1100 lumen 16340 klarus Mi1C Resistor Mod

This sounds a great mod. Any chance of getting the pics working?

Second this. Would love to see some photos of the mod.

+1 here! I haven’t been able to see moderator007 pictures on the last threads, presenting some mods :frowning:

Sorry guys I had no idea the pics were not working. I linked them thru google photos. They show up on my end, so it looks fine to me. :person_facepalming:
I’ll see if I can fix it, might need some help letting me know if the new pics work.

Can you see both pics now?

Second one only.

I just created a imgur account for hosting photos. I’m really upset about photobucket holding my older pics for ransom. Google photos seems to have problems sharing on forums from what I googled.
Does both pics show up now?

Yes, I can see both photos now. Thanks :smiley:

Thanks for letting me know ssschen. :+1:

do you have a comparison photo between the stock and the modded? Would be interesting to see.

I guess your referring to a beam shot pic. I dont have any at the moment but I have some Efest IMR 16340’s on the way that are rated for 5 to 7 amps continuous (depends on the seller). So I’ll wait until I have those to use. I have several of the top rated 16340 batteries from HKJ’s comparator but none work good at a 3 amp load, to much battery sag. Seems they haven’t really designed a high current 16340 yet that I could find. The driver I’m pretty sure has a low voltage step down, so when the battery sags below say 3v the driver steps down to high, thinking the battery is depleted but its not (to much voltage sag).

The best I found by description was the Efest IMR 700mah (red) or the Imren IMR 700mah (blue). They haven’t been tested by HKJ yet or anywhere else I could find, so I’m not sure what their going to do, but I do plan on testing the Efest 700’s when I receive them. I noticed they were popular with the vape sites, so that’s a good sign since that’s a high current device. I may buy some Imren’s to try also. Probably just the same battery given their both 700mah Imr’s.

I tested the Efest IMR16340 700mah(red) and there no better than the klarus LIR16340(red) or the fenix ARB L16-700. They all dive pretty quick in voltage at a 3amp load. I get around 300mah at about 6 minutes out of any of the 3 at a 3v cut-off. Trustfire seems to be about the best 16340 at the moment from HKJ’s testing, I got four on the slow boat to try next.

Nice Mod :+1:
The Yellow AWT 16340 cells are great, I’ve been using them for a while now whereas the red TF cells were good at first some failed quite fast at high draw. YMMV.

What is the resistor size?
EDIT:
Far smaller than 2512 that I have here :confused:
1206?

1206

This one CRX?

That’s them.

Ordered 3 to try out. :+1:

Interesting insight. Me and a friend recently hairdryer rewrapped a couple TrustFire IMR14500s and seems like the heat killed 'em. Quite disturbing.

Cheers :-)

Thanks.
I was careful unscrewing the plastic, but nevertheless I slipped and ripped some resistor and some other element.
It’s funny to see strobe running with moonlight level .

OK, will have to repair. But first another question:
Without split ring pliers, what’s the best way to unscrew the bezel?
I tried tweezzers, couldn’t do it. I tried friction, didn’t work either.
I can glue it to something and then polish the glue off but that’s quite a lot of work…