Had this light (Ultrafire V10) waiting for a mod for ages (think it is slightly big for a 16340 light) but yesterday I modded it with lighted tail (lime, orange, red), BG bistro driver (with fix), and Nichia 219B V1 sm453 R9080 led (from the great effort of Clemence et al.) on 16mm Noctigon. The driver floating above the contact plate, lighted ring version with 3x2leds (3x5.9KOhm+5.9kOhm in series with everything).
The lighted tail needs the leds a bit more balanced in output some time, and I had to add the extra 5.9kOhm resistor to restore the user interface, so it is quite dim now (which is ok) and everything works.
The beam has a ring in it from the bezel, but nothing annoying in real life. It throws a good spot, with 450 lumen @30 seconds max (well over 3A current), and the great bistro UI takes care of all other modes. The rosy tint with total absence of yellow is not 100% my cup of tea , but the clarity and colour contrast of this led is sublime!
Wellā¦
The protruding bits turned out to protrude too much, so set out to shave some off with a dremel fixed to a bench, but the mill bit grabbed itā¦
So i was really dumb to not make sure the thickness was as should be before soldering the LED to the boardā¦
Changed the optic on a HC30 to a 45 degrees TIR.
Now it has a nice even spill when working outside.
Though I kept the lens, to press the O-ring down and keep it waterproof.
A very fiddly driver spring bypass, and a rather severe grinding job on the retaining ring to increase the internal diameter:
Wired up my 219C tripleā¦just need to attach the NTC resistor, once the silicone cures, and itās good to go.
I wasnāt happy with the wire solder job, so Iāve since preheated the pill and resoldered the wires. It looks a bit better now.
Considering itās my first reflow (using a clothes iron, no lessā¦thanks lampyris!), Iām pretty damn pleased (and rather surprised) that it actually works.
I bought a light off of taobao and modded it. Hereās the work I did: changed out the OP reflector to a dual stage smooth reflector (much like pflexproās hybrid reflector) (I had to trim the reflector shorter to fit in the light), mtn 7135+FET driver w/ Bistro, bypassed springs both driver and switch, blue tail light switch, xpl2 v5 4000k led, blue GITD led centering ring, and epoxied a magnet ring on the tail end of the light.
Finished putting my S2+ 219C triple togetherā¦again.
Learned a very important lesson in the process, if youāre soldering a Noctigon to a copper pill, check it in the host with the optics to ensure that itās level before soldering the driver wires. :person_facepalming:
Managed to nudge one of the LEDs out of place in the re-reflow tooā¦not my finest moment, but at least I got it back together and itās working!
Latest ThorFire VG10 that has spacers under emitter to compensate for bad design.
Rebuilt this light using an M2 Convoy reflector left over from an M2 Quad build. While it does physically fit into the head of the VG10 with spacers removed I did have to file/sand the top of the M2 reflector for the thicker Noctigon MCPCB and reflector spacer used. Also the choice of O-ring will determine how much material need to be removed for the bezel to seat properly.
Used 20mm Noctigon with XM-L2 U4 1A and an A6 Fet driver.
