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Flashlight Modding and DIY Parts
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Got my Astrolux S43 today and of course, it needs to have Anduril!

The bezel can be removed by hand, the MCPCB is held down by 2 screws and after desoldering the MCPCB can be removed.

While I am no subscriber to the motto "the bigger the gob, the better the job" I think we all can agree that this amount may be not really enough.

Removing the button was easy with a pair of tweezers

And now, the whole stack of PCBs can be pushed out.

It is worth noting, that you need to push straight because otherwise the PCB will wedge itself in the threads of the head.

After that, flashing is pretty hard as you cannot use a clip or pogo pins.

But you can use a modified clip to get inbetween the sandwiched PCBs.

My verdict after having the light apart:

  • Not mod friendly
  • Hard do disassemble / reassemble as the PCB likes to get stuck
  • Flimsy switch wires which like to simply snap off
  • Could use more thermal paste
  • (Anduril currently needs workaround so this light can use the 1x7135 channel)
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Cree XD16, on VirEnce N119 mcpcb on a Kronos X5.

This emitter was my test led and got slightly burned on the edges of the phosphorus during some max power tests, that’s what the odd color is in the reflection of the die. Even as such it still performs well as well as expected (i.e. nothing to write home about but it’s still cool as hell)

XP-L HI (stock) 29,690kcd
damaged XD16 5700cri 25,700kcd.

I have 2 more 5000k 70cri emitters to play with too.

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NovaTac 120T - Triple Nichia 219C 5000K - H17Fx - 18350 - Rv Clicky Sw - 2300lm.

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Another awesome mod CRX

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Love the triples on small body lights :slight_smile: Awesome mod CRX !

Btw , is there any place to get these Novatac lights at a decent price ? Thanks !

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Thanks :+1:
jon_slider is the NovaTac man :wink:

6119

I installed OSRAM KW CSLNM1.TG in SP32A V2.0:

Throw is comparable with C8. Here is the picture with Convoy C8 with CREE XP-L HI V2 5D at 2.7A, SP32A with OSRAM KW CSLNM1.TG at 3A and stock Acebeam EC35 at 3.3A. Around 2.5 metres to a wall:


More details in this post.

6120

Reflowed some more XD16’s onto VR16S1 boards. Man those 1616 LED’s are tiny!!!

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UltraFire UF-10 OSRAM KW CSLNM1.TG - DD - 16500 - Rv Clicky Lighted Sw - 640/ 250lm.OSRAM KW CSLNM1.TG 6N 15:
Max – 640lm/ 250lm - 4.5A
60000cd/ Throw 490m

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^ Nice. Those are very good numbers CRX in a still very attractive host :+1: .

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Thanks. Yeah this light has had more emitter swaps than any other light I’ve ever had, couldn’t resist the new Osram for it :slight_smile:

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CRX,

I like your zoomie mod very much.

60 kcd for such a small host is just superb. At 2007/2008 only super throwers with Cree XR- E EZ900 R2 had such performance in 5-10x larger hosts :+1:

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Yeah one of my first lights was a wee sipik zoomie with an XR-E emitter, amazing throw from such a small light.

The UF-10 is direct drive so that's start up numbers of course, it's all down hill from there... :D
I might install a driver in this at some point, again.
So much bright light pollution around here, not much fun.

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Batman call in third pic? :slight_smile:

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:smiley:

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Wow that batman sign is awesome! Did you just stick a piece of paper over the lens?

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No I just pasted that in there :innocent:

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CRX always keeping us on our feet! :beer:

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Would a Batman mask over the de-domed die yield a Batman beam profile? Should, shouldn’t it? I mean, the aspheric shows a mirror image of the square die so if the die were masked to show only a Batman logo then the aspheric should show that logo in light, only the illuminated Batman just like in the show. Right?

This is how an aperture works in a camera, I can cut out a small Batman and place the cover over the lens effectively making the Batman the aperture, then the Bokeh effect of all lights in the background will be Batman. Like, with a Christmas Tree in the background and I take a soft portrait, all the lights would look like Batman. I’ve done this before with various figures, even a Yorkshire Terrier for an old couple that really loved their dog!

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Some PCBs arrived, so now it was time for step 2 of my Nichia Optisolis Ultra-CRI build in an Emisar D4 host.

So here is my own driver. Anduril, 3+1 Channels, 1+2+5 7135 and a seperate resistor moon mode.
It seems like 10k is a good series resistance for moon.

All in all, it works great and there have been no real problems with the PCB design.

The only problem was, that the footprint for the schottky diode was a bit to small for the diodes I had at hand, so I had to bend the legs a bit to get it to fit.
Please excuse the bad SMD soldering as it was done by hand and not with hot air.