Low-cost copper pills, spacers, optics, drop-ins (Updated 23/10/2022))

21mm would still be able to squeeze inside most 18650 lights too when you consider the wall thickness of the tube the battery sits inside of. It would be nice if everyone could move away from 17mm up to the 20-22mm range to give more driver space, allowing for more complex buck and Boost drivers.

I don’t know that any other adapter sizes are needed besides the 3 listed though. Maybe 26mm for some of the buck drivers on fasttech.

I 100% agree. I have been asking jdubs to pitch this to Convoy for some time. If the retaining ring for the driver screwed into the head instead of the pill it would allow a 20-21mm driver to fit in lights with no changes.

That little bit of extra space with a 20-21mm driver is key to making a lot of newer driver designs work. You need every bit of space you can get.

20mm driver can already fit using the current retaining ring design for lights like C8, M1, M2 with the integrated shelf. Just have to modify the driver pocket very slightly. I did it with a C8 to get an XHP50.2 and H1-A driver inside.

For the S series your idea of using the main threading for the retaining ring would be perfect. I actually sent a PM to jdub about a month ago myself requesting larger drivers in any new development lights.

I look forward to seeing what new developments there are when the 21700 batteries begin to hit the market.

I was thinking about this when somebody requested making S2+ pill for 20mm driver.
This idea is not as good as it gets. Regular S2+ pill is good because you can make full assemble outside and then just screw it inside host. My pills even dont have screwing holes, I use those one that are drilled in retaining ring. With 20mm driver place, there is no “meat” to make holes or even grooves to screw separate pill (without ring). Tightening ring after pill is screwed down is not very safety, you need to hold driver from rotating to prevent wires broke. Host threads pitch is 2.5 time more than stock retaining ring, this means that you need to apply more screwing force to reach same surface pressure. But if you will apply it, this “sandwich” will clamp together (same thing can be made with two nuts over one bolt tightened hard to each other) and removing ring may become mission:impossible.
20mm driver place looks more reasonable for lights with integrated shelf and separate head (A6, X2R) or bigger models.

The idea with the S2 series is that you use a pill much like the stock one, only with a larger internal bore in the driver cavity.

You assemble the pill like normal with the driver sitting against the bottom of the pill but nothing actually holding it in place.

You then screw the pill into the light, this is the only have part that is a bit tricky as it would be hard to get to the pill to screw it down with a 20mm driver covering it up.

Then you simply screw down a retaining ring over the top of everything. I have not had issues with the driver spinning in cases like this personally, if that was a problem it would not be hard to hold it in place.

I ordered this - Copper spacer BLF X6/Eagle Eye X6/Astrolux S2 for Ledil Cute-3 triple 8.6mm height

Everything is OK. Thank you :+1:

PM sent

Noob question about Khatod quad spacer for M1: What is the mcpcb diameter for it? Driver diameter? Would it require drilling a hole down the middle?

20mm pcb. It was made for tpad pcb, you can use those that are available now from mtn but you will need to open holes for optics legs. As other spacers, there is no driver place, you just use stock host driver place. Yes, you need to drill central hole in the stock shelf. X5/M1/M2/VG10 kits are pretty similar and easy for build.

Received the copper spacer for a convoy s3 a few weeks ago. Shipping time was decent. It shipped from seller very fast, took a little longer making it through Russia but overall very pleased with the shipping time. It seems to perform quiet well in the s3. The bezel did not go all the way down but it was close, used the glass lense on top of the optics so it wasn’t unexpected. Overall I’m very pleased and will deffiently be ordering again.

Just got back into town and my M2 quad spacer was waiting for me. Packaging was perfect. Shipping time, again, was not bad at all. Thanks again!!!

Now any suggestions for what LEDs I should use for the quad I’m leaning 219b but kinda wanted to try the 319… driver will be MTN-17DDm for sure.

All previous parts were made with manual lathe. I give some “+” clearerence because pcbs, optics and even hosts are not same size, so you always can sand down spacer to make perfect fit your combination.

Ordered copper spacers for x6 and optics as well as for convoy c8. Top notch machined parts. Perfect!

One more price drop for many items.

Yep did that. Thanks for the suggestion, and kudos to DB for the idea.
Got a way more usefull beam profile after polishing it.

Got another order in yesterday, everything looks great again and packaging is top notch. The outside of the envelope was pretty beat up, but thanks to the way kiriba-ru wraps everything up the goodies on the inside were safe and sound.

No real need to. It went down almost all the way anyways. Works good as it is.

Package with a bunch of goodies arrived today. :+1:
Again very well packaged and pretty fast too. :+1:

Got mine yesterday. Well packaged as always. Beautiful assortment of triple soldered to the spacer. Already made an xpe triple with x5 blf driver. Excellent prices and workmanship!

Again need your advice guys.
I have several requests for aluminium X6 spacers and going to make some soon. As I know, regular eagle eye hosts, and SS/Cu versions have little bigger head ID, which fit 31.7mm spacer. At the same time, aluminium X6 sold as BLF X6 had smaller head ID, and required spacer size is 31.1mm. Where do you get X6 hosts nowdays? What head ID does it have?