What did you mod today?

I've been using this dual LED headlamp for a while now: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/XM-L2-Mini-Head-Lamp-Outdoor-White-Light-Headlamp.

I swapped the LED's to XM-L2 3D's for now, might be tuff to swap to decent MCPCB's, but cant get access to the driver yet - probably glued. This is a really decent cheap headlamp. The UI is not bad at all for my use, and it's light weight though the headstrap is a pain because it keeps loosening up, but better headstraps should work with it.

What driver and other changes did you make? I have a larger 6.5” model sitting here to mod

Those seem popular here and decent build quality especially considering the price. Nicron headlamps also seem to be nice candidates for headlamp host. I have their more expensive H30 which I modded. Its well built and stock output is good but UI is horrible (cycle to off). Modded mine to fet+1 and LH351D and it’s a nice throwy heeadlamp (21Kcd at turbo). Could increase throw with xpl-hi or sst-20s or White flat. I broke the driver though because of too much tinkering so now its sitting on my work bench.

Post #7000!

(at the moment)

I just made the new face plate to hold the Carclo optics, I believe 10048? Have to check my DigiKey receipts. The beamshot was hardwired into a 5200mAh 3s LiPo running the two XHP35s in parallel so a little over-driven, but I probably could run all 4 with it. Because the optic holder and MCPCB stick out past the original lens height I had to make a face plate with an integrated bezel for each TIR. I decided since I had only 1/2” stuff to make the bezel taller to add to the “projector” effect.

Haven’t decided on a driver yet, since I want to make sure I get one compatible for automotive use. But I want to incorporate either modes or ramping of some sort.

Look here: Q8 modding - #1556 by Wieselflinkpro

Received my black S2+ host and immediately proceeded to give it a bit of heat treatment before transplanting my Luxeon V triple into it. Makes the little hot rod look a bit more gnarly and hot rod-like!

D-C fix should have like 5-10% loss shouldnt it? Sphere never seems to react well when light is diffused at lens

That is worrying since the whole point of a sphere is integration.

I modded an old glass door knob & old pipe into a light .

I assume your setup is probably a bit more refined since you also do bare LEDs. Do you have a regulated light you can try with and without D-C Fix?

I do not own DC-fix. The method I use is frosting the glass with sand paper. But that would not measure the right thing I suppose.

RW, that’s amazing! Nice work! Love it when parts at hand are put to good use. :slight_smile:

Thanks , it was a learning experience . Hopefully the next thing will be a little better , I mean my efforts .

Today I have modified Skilhunt H03. Another with the rest. Previously I changed the diode on XP-L HI, now I changed the driver. The choice fell on Emisar (D1). I like the results very much. I have a ramp and a lot of power.

EagleEye X6

4x Luxeon V

Ledil Angie optic

MTN-17DDm

LED4Power spacer + mcpcb


Parts (with the giant hole I drilled in X6 shelf)

Spacer bolt (hollow for wires)

Spacer top side (bolted down)

Originally had everything wired up for a LD-B4 driver but I had issues and abandoned it. Here I demonstrate the art of wire stretchers to keep your mcpcb off your thermal paste while you solder your connections :slight_smile:

Abort, bypass this FET and lets go with what we have that works

Moon. Too bright w/ Luxeon V’s

I used two O rings cause i’m not sure the bezel applies enough pressure otherwise. I may try it with one and test heat transfer or try to find thicker glass.

That must have impressive output contactcr! :+1:

Nice mod komeko, did you request the D1 driver from Hank?

Yes, Hank turned out so nice that one of them sold me :slight_smile:

This is a very interesting mod Komeko. Can you comment any more on how you did it? Was it an easy driver swap?

Well, the tube is glued, so I used heavy tools. The driver was a bit too big so I polished it a bit. The diode is XP-LHI 3A. MX4 paste. Of course, I set the thermal protection to over 70 degrees Celsius. The turbo withstands 90 seconds which I consider to be a great result, after which it gently goes down. The temperature after 6 minutes is 76 degrees, hot, but it does not bother me. I have the same set of Emisara D4.