What did you mod today?

If you want to see the signal (and don’t need to be illuminated) you need much less intensity. But to shine through the buildings…you need much more.

A gamma-thrower! Where did I put my cobalt-60 and the electromagnetic gamma-lenses?

Tonight: damaged two optisolis LEDs and a Samsung.

This is my kind of WDYMT post. Sheared domes, bad re-flows, shorting wires. Keep up the mediocre work it makes the average modder like myself feel better sometimes after seeing 10 posts in a row of flawless carbon fiber wraps, custom lathe/mill projects, hand carved pills/centering rings.

We just don’t usually post our f-ups :smiley:

@CRX, how true

I admit, we all mess up sometimes.
A couple of weeks ago i messed up a reflector

Yesterday, like two hours and six or seven attempts to swap an emitter in an AAA sized light that should have taken ten minutes.
Yep this puppy had just about it all that contactr mentioned…
I was almost at the stage where I was thinking the greenish tint wasn’t so bad after all and I should’ve just left it be :smiley:
Swapped out a Luxeon v2 for a Nichia 219C.

Oh gosh, I just mean visible cloud-bounces. Like the bat-signal. At 11km you're starting to get into earth curvature issues for straight line... And probably finding whatever the laser version of BLF is. I don't try to find it because I'd end up with blind for sure

People should post more in the “What did you break today” thread… I like that one :slight_smile:

I’d be here all day if I was to post all my breakages up. :person_facepalming:

Yep, me too, just yesterday tried to build a lighted tail, there’s 6 0603 leds on it but I spent 11 leds (some projectiled on the floor and never found back) before I found there was a short somewhere in the Oshpark board that I could not fix. So I will start all over again with a new board, and probably another 10+ leds before it is finished. :weary:

Oh ya just gotta love a bad board! (Not!)

Oh, and I forgot to say that because there was a short to ground it also blew the tail switch :person_facepalming:
This wee bugger :smiley:

I think the "what did you break today" thread is super important for newer modders to see, especially if people like CRX, djozz, MRsDNF post there. When they bust something, it helps them feel better that these well-known modders break stuff too.

Does this count as breaking something?

One of these days, Hank is going to get sick of my silly requests. But for now, he’s still indulging my flights of fancy.

For reference, I asked if he could do this, using all four of his SST-20 tints. And to my surprise, he didn’t say no.

Changed the LEDs in my Sofirn SP36 to XP-L2 4000K 90CRI with perfect color rendering.

Lumenmeasurement with Sony VTC6 at startup:

- Before: 6350 Lumen

- bridged springs with AWG20: 6950 Lumen

  • new XP-L2’s: 5950 Lumen




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I managed to get a picture of my bare XHP50.2 while it was on. This involved shining it through a slide projector lens onto a big sheet of paper, and taking a picture of the projected image.

When I take a picture of it directly, with the LED off, it looks like this. There’s also another flashlight shining into the reflector to illuminate things better.

If I use only overhead light, it’s less colorful… just some green shining in from a nearby Kermit-green wall.

I actually was looking for that thread and couldn’t find exact keyword to search the link.
Will bookmark the link instead for future reference :person_facepalming:

From the dedicated XHP50.2 3V thread :

I opened my D1, to try a slice & dice on my 3V XHP50.2…
But as soon as I desoldered the LED wires, I saw that the dome was slightly lifted :weary:
I think I damaged it when I removed the “butterfly” centering gasket that I used.

Now I have a UV/blue thrower that heats stupidly fast…
I measured 19A at start !

^ a blue thrower, very useful too.