Nicely done Mike, I was about to post up something but you made my little tinkering project look like a popsicle stick cabin job, Way to think outside the box, very sweet!
Oh man, I have to follow that wild mod?! I trimmed and shimmed a reverse click switch so my SingFire-75B would tailstand, put a piece of diffuser material between the reflector and the lens and pencil modded the NMM cap… It is my new go-to indoor light for after dark toilet trips.
The “firmware” for this flashlight has Next Mode Memory. Every time you turn it OFF it remembers what mode it was in, next time you turn it on it skips to the next mode, very annoying. It can be forced to quickly forget by tracing a pencil lead over the capacitor that holds charge to the IC.
I didn’t mod the switch boot, but the switch itself. I just cut enough off to clear the barrel(?). When that wasn’t enough to clear the switch boot, I put a ring of Venician Blind cord between the boot and the lip it sits on. Hope that helps!
Hi and welcome WARvault. You come from a nice area. I went to a school camp there around 1975. I guess things would have changed a little since then. Nice mod.
That’s why I prefer Biscotti driver… 3A regulated output and customizable interface.
Simon’s drivers became my first choice some months ago for any simple light (S2+, C8, any tail-click li-ion only light…)
Maybe you know then if the biscotti drivers that Simon sells at this moment have the corrected firmware? I have been waiting for a year now for confirmation of that.
Jos, do you have any info on what should be corrected?
I bought one driver with Biscotti from bg last year for an S2+, the UI is much better then the 3/5 mode and still regulated
The first batch of biscotti drivers had something wrong in the firmware (a ‘fuse setting’), making the PWM frequency twice too high, and also the timings of any events in the UI. Getting into program mode was difficult, and maybe the modes were affected too, can’t remember. Annoyingly, because superficially there seems nothing wrong, Simon kept selling those drivers and putting them in his lights. Even the desert tan S2+ that came out half a year later have (sometimes?) drivers with wrong firmware. He may even never corrected the firmware? I don’t know because it can’t be found on Simon’s site and no one ever took notice again. I just know that I really want a stash of biscotti drivers but only if it has the corrected firmware (I can not re-flash drivers).