What did you mod today?

Thanks, it will be intersting to compare the current with stock Q8.

You can get your branding here:

The fablab in Amsterdam has a laser cutter / engraver.

You can label it e.g. djozz-fire :wink:

:laughing: Sofirn should have kept the flat bits on the battery tube for my djozzfire branding, I can use one of my old pictures for a logo:

I have done anything to my Q8 to get the resistance as low as possible. And i get on fresh charged VTC6 in the first seconds ~23-24A. Now i am waiting for a good use of the led4power Q8 board. But it still want to have a good efficiency on the low and mid modes. And warm high cri is prefered!
The new screws arrived today (very fast) but not real cheap (25 cent/pcs). Head is even a bit wider than expected. And grinding down 4 of these tiny things cost me more time than making a copper sheet for a flashlight by hand. Hope the 3 threadcutters arrive tomorrow. The holes in the flashlight are only 3,2mm deep. So to get as deep as possible i will have to grind the tipp off the M1,6 threadcutters.


Careful about grinding those taps, they’re hardened and can be quite brittle and you might find you break them in the light which is very frustrating…

Modded my Skilhunt H03 today with a Texas Avenger driver from Lexel.

Of course the first step was flashing Anduril to the driver. After that it was time to get the H03 apart and replace the board.

Separating the head from the tube was done easy by mounting the head in a vice with plastic soft jaws and grip the tube with a swedish nut lathe

As for soldering, the two thicker wires are for the LED while the smaller ones are for the Switch.

Thick white: LED-
Thick red:LED+
Thin white: GND
Thin red: Switch LED+
Thin black: Switch

The last task was shortening the battery tube by 0.4mm as the stock board measures 1.2mm while Lexel’s is 1.6mm thick. There was no problem and it seemed to be waterproof but that was just something I wanted to do.

Working on this monster a bit more today, sometimes I wonder what the fuck I’m doing.

:person_facepalming: :smiley:
Sometimes me too.

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language, watch the wording please, family forum and all that… such profanity is not allowed.

@DB Custom
My prefered Tool shop had a promotion. They sell HSS and HSSE 8% for the same price. HSSE is much harder (what i prefer usually) but this tiny cutters are brittle enough in HSS. If they break deep enough (in something like this Aluminium) it is over.
I only used the second and third cutter. The hole was a bit to wide for the first one. But i have taken enough material away. Now i have 4 nice threads :partying_face: . And the screws fit perfect!
Cleaned the holes with a syringe a 25ga needle and IPA. And because practise makes perfect i went for a new TIR backlight. 2x iceblue 2x pink. Grinded down the tube (to compensate for the bigger driver).
Added two 24AWG wire at the spring (noticeable bump in brightness and heat :smiling_imp: )
I played a bit with iso and WB on the pictures. I would say the last two ones are close to the real color. Not 100% but close. But it is more dimm in real. Now the backlight is more even. Especially with this Special TIR survace.





This is with the old Backlight. Not so smooth.

This is the new one. More uniform backlight.



And yesterday i did a little mod to my hadband. I removed the chinese plastic and wrapped the headband with super soft 1mm leather. Much more comfortable and much better if sweat is running down your forehead.

@scianiac
Your light is so absurd bright! :partying_face: :+1: :beer:

Yesterday I modded this >200 year old oak tree as part of Operation Saluting Branches I was one of only two climbers at the Dayton Ohio national cemetery (there were 3 bucket truck crews there working as well) but me, a recreational climber who does a few tree jobs a month as side work got there and got the biggest freaking tree! So awesome!

Half way done in this pic, finished before lunch and took on a whole area of trees needing dead wooded by the monument, inaccessible by machines after lunch.

Nice work CK! Must have been a real trip getting that selection!

I got my 21700 Sofirn C8 host today and built up an Anduril driver for it, installed 3 Samsung LH351D 80 CRI 5000K emitters on the MCPCB then sliced the domes off. :slight_smile: Having some switch issues but it looks like it’s gonna do around 3200 lumens on an iJoy 21700 3750mAh cell and the beam is pretty nice, decent hot spot with a nice tint. Rainy tonight but I haven’t forgotten I own a camera (or two…)

There should not be any difference between HSS and HSS with cobalt below 300 degrees C.

As far as i know the HSSE cutters are harder because of the cobalt (longer use of tool because less wear or you can cut harder materials). But like the cobalt drills they are more brittle. And from using both cutters i would confirm this. But i could be wrong.

Convoy S6 triple build
3x Nichia 219C 4000K
Carclo Narrow spot
Kiriba-Ru Copper pill
Dr. Jones H17Fx
Samsung 30Q

Clever bypass TheOnlyDocc!

@TheOnlyDocc, how did you actually managed to do this? This looks close to impossible since the heat from the soldering iron would travel to the other wire, and melt the solder joint.

You are quite skilled.

Simply clamp the first solder joint with stats, make your second joint. :wink:

I got 10 Osram Oslon Black Flats today, put the first one in a modified Emisar 1DS with Anduril, replaced the 18ga wires already in the light with 22ga leads. I SHOULD have re-flowed a copper disc under the MCPCB first to raise it up some, but did not. So I’m slightly back on focus point. Still, hitting 4.62A for 890 lumens at ~300Kcd. Pretty cool little emitter!

Thanks! Regarding the soldering. Practice makes perfect! :smiley: But seriously, there are more much more skilled people here on BLF. But it helps to have a powerfull iron and the right flux/solder combination!
Wanted to build something instead of using this spring (cutting away a part inside the tailcap and fitting a strip of copper with a regular spring soldert to it). But i lost most of my electrical tools during a water damage. So modding the original spring in some way was the next best option.

e1000 nice combination! Like the S6 and the tripple looks nice in it.

Finished my BLF GT yesterday.
Stock driver and Lexel XHP35HI (my LED had only 3 working Dies)
Wavien Collar
Fresnel Lens
GITD Tape in the Reflektor Housing.

Not yet checked the Lux. I will do my Report on TLF, and perhaps link it here.