Drill 3 holes in the side of the body tube of your light in a neat row near your driver the same width as the fiber optic.
Cut 3 pieces of fiber optic, one for each LED.
Glue one end of a fiber optic to the top of one of the small LEDs with Norland 61.
Glue the other end into the hole in your body tube.
Repeat for all 3 LEDs. The fiber optics will channel the light to the holes in the body tube. From the outside of the light it should look like the LEDs are mounted on the body rather than the driver.
OPTIONAL: Having the fiber optics glued to both the battery tube and the driver would make it impossible to easily remove the driver. Instead maybe press-fit the fiber optics into the holes in the body tube. Add a transparent window above or below the holes to prevent the optics from accidentally being pushed out.
Window - Instead of fiber optics maybe just add a small window to the light near the driver. Many lights use this method.
Drill a hole in the body tube near the driver.
Glue a lens over the hole. If you don’t want to see inside, use a frosted lens.
I just burned a hole in my computer chair while fine tuning the thermal control for my astrolux S1. A bit ironic, isn’t it? I put down the light head first and the synthetic fabric began smelling funny within 10 seconds. Removed the light and there was a nice round hole to the foam. I didn’t know that stuff melted so easily.
Broke a nanjg 105d driver trying to swap the MCU. I don’t actually know if it’s totally gone, but I lost 2 solder pads in the process. Plus I might have damaged the driver retaining ring on my c8 to the point I might never be able to unscrew it again without causing some damage to the host
I broke a glass vase today, dropped from a high shelf. The momentum was strong, sending tiny sharp pieces all over the place, making the floor a death trap. It would have been a special kind of hell to clean up the mess without missing a tiny piece.
But I had my light, X45 is my savior! A sixteen thousand lumen of salvation!
The floor was instantly filled with hundred thousands of twinkling little diamonds, and I collected every single one of them without a hassle.
I was being clumsy AF yesterday for no good reason. I dropped batteries a whole bunch of times and ended up denting a couple. Fortunately they were from my oldest set of Eneloops.
Broke the end off a 7135 chip on a 5-chip custom 105d driver, apparently by cranking down too hard on a driver retaining ring.
I suspect it was already cracked as I was tightening the retainer trying to restore proper behavior, it had quit working reliably.
Oops.
My Ice Maker broke itself today. Luckily I took out P.C. Richards’ 10 year warranty. Totally worth the $300 I spent. My warranty runs out in May of 2022.
Broke a leg from a AMC7135 in my attempt to bend and add to a driver, plus cracked a glass while assembling my S2+ triple. I guess I’m supposed to remove the glass when using the triple tir optics
Broke my smartphone, a Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo. Fell from my hand when I was fetching it off the hanging workpants during break time, when I was going to check my tracking codes (for a new Convoy S2 and a pair of Wii-Mote controllers)
But to be fair, I had already lost hope for it: the firmware didn’t update past Android Kit-Kat so I could hardly use the SD card storage, the outer host was all chipped paint, I couldn’t connect it to the PC as an external USB device (took forever to load, then failed), the screen had cracked under the protection, the silicone cover I put on it fell to desiccated pieces months ago, it sometimes crashed so hard it reset completely, and the battery was so worn, anything below 30% meant basically no charge at all. It was a trooper, but it’s been officially 3 years since I got it, and it was time to retire the old soldier ( v_v)7
Tonight, after I give my presentation for the final uni paper, I’m headed off to get a Motorola
Today i have learned the hard way that you always have to be careful with a soldering iron!
While solder blobbing brand new (my first 26650’s) i accidently shorted one (which gave a nice spark) because i had the big part/edge of the iron too close to the edge of the cell, that made the wrap melt, all because i forgot the size, im used to 18650’s probably, which never gave problems.
Cell is ok, need to rewrap it.
Ya…samsung…tried the USB fw thing…didnt work. I read in some forums you could remove the eeprom chip and reflash it, etc, etc…but that was above and beyond my capabilities and I would have to buy the hardware to reflash it with no guarantee it would solve the issue. Quickest and not much more expensive than buying chip flashers was just to replace the board. Installed it…works again…expensive lesson…ugh!
Not today, or even yesterday, but on March 25th I “broke” my arm/neck (slipped a couple of discs in my neck, pinched the radial nerve in my left arm. Still dealing with the arm pain even after surgery) while pruning trees away from the house …
on June 22nd (because of the March 25th incident) I broke a new spending record for myself. $100,805.35 for the Ti plate in my neck. Geesh.
And today, I broke another record for myself, as of 1:55 this afternoon I will be 55 yrs old, feeling it, feeling it all too well…
Have been on Dr.s orders to cease and desist for the past 8 weeks, who knows what I might have broken had I not been sitting around on my hands.
