Built a PD68 tripledown board. Still a bench project but I do have one in a light but it is just pressfit and not soldered in yet. It runs Bistro-HD right now. Still yet to settle on mode groups and actually build them out.
I’m not quite ready to make permanent modifications to this light for Mrs. manithree, so I made a drop-in replacement for the incandescent bulb using a high CRI Yuji strawhat, a brass washer, and some copper wire.
I was hoping to get the emitter just a little further forward than it ended up. So it’s a doughnut. And it’s significantly less bright than the incandescent which had a slightly worse beam pattern.
I have a couple of eneloop AAs in C sleeves to run it. A flashlight that old that has never had an alkine leak in it should be kept that way, IMO.
But, yeah, it’s not very bright, so I expect battery life won’t be a problem.
Ok, so y’all know by now that the right cell can make a big difference, right? I mean, you go to a lot of trouble modding a light you want to use the cell that’s going to show it off, sure ya do!
So, I got the new Samsung’s in my Meteor and made some tweaks, with Samsung 30Q’s it was making like 17,528 lumens, right? But how can that be enough? I mean, the math said there was more to found so I ordered some of the new (to me anyway) Samsung 25S 18650’s. Supposed to be directly comparable to the Sony VTC5A and 5D cells.
Got solder blobs on 4 out of 8, got em charged up, stuck em in the Meteor and fired that bad boy up! AND….
Tonight I converted my TK45 to be able to swap back and forth between the 4/8 AA carrier and a 26650.
I previously installed a 7135 based driver so input voltage was already in the 3-5v range. The carrier had been modified at that time to give 4s NiMH voltage (stock the light was 8S AA) and it could deliver that~4v even if only half loaded with 4 AA as long as I used the correct slots. The 26650 also gives a 105g weight advantage over the same capacity of NIMH (8 NiMH arranged 2p4s giving a capacity of ~4.0Ah + carrier = 275g, 26650 @ ~4.0Ah & adapter parts = 170g)