What did you mod today?

Q8 modded

- cleaned the brass ring

- 3.2mm holes and countersunk 120° on the driver

- spring bypass

- Reflector screw replaced and LEDs centered

- original lubricant with a lot eloxal removed and replaced

- glue from all holes removed cutting the threads again

  • some glue from the tubes tail blank surfaces removed

Unsoldered LEDs and switch just holding my temp stabilized iron at 300°C at the other side
also skillet might work well

then cut the trace to one LED and add a resistor

add solder paste

add resistor and wire

2 white LEDs with 19.1kOhms each
the camera might be false because of the button here, both are excactly the same brightness

Cool stuff Lexel.
basically same to mine with only one 0805 size 22K resistor in original placement, it barely fit, but works. My white LEDs are also blue under the cap, not that blue to the eye but camera looks more blue.

Lexel, I find you work to be remarkable. Always enjoy seeing your creativity.

I swapped the emitter in my D4 few weeks ago for the KD 4000K ones, and today I decided to slice the domes for a little more throw :

Before and after :

As expected, the throw is improved and the tint has changed for a more rosy beam, nothing bad at all :slight_smile:
Unfortunately, the beam is now more square-ish, as in the XP-L HI version I would guess.

Made a metal switch for the Noctigon M43

And did the D4 too


With 2 LEDs in diagonale, when seing this some people with OCD are going to be pissed.

That is the way they are set out with the three different colours, just more noticeable now, but you’re right, I prefer it when the green ones are lit :smiley:

This is the third iteration of this mod

I’d wish i had your skills and creativity.

Thanks mate, but I wasn’t born with them, it’s more of a perseverance thing :smiley:

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Got a Jaxman X1S XHP35 HI C4

Stock was pulling 1050lm and 110.000cd

swapped the emiter with a XHP35 E2 3C and added a R100 resistor to the driver

now it blasts 1650lm and 181.000cd.

It’s surprising how good is this flashlight with two inexpensive mods.

Did my very first de-dome.
As it was my very first time doing this. I first tested the method on my “beater” light, an old “UltraFire XML-L2 U2 800lm 7000K”.
Got the sinkpad out, and left it in a sealed container with gasoline over night.
12 hours later the dome came off with no force at all, in one big piece. That was surprisingly easy :smiley:

Throw is better, more focused beam, and the color is warmer. But i do have to get used to the green’ish tint it has now.

I did a similar thing, putting Nichia 219C (4000K, 90+ CRI) LEDs into a Vollsion SP11-S and Fenix E99Ti.

Left to right in these pictures: Vollsion SP11-S, Fenix E99Ti, BLF-348. Before and after.



Some more pictures

I have a Solarforce L2P with an M3 head on it, modified it several years ago with a de-domed XM-L2 and Wights Rev 1 MOSFET driver, it had the big Vishay 07N02 on it. Already had a McClicky switch from the previous mod session.

Set out today to bring it up to date with an SST-40 emitter. Went fine til I put a fresh charged Sony VTC5A in it, at a bit over 9.7A the emitter balked, it’d light and show 5 modes but was very dim. So. I took it back apart and went a different direction using LED4Power’s LD2 driver and a new XM-L2 U4 1A emitter. Making a nice beam, pulling 4A at the tail on a VTC5 for 1090.2 lumens. Moon or the lowest setting is 4.5195 lumens, with a 61.41 lumen Low and 522.33 lumen High. I didn’t do any spring bypasses, figured to leave it in an eco mode set so it lasts longer. :wink:

The SST40 showed me about 1600 lumens before it quit, using a VTC4 down to 3.78V.

Still, this old light now has a new modern driver and emitter, pretty nice light even by today’s standards. Seemed odd, going back to a P-60 style light. This one has a bigger reflector screwed onto the brass pill, but still. Oh well, it was something to do for a little while anyway. lol

I modded the moon today.

Well, maybe not *the* moon, but moon levels, at least.

I added dynamic CPU underclocking and some idle modes to make low levels more efficient. The result is that moon mode runtime went up by about 3X or 4X.

Love the warm colors :heart_eyes:

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l42dk, I need some of your gas! That’s a VERY clean de-dome! Nice work! :wink:


I change the led of my manker e14 to xp-e2 to amber red, change the driver to amc7135*8 for safety
Now it looks very “red” and quite scary to me :stuck_out_tongue:
(The wire on TIR is temporary, i removed it)

ehm, my E14 has 4 leds

USB rechargeable Emisar D4 with red locator light

Edit:

The heatshrink was keeping in too much heat so I removed it and tidied the tail up a bit

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