning to visit all of the links posted, but time has been pretty short lately.

Take yer time! I’m still hoping to get a mod thread done in time to join this GAW! If you read all the threads before drawing a number, maybe I’ll have time to get in! :stuck_out_tongue:

EDIT: I got a mod thread up! Here it is.

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Thank you for bringing that up DavidEF. Part of my goal with this giveaway was to encourage folks to get into modding. Lets go for April 20th. Five days after the big tax day in the USA.

Please remember to put your mod link in your first post to this thread as the OP says only the first post counts. I inadvertently created that restriction when I made the OP, but its too late now to changed the rules.

Adding an Update comment to the OP now.