What did you mod today?

Yes, it’s doable with stock driver, I built the first version this way:

Meanwhile I did some tests with different resistors and found a reasonable configuration with 3k for XP-G2, which results in about 500 uA for a useful brightness.

Nice, but the pictures don’t show up for me. That is such a cool little light. Do you have measured throw numbers?

Wow what a powerhouse. And with those aspire 18350s the capacity is more decent.

Pills that were equipped with convoy retaining ring had no slots for unscrewing. I think Ive sold ~100pcs (several assembled) but nobody even asked me how to assemble it. Pretty simple, assemble everything outside host, screw hard driver ring while pill is fixed for cylindrical part, and then use same holes on ring to screw it inside host.
All new pills are equipped with custom rings and both pill and ring have milled slots.

Thanks Dale :wink:
I like that background as well, despite sometimes it is hard to make a good colour balance (well, it is juts a cellphone :smiley: )!

Yup, you did tell me that and that’s the reason why I have your “saying” in my signature, you predicted it all! And inspired it in some way seeing all the nice “enlightened” creatures you bring to us :+1:
Thank you!!! :blush:

Sorry - been having difficulties with google images lately - pics should be back now.

…& I’m not even going to mention the “T”word until my new lux meter turns up…. :nerd_face:

Thanks for your answer
Since i had to file down the retaining ring quite a lot for the TA driver, i could not get it as tight as i would like (since the notches were gone from the ring)
Thats why i filed down the nothes on the pill :sunglasses:

I’d bug Hank about adding this by default, but I think he might have more ambitious goals in mind. Still, it’d be nice to have a supermoon mode built in to the stock light.

Have a couple x5/x6 drivers from BG, and a couple lighted switches. Been waiting to find a host that will accept the lighted switch PCB, but no luck and got tired of waiting.

Went through my parts bin and found a few 219b’s a few Noctigon boards, a bunch of p60 pills and an OP p60 reflector. Soldered the Noctigon to the pill, reflowed the 219b to the Noctigon, and installed the driver. Did not work, not one bit. Visually, I could not find nothing wrong with it. Maybe 219b dont like the DTP pad on the noctigon, or maybe bad reflow? I dont know.

Took the driver out and looked at my shelf… Saw an old XinTD X3 sitting there, unloved. It had a decent driver in it, think it was the 4 mode qlite. Nice tint emitter. Put the X5 driver in it, and fired right up in moonlite.

I ignored doing an emitter or driver swap in the X3 because it just seemed like it would be a pain in the arse to work inside the head, but was surprisingly easy.

I had put a royal blue switch boot in it as soon as I got it, like all my lights that will take it. The switch boots have a shorter nub that the X3 came with. With the new UI, I felt the slop in the switch felt wrong, so set out to fix it. I found a mechanical pencil eraser that fit in the switch spacer hole perfect, kept trimming it down until it was a solid responsive feel. But at that time it was too short and didnt stay in the spacers hole securely. So I chopped up a black boot to fit, was too tight, so chopped just the nub out and same result as the eraser. Finally I tried the switch with out the plastic spacer ring, and perfection. Nice responsive feel with out being too sensitive to touch.

Another problem I had and fixed a while ago with this light was issues with using a 26650. I thought the 26650 was too long and pushing on the driver and causing shorts. turned out it was contacting the metal switch assembly. I had cut out a washer of sorts to fit around the brass negative contact, but isolate the switch assembly. Never had a problem with any of my 26650s again in it.

Love the options with this new driver. I have been sitting here for 30 mins or so trying to set thermal regulation. Just shut the light off and decided with the XML2, it does not need it in this host.

New light built: Sofirn C8F with three XP-L HI V3 3C. Inside Lexel’s board with customized Narsil. Comparision pictures with BLF A6 (the same LED) are in linked album. Pulls 10A on turbo, so it should be ~3000lm.

Fenix HP11 with replaced led and cable

Nichia 219C 90CRI

And Olight S15 baton, fried and with ledil optics and driver from bronte v3 (buck-boost 0,9-9v)

Nice work above from Pulsar, g_damian and Hemionline, modding still thrives at BLF!

g_damian, did you consider using the switch leds?, I think that maybe both the Sofirn C8f host and driver support it.

Thanks djozz, now need to decide on what emitter to use in it. It’s got a nice tint xml2 already though…
Kept playing with my ut02 today. Would love to get the GT UI on it, but looks like the driver board is kind of a unique shape. Maybe can be flashed? Dunno…

Can’t wait for Lexel to start making ut-02 sized boost drivers. They will enable any BLF UI as well as give a nice power boost.

That would be pretty sweet.

Thanks! I have focused on NarsilM modifications, but that’s definitely the good idea.

I did cosmetic work on a Sofirn C8F host this morning, the inside is still empty. Blowtorched the body parts for a fading dark to middle brown, then lots of disc-sanding: added a Foybezeledtm SS C8 bezel from Simon, and removed the ears from the tail (I never use lanyards).

Nice work djozz and I dont even have to Goggle what a Foy bezel is. :slight_smile:

:smiley:
But perhaps a cross-reference is in place here: Foybezel.

That’s sweet looking Jozz! Nice work!