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
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
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
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.
Last night, LED swap on Vollsion EOSLAMP SP11 from CREE XP-G2 to Nichia bin from Fasttech.
It’s warmer than I thought.
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.
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.
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.
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.
l42dk, I need some of your gas! That’s a VERY clean de-dome! Nice work!
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
(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
thumbs up for u CRX :+1:
ehm, my E14 has 4 leds
oops, i forgot to say i also change the mcpcb to fit the tir len, bought from kaidomain
I’ve been reading this and similar threads on here on a regular basis for the last year, but have not got involved despite doing lots of little projects and mods myself.
So to start off, I’d like to mention my recent DQG Tiny 18650 mod, which I documented here:
A short while ago, I decided that I wanted to make the most fully-featured EDC pocket-light of which I could reasonably conceive. After thinking of a few ideas and reading around lots of threads on here and r/flashlight for inspiration, I decided that I wanted an 18650 light which would output up to approx 1000lm, and that it must have a CRI of at least 80, and be neutral white (somewhere around 4000-5000K). And it must be as compact as I can physically make it. I decided to go with the most …
Finally I got my UT02 open. It has very low output. Only 897 lumens and it drawed 2,2A from battery. It has an intensity of 74800 Cd. And throwed 547m.
I tried to heat carefully with a heat gun but I can not break the glue with a pipe wrench.
I wrapped the head neck with a thick wire and wrapped the tube with leather. Then I had a ball joint press tool for cars. I tightened it on the tube.
Then I managed to break the glue. It has a lot.
The glue sticked the PCB too So I needed to remove the reflector and the switch board. The switch board also glued a little. And the reflector ripped off the led from the MCPCB. Luckily nothing damaged so I can resolder it.
I was able to desolder the led positive wire from the switch hole so with a screwdriver I can push the PCB out through the shelf led wire hole.
Then resistor modded the driver with R100. Reflowed the led on MCPCB. And assembled it again.
After the mod it draws 3,65A from battery.
It puts out 1250 lumens
Intensity: 103000 Cd
Throw: 642m
Still under specifications but for this current draw it has pretty good numbers and the current bump is safe for both driver and led.
I was given a Nitecore EA8 Caveman some time back, the one that takes 8 AA NiMH cells, and today I got around to modifying it so it has an up-to-date emitter. It was stock with an XM-L, I put an SST-40 in it on a thicker SinkPAD to better control heat. Nitecore claimed 900 lumens in stock form, now it does right at 1400 lumens, much better! The low Vf of the Luminus emitter allows it to do half again the output of an XM-L, even at the relatively low power level from the 4S2P AA’s.
Still can’t figure out why my Nitecore EC4 drains batteries like it does…
Been shuffling a lot of stuff around today, reduced my Convoy L2 with XHP-35 from 4 26650’s to 4 26350’s, also reduced my 2X Shooter from 4 18650’s to 4 18350’s. Cleared up some cells for other lights and should me about ready to mod my TR-J20. [again.]