Ah-haaa, a “possible” clue. :+1: … 
That’s right teacher, it could well be that it has issues with Authority. 
mutts, your light came this morning on the brown truck.
And, your light is now fixed. I need to address a couple of things again later this afternoon but it’s working…
23.6 lumens
58.58
135.59
377.78
979.8
2163.15
4802.4
Edit: On freshly charged LG HE-4 button tops I show 5064.6 lumens
Wait a minute! What was wrong with it? What did you fix?
I fixed what was wrong with it. lol
I figured that in a build like this the most likely candidate for something going wrong was in some of the soldering that had to take place. Justin changed the battery carrier and how the cells interact with the driver contact board, and it was here that the problem was… one of the copper discs that Justin had soldered to the outer ground ring had broken loose. And one of the brass locator pins for the tail pcb where you remove cells had also come out.
Seems that Justin only soldered the copper disc at the very edge, didn’t glue it to the board. So I repaired it by gluing it down with JB Weld and re-soldering the ground contact. Also added solder bumps to the discs so they’d contact the negative end of the cell solidly.
Put the locator back in and soldered the two of em to be sure they were staying, and it works fine. I have 4 cells in it with the tail cap snugged down in order to press the copper disc in place and am allowing the JB Weld to finish curing. This evening I’ll make sure the solder is good at the ground ring and re-enforce it as needed.
Nice work Dale and its good to see the mateship at work here. :+1:
Not sure if this was wanted, but I, uh, bumped it.
The converted tail pcb with it’s solder wick bypassed springs seemed to not be pressed into the ground contacts inside the body by the tail cap, so I was looking at what would be a good way to ensure this would happen when the tail cap was screwed down, and also could it be done to improve current. Justin cut the traces on the top of the pcb and made it 2S2P in configuration, tying the two cells together with 20ga Teflon wire. So, I looked through the kit I bought from Justin and found some 14 Ga wire. Cut a couple of these and soldered them in beside the Teflon wires to do 2 things, both carry more current and also be thick enough with the silicone sheath’s to assist the tail cap in pressing down firmly enough to assure ground.
This worked to the extent of bumping output from 5064.6 lumens to 6285.9 lumens, this on freshly charged LG HE-4 button tops.
I’m going to highly recommend gluing the body to the head to keep from doing damage to the driver board and it’s 2 copper discs. I have it screwed together quite snugly, but it’d be best to glue it.
I know, right?
Justin built in a governor, I’m going with that. 
Thanks for all you do Dale.
Later,
Keith
Dalw… all I can say is thank you and wow! I haven’t been by a computer all day so I am reading everything right now…
From the cheering section………….
Dale , Dale he’s the Man……If its broke he will fix it fast as he can.
WTG , another job well done in record time and great results in the end.
Got it boxed up and ready to go back to UPS tomorrow, I’ll post or send a PM when I get that done, will probably be before lunch.
You still have my address Dale?
I was thinking the other way—I need Dale’s address — I could send him some of the ones I’m too lazy to fix
Must be some kind of record… received at 10:00 AM yesterday morning, put it back in the hands of UPS at 9:00 AM this morning, 23 hours turnaround and 1221 lumens brighter to boot.
<— 11 days away from a vacation. (well, sorta) Will be out of pocket for a couple of months after June 1…
You just couldn’t help yourself :laughing: Glad it got sorted :+1:
Excellent outcome in all ways it sounds like!
Oops, must have missed this. Glad it worked out. If you were up much upstate, maybe not too convenient but I would have helped out.
Glad to see Dale goter goin though. If I would have had it, might have been difficult to get back - I always missed out on deals from O-L, either to buy or for giveaways. Always wanted one, just never got lucky 
