It looks like you have parts, many many many parts.
I havenāt modded anything lately because Iām making tools. Solder paste stencils, to be specific.
I dragged out our little used vinyl cutter (Silhouette Cameo 2), found some useful open source software called gerber2graphtec and did some test cuts for Lexelās variant of TAās 17mm driver on some heavy, scrap vellum. When that looked good, I ordered some 4mil mylar sheets. The sheets arrived yesterday and I cut stencils for 3 different sizes of the driver. Iāll give them a trial run tonight.
Iām also planning to use it to make a stencil to apply solder mask to copper discs to aid in the precise positioning of 10mm sinkpads in order to create custom triples and quads.
Hey, just talk to that lady in California who almost got killed by those thousands of African-American bees that swarmed her. Bet she wishes sheād bought propane-tanks filled with Raid to exterminate them all.
And I know someone who got swarmed by YJs while pulling up weeds; they built nests in the ground.
Nice Yoikiamy! That is my favorite build of all time!
I have two Eagle Eye X6 hosts en-route and I have the new Samsung LH351D emitters just waiting for the hosts to get here.
Kudoās to Jos on the help, good work the both of yāas.
Had to do some light machining on a KD reflector to fit a 2D Maglite this afternoon. With the thermometer stuck on 110Āŗ at the lathe I made every effort to keep it short lived, fitted the KD reflector to allow the bezel to screw all the way down on the head, flipped it and opened up the emitter hole for the pillar style emitter mount of the heat sink that is in the top end of the big tube. So, next Iāll have to chop the tube as I now have a spacer in it, may as well have it shorter so it fits the hand better.
A guy can lose weight working on the lathe in these conditions!
Itās also fun to put a short tube on it with a quality 18350 cell,
Edit: A comparison, on the left the Kronos BLF Special Edition with a de-glassed SBT-70, on the right a baked Eagle Eye X6 with SST-40 and Lee filter to correct the color to white, in the middle a shorty with trit vials in the optic legs and 4 additional trits in the head itself, only the end of the trit showing. The shorty is a triple with a polished face CUTE-3 optic.
Also have a new mfr. X6 on the way for a look, it is factory made as a triple.
Seems weird, seeing a factory triple X6 coming out after all this timeā¦ I started the triples what seems like forever ago and still have that first one, built on the sample that got tossed out the window of our Ford Escape.
Donāt even know how many Iāve built, I have 12 now with 2 on the way (again) and the new mfr triple will make 15. Iāve tried to build em all different somehow, from XHP-70 to SBT-70, triple XP-L HI to triple Nichia, always tried to keep them each as different as possible. Getting more difficult to do. lol
My cousin flies his Cessna with one I gave him, even the UPS delivery guy has one I built! My favorite light, so versatile and extremely tough but inexpensive for all that.
The first Eagle Eye X6 triple, November 2, 2014. Showing road damage from the toughness testing before it got built as a triple.
The first one I didnāt drill out the center pad in the 32mm Noctigon, found it difficult to keep the wires intact when tightening the bezel. Made the change and have built dozens and dozens since then! Nitro had sinks made, Kiraba Ru has had I donāt know how many made, theyāre out there en masse now, a fantastic little light that really gets the job done.
Wait, Eagle Eye is going to be selling an X6 triple? Will they be selling the hosts?
I bought two X6 hosts recently. One now has a 219C 9050 and a Lexel variant TA driver. Iāve been debating what to do what the second. I have most of what I need for a triple, but if there is going to be a factory triple, Iām going to save it for something else.
I didnāt say Eagle Eye was making it, I said a new mfr. for the X6ā¦ someone that hasnāt made the X6 before. (well, I guess itās more complicated than that, but theyāre not known for making one at any rate)
Got back from vacation today and had a mailbox full of light parts so I got to relax this evening at the work bench! Got to stick my first XP-L HI in an old BLF-SE X6 with a Banggood A6 driver, that all went smooth but then I ran into some real problems with an S41 buildā¦
Specs for S41:
Factory MCPCB but with 2 of the D280ās swapped for D240ās.
RMM / mtnelectronocs 17mm fet+7135 driver.
Bistro FW.
Fully bypassed head / tail.
When put together it had 18AWG, the MCPCB was soldered to head and driver was soldered to retaining ring but after I had to open it back up 12837 times that got old right quick.
Currently sporting MCPCB screws (with isolator rings for short protection), 22AWG LED wire and just a good clean surface on the mating face of the retaining ring.
So hereās my issue (feel free to skip description and watch the ~90sec video as it contains the same explication). Do note in the video I say ā28AWGā HOWEVER itās actually 22AWG,same as the LED wires, just white, exact same wire however.
Light functions and steps forward and reverse in normal modes as it should. All config options work. The 35E I was running was @ 4.0v and turbo was pulling 6.6A, you can step backwards threw normal modes and from moon to hidden turbo.
At that point the issue manifests: if you try to step back from hidden mode 1 (turbo) to hidden mode 2 (tactical strobe or w/e it is) it gives a single bright flash then goes to moon. I donāt actually care about the strobe, itās batt check (hidden mode 3) Iām after.