FW3A mod thread. Post yours!

In the centre picture, top right is 50/50 green & blue.
In the right hand picture, bottom left is 50/50 green & blue.
Hard to see a difference as there isn’t much but it’s there.
Got Red & Orange glow powder on the way.
No comparison pics in lights, might be some soon.

and these are the powder in a clear base resin?

Yes.

Do you have to solder your wires really flat or does it not really matter? For example, is there plenty of room and will it noticeably look tilted?

I’ll probably grab an orange off you if it turns out nice. That’s what I used for my drilled optics, 3x orange trits

in that case I’ll take one of the 50/50,
any plans for a “swirl” version with green/red or blue/orange?

The wires need to be flat, the gaskets should be comfortable up to 20AWG but can be modified for thicker wires.
You can sand them down or enlarge the optic holes.

A swirl pattern wouldn’t really be possible due to the way they are made but a splodge pattern might work :slight_smile:

Actually you might be able to make one with a swirl pattern.

  • Make a completely flat disk of glow material with no cutouts. When you pour the material for this disk add the other color and swirl it a bit for pattern. Cure.
  • Then use one of the other glow disks with the cutouts as a template. Lay it on the swirl disk and use a pencil to outline all the holes.
  • Use a drill and hand file to make the cutouts.

Would take a lot of effort though.

as my light hasn’t even shipped yet compatibility is the least of my concerns right now XD
I’m still trying to figure out if I should order a new board from mtn electronics or if it’s even worth it.

I was sure that 219c’s were what I wanted but now I don’t even know, I just don’t want to have to learn how to reflow led’s so gaskets is what I’m getting

Yeah the reason I use the mould is because I don’t have a drill press & doing it freehand is difficult, might try it though.

I don’t have a drill press either.

For freehand, it might work best to make the drilled holes slightly too small. Then use a round needle-file to grind them by hand to the correct size.

I know. Doing that for myself is fine but I can’t spend two hours on each one filing etc and sell them for £6 :smiley:
They take about 45min each as is.

I just found an easy little mod, which costs next to nothing, comes in thousands of colours/thicknesses etc (including GITD) and which also protect your lights! (any really not just this one)
I vape and on my tank to stop it smashing are what are called ‘vape bands’ basically a silicone band - it fits this light perfectly! The ones I have don’t glow, but do look kinda cool imo!
Obviously I’m going to order some GITD ones, so thought I’d share the idea with you!
If this of interest just search ebay or any Chinese shop for ‘vape band’ or add ‘glow’ to it for gitd ones, they come in different widths too.

A ‘plain’ gitd one - link

Nice idea.

I wish there was a multi-sided one available, like I’ve got on my Nitecore EA4.

Do they come in different sizes?
Some of these on the battery tube might be good for the grip flippers :smiley:

I don’t know about different sizes, but they stretch easily though - they may well do different sizes, they certainly do different widths most seem to be 21x10mm. As for ‘anti roll’ shapes, again very likely with a bit of searching, they definitely do ones with lanyard holes on the side (would also stop rolling), I saw those whilst browsing earlier!
I have been googling - vape ring, vape sleeve, vape pouch, vape case …… :person_facepalming:
maybe we should have some custom printed ‘BLF’ ones….Neal! :sunglasses:
These look interesting -


It is counterintuitive to have “Click & Hold” and “Click - Hold” mean different things.

Hold means keeping doing the previous action.

These should all mean the same thing:
Click & Hold
Click - Hold
Click and Hold
Click then Hold

= click, do not release, keep holding

“Double Click &/-/and/then Hold” would mean click, release, click again very soon, keep holding.

edit: TK’s original chart isn’t exactly like this either. In it hold means click and hold but at least that’s obvious unlike this & - and then business :slight_smile:

You can buy 3x boards with just about any emitter already flowed and only need to solder the wires into place.

Even 219b?

Cool, thanks for the input, I was hoping someone would go over it :+1:
I’m just trying to make the chart more obvious as a few people are having difficulty with the UI functions, I found the original a little hard to grasp at first look.

How’s this now?