Yeah, I don’t see them offering a better reflector, they had enough trouble getting this quality. The reflector itself is actually fine, the only issue is the coating process and it is quite difficult to get reflectors this large coated perfectly. Better sanding would really not help much.
With the right rigid work and tool support, chip evacuation, coolant/lubricity, speeds/feeds/ tool geometry negative/positive/zero and tool tip radius PCD is the way to go to obtain Micro Finish Surfaces with alloy’s. Most don’t even hone cylinders/crank/cam bores any more, they are Micro Sized and Finished with Diamond PCD runners and plain (within a certain lubricity) coolant. Aluminum cam caps on Overhead cam heads single point PCD boring (semi finish) with micro finish carbide,diamond encrusted runners (mirror finish) (Mapal) brand name we use. No more Stones and Honing oil.
All for naught if you cant prep the surface and apply the coatings correctly……
Opening the head is a matter of brute force unscrewing it from the switch area. No tricks to it, just brute force.
I would not cound on a manual for the conversion kit, they are hesitant enough about even offering them for sale and would love any excuse to not sell them.
Far as the level of knowlage needed, this is one of those cases where if you have to ask, you might not want to attempt it.
A basic rundown is:
remove driver retaining ring
Remove switch retaining ring
Remove head/reflectore
desolder the LED wires from the driver or mcpcb
remove the driver and mcpcb
reverse the process.
The hardest part is opening the light followed by soldering to the mcpcb. This can be quite difficult if you do not have a good and very hot iron.
I plan to bypass all of the springs, but I’m wondering if it’s advisable to wire/braid bypass at least the main contact spring when doing the mod kit upgrade?
Bypassing all the springs it is unknown how the LED will handle that. It is possible it could be over-driven then. I would not recommend it.
I am not sure what you mean by the main contact spring? Talking about the “button top” spring on the carriers? Yes, if you were to only bypass 1 spring that would be the one to bypass.
Yep, his light is very close to the final production version minus the exact LED spec.
Although keep in mind that the readings done like this are lower since some of the light escapes around the edges. I measured this exact light on my sphere using an L6 reflector so that I would capture all of the light and the numbers were about 10% higher.
Yes sir. I may not get the best accurate reading… my light tube is a little bit too small… this light is definitely the best xhp70.2 without spending $600-$700.
This blf gt is a perfect host for the single xhp70.2. You will get plenty of runtime and excellent heatsink…