I’d love to hear what are your thoughts on them by putting them in a real light, as springs behave differently when connected to a cell rather than a constant current load.
Yeah, I am not sure what light to put them in, I have a new to me MT09R here that I might try them in, although I think I would double up on that light with the small springs as well, so I might wait for them. Otherwise I don’t have any un-modded lights here to put them in lol. I have not ordered a flashlight in almost a year. Just the prototypes I have been sent during testing.
Is it worth the time to replace all the springs in my existing lights with these new springs? Including the bypassed springs that I have? Or should I just save them for new lights? I’m curious as to what people think and are planning to do with their springs.
In my case the lights that are working properly will not gain anything with these springs since they already have bypasses, so there is simply no reason to pull them apart and swap them out.
Now going forward I will most likely swap these springs onto any new lights I built or during any repairs.
I tend to follow the if it ain’t broke and it will not gain anything, then don’t fix it mantra.
Yeah. Personally, I would only replace stock springs with bypasses if I either had two lights to compare light output between bypassed and high conductivity springs.
Or a light with a replaceable tailcap. Like the Q8.
However, I like these springs way better than any spring I’ve ever had my hands on. Not solely because they have very high conductivity for springs, but mostly because they are so easy to solder to compared to non copper alloy springs.
Trying to do bypasses on steel springs, is let’s just say, mind nerving and very annoying to do, since the chromium surface and steel itself form oxides and don’t adhere to tin well, if at all without flux.
Hmm, I was thinking and I have 2 MT09R’s here. So I could have a direct comparison between 5x bypasses vs 5x of these springs in the same light. If I have some time next week I will try to do that.
That would be great! I adhere to the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” philosophy but that BLF modder in me can’t leave things alone if I know that the springs will yield me some more light (but I’m lazy enough that it has to be enough light to make it worthwhile).
We won’t know until somebody tries it.
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Update: I hope you know TA I was only kidding, I wouldn’t want you to weld your new springs
to the bottom of some perfectly good batteries.
BlueSwordM, Would it be possible to order a batch of springs like this that will fit the switch tower of a maglite?
I would pay for the 2k batch. The dimensions of the spring are
L: 32.76mm
OD: 8.15mm
ID: 6.45
Thickness: 0.83mm
The most critical dimension there is the OD since there are metal caps that go over each end we cant go larger. Any of the others could be adjusted a bit as needed.