What did you mod today?

Love the collaboration with members here pc_light. Nice work. :+1:

At about half the output with the 219b, looks like the LH351D dedomed would indeed be a good option for this light. Do you think you will swap one in to replace the 219b in your H53fw?

That’s freaking awesome pc-light

Thanks but gChart did the heavy lifting.

FWIW, here’s a trick I used for this mod that has helped with similar mods involving complicated wire paths. I wrapped a piece of shrink tubing around the LED lead wire ends before pulling the electronics module out to solder.

The tubing gives me enough slack to work on the driver and I can simply pull the lead wires back through afterwards without having to thread inside the tube.

Love it, pc_light and gChart what you guys did!! These are one of the best regular priced deal lights around, for these 2 styles of headlamps! I got one of each now, 2 headlamps for like $26 total shipped, and they are moddable, very lightweight so very practical, and of course e-switch so we can run our best firmware. All around a true moddable winner! I really have to control myself from ordering a case of these things, of course knowing that's a lot of mod'n... But actually, your mod of a MCU replacement is about as easy as it gets, as long as you have the capability to reflow an SMD.

Ohh, not to mention you retain the stock USB charging....

This is where I bought mine from: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/XM-L2-Mini-Head-Lamp

$12 for the single LED, $14 for the double LED.

Thanks guys. And that’s a great tip, Pc_light - wish I would have thought of that!

Arrow finally got 8000 of these ’412s in stock… but of course with an MOQ of 4000 :person_facepalming:

Does this count


Probably not, doesn’t look like you’ve modded anything :wink:

Well i dont touch the factory parts just make new ones to add to it

You... I like you.

Gotta go buy heat shrink tube...

Replaced the XPL HI 5D I had in my modded Sipik 58 with LED Lenser style optic with an Oslon flat from International Outdoors.

The FET driver proved to be too much for the emitter to handle even when powered by just by an ICR 14500. Ended up swapping out the Oslon and replacing it with an SST20 4000K 95 CRI. Definitely better than the Oslon, but not sure if it’s any better than the XPL HI.

The higher binned SST-20's, like the 5000K or 6500K, should do better than a XPL HI V2 but don't think the 95 CRI's will. Haven't seen direct evidence of this, but the #'s Hank has on his Emisar web page listings show some of this, given the optics/power setup.

Soooo beamshot ? kCd ? :innocent:

Well, the SST-20s do have 30% more candela/lumen compared to the XP-L HI.

Meaning:
SST-20 65CRI = Tighter and more intense hotspot compared to the XP-L HI, meaning you get more throw.
SST-20 95CRI = Tighter, but less intense hotspot, meaning you will get about the same throw as the XP-L HI.

I dont have anything to measure output and it got light before i could get beam shot. Tonight will take some beam shots.

Looks pretty darn good to me! Will be looking for those beamshots… :wink:

Hey :sunglasses: nothing fancy for me just pulled the Osram from my new Tool and popped a N219B behind the TIR.
And the Osram made its way into a single mode loaner light :innocent:

I managed to open my Sofirn SP36, as written in the SP36-Thread

I used a bended nail and the driver popped out after the first hammering.

More pictures

Teaser Picture:

“:Sofirn SP36 - "BLF Q8 Mini" | Taschenlampen Forum

At the risk of offending any copper purists out there - I plated my BLF Edition A01 Copper with silver.

For no particular reason other than to see how a silver patina would eventually look :sunglasses:

Ohhhh pretty. I love the soft shine of silver.