What did you mod today?

I have one in a Skilhunt H02 with a Lexel build TA driver with NarsilM, one in a Eagle Eye X7 I bought from a friendly modder here on BLF :wink: , a triple UniqueFire UF-1408 with a MTN-22DDm driver, and when led4power puts the new Q8 MCPCB up for sale I will put some in a Q8.

Oh and they are a really good option in Olight S baton series behind their unique TIR (which doesn’t like 3535 LED at all…)
I put some in my S2, S2R, S1R, S1A…

Got a red sofirn SP10B today for my daughter, real nice light for the 10 dollars with a great moonlight mode. Put a 4000k 219c in it and also in my D25c ti.

Put some LH351D’s in some lights.
The first one was my Emisar D1… and the LED didn’t like the Turbo mode AT ALL… it turned blue :frowning:
Maybe my reflowing wasn’t really well done…

Fortunately, the other three are in more reasonable configurations :

From left to right : S2+ Biscotti 8*7135, Utorch UT01, Lumintop Tool AA Biscotti 5*7135
The far right is my T10 with 219B

I really like the tint and CRI of these little gems… I have to buy more when they’re available

:heart_eyes:

@X3, yep that is was probably happened. Bad reflow job. The LH351D is a bit tougher of an LED compared to the XPL HI, so should not have turned blue.

I have the same experience with the single LH351D no matter how careful I reflow they turn blue. The four I reflowed and put in my D4 didn’t change color.

Do you use Lexel’s suggest about 1°/sec temperature raise speed?

I use a hot air reflow gun slowly raising the temperature, if it 1°/sec I don’t know :slight_smile:

Maybe I am not careful enough, but I don’t have the same issue with other emitters.

Thats simple, if it takes near 200 sec it is ok, if less than two minutes this is too fast.
Not only about samsung, we heard many issues with xhp 50.2 for same reason.

Is it proven that the XHP50.2 issues are caused by not following the correct reflow timings? I did not know that. I even have not seen any evidence of not following the correct reflow timing having an effect on any led performance. I’m not saying that there is no effect, but at least I have never seen it demonstrated.

I have a XHP50.2 dying in a flashlight with a Kaidomain 3A boost driver, and I have a XHP50.2 living a happy life at 5+ amps in a driver-less 2x18650 flashlight. Both leds were reflowed by me at the correct temperature but nowhere near the correct timing. Instead of a reflow effect, my feeling is that that KD driver causes some sort of peaks that especially the XHP50.2 is sensitive to, while in direct drive there is no such sudden load. But it is just a feeling based on just two leds, I have no hard evidence.

I cant make any long-time conclutions, I just dont have enought equipment for tests. I would prefer to ask maukka and Lexel.

Received the uni-t ut210e clampmeter couple days ago.
Measured the tailcap current again today. Used a 22 gauge silicon wire, it was probably a little bit too long though.

Measured 7 amps, that makes more sense. Still a little bit on the lower side but for that I blame the cell I used and the longer wire.

I use 12Ga Turnigy wire for my loop with the Uni-T clamp meter. I think it’s 6” long, soldered gold plated banana clips on each end.

I use this, before use everytime I sand the contact surfaces:

Glutton for punishment! :stuck_out_tongue:

A little late to the party but I had a threesome and put my D’s all over the place:




Samsung LH351D’s of course, 4000K 90CRI.

Jaxman E2L (left)
FET+N+1 Bistro HD
~3300lm at startup

Thorfire TK15 (right)
SMO reflector gives the 351D a little bit of a hotspot and no more egg yolk from XPL2. Still some slight rings like any SMO but the tint is even.
Side note: Thorfire must be using some of the highest melting point solder on the planet…

Ultratac K18 Mini (top)
Pulled the XPG2 out of this 10180 light
Makes ~12lm on low and ~125lm on high
It’s no CRX light but I really like this light now. It has TWO ways I can lock it out, mechanical and eswitch and a really nice floody beam. I’m going to remove the Manker LAD from my keychain now and see how this holds up. I’ll trade the lower output for not having my pants randomly lighting up.

Contactcr’s wife…. ” He was so happy to see me when I got home from work he positively GLOWED!” :smiley:

To check out the new 4040+5050 Q8 ledboard that led4power has made and kindly sent to me without charge (including 4 Luxeon V leds :+1: ), I modded my last unmodded Q8 with Luxeon V leds.

The dimensions of the l4p Q8 board are exactly the same of the stock board so it was no surprise that it fitted without problem. Only difference is that with the double footprint there is no space for the two small holes on the side, so the board can not be screwed down by the two M2.5 screws. Instead the board should be fixed like I did here, sandwiched between reflector and shelf (as shown and discussed before in the interest list thread for this board).

It was quite a pain to ream all 4 plastic centerpieces to fit the Luxeon V leds, but I got it done and the leds are centered pretty good.

I made an effort to reduce the already small resistances of the Q8 further, most significantly I bypassed the tail springs and cleaned all electrical contact surfaces. I replaced the stock ledwires with slightly longer ones (still 18 AWG).

The beam that I get is very nice and smooth without obvious tint shifts, I think even a bit nicer than the stock beam, but I have no stock Q8 left to directly compare them. (If you are really nitpicking, on a white wall the corona is slightly yellow and around the corona is a faint blueish ring. This however is very remote from anything you will notice in actual use)

The highest output with the stock XP-L leds that I measured was 6200 (djozz-) lumen. But that was not with fully bypassed springs but with phosfor bronze springs, I estimate 6500 lumen with bypassed springs. This Luxeon V modded Q8 does 7500 lumen (30 seconds, 30Q batteries). At start-up it is 8000 lumen and it takes minutes to get under 7000 lumen.

7500 lumen, great beam profile, nice tint: this mod is a succes, and the l4p Q8 board works as planned. :slight_smile:

Nice mod djozz and a nice improvement in output to boot. :+1: