What did you mod today?

Very cool. Not too many headlamp mods happening, it seems. Easy to take apart? Is the driver just pressed in? Was it glued? Is that one of the new lighted boards from MtnE?

I made today a programming key for Astrolux FT03.

The sanded down 22mm TA driver is pressed in (stock driver PCB was glued but threads wernt). Overall pretty easy to mod.

The switch board is my own design, it’s 10.3mm. BTW oshpark sticker 0x19 is the best one I’ve ever seen! This is V2, originally V1 had 4 led’s and a leadless switch from sparkfun but it turned out to be super weak and I think the reflow heat was causing them to fail prematurely, I went through all 5 switches I had, each would last a few days after being soldered on. Dumped the leadless switch for this more common one, deleted 2 LED’s and moved the resistor to the back and these boards are G2G.

Next on my bench is my ArmyTek tiara C1, gonna give it the same treatment (hopefully light shines through its yellow boot).

FW3A - emitter and optic swap. Beam is pretty similar to the original beam, but maybe tiny bit tighter and has a slightly warmer tint.

  • Emitters: XPL HI: two 3D and one 5D.
  • Optic: polished the frosting off 10511 optic using jeweler’s rouge and a soft cloth.

Doesn’t it have a starburst spill?

A little bit. I haven’t checked to see if it’s any more than the frosted 10511 though. Any petals in the spill are still far less than with 10507 optic.

Astrulux FT03 firmware replacement to Andúril:

very cool. Awesome work!

Hey ZozzV6

can you please do a tutorial video how to flash firmware ? your video skill is good and there is none good tutorial on youtube :slight_smile:

Actually that was it :slight_smile: Other things you need to make before flashing is written well in this thread.

And did you modify the code to let the lightning storm mode hit 100% brightness? :smiling_imp:

Nope. I don’t use that very often.

Some brass tube & stuff.

Cut a bit of spare MDF, put leather on it, then loaded the strop with red compound (sold as 1K grit on AliExpress).
This is a compact strop for smaller knives and more for on-to-go use in a backpack.
Need to heat up the compound more to make the wax sticky.

This is also the first time I used Shoe Goo as the binding agent between leather and MDF, it is superior to the glues I have tried before!

Soldered up and programmed a new “smart” tailcap today; this one is for 14500 lights. Swapped out a friend’s Booster Tail for this one since he always uses his Sofirn SF14 with li-ions (with AA/NiMH the flashlight will still work of course, just not the tailcap now). It has 6 LEDs and uses them to display battery status.

First battery in the video was at 4.07 V, the second was at 3.55 V.

saved today myself 800€ getting an Upgrade Hack on my Power supplies

Those smart tailcaps are fun :+1:

Did another Q8 bypass today. I always like how these turn out since there is a nice hole to feed the wire through and solder from the back. They have really good flexibility this way and just look nice and clean.

A fuel gauge with no more counting blinkies. Nice :+1: This has got to be the next “it” tailcap mod.

Convoy T2: XP-G3 5000K with BLF A6 Driver, doing 1150 Lumen at start.

old Long Range Tactical (from Banggood) with XHP50.2 5000K and F6 5A, doing 2000 Lumen.