What did you mod today?

These? Amazon.com

Yeh, nice and bendy.

In case it helps:

:+1:

Ha! And a Wilkinson blade, too. :laughing:

A microtome.

I finally threw my CULNM1 (Boost HL, I think) in my Z1 after I burned the 1mm2 white flat I put in the first time. It's a glorious pencil-beam.

I did have to ream out a 3535 centering ring I had that fit the Z1, and unfortunately it is a white centering ring. So, there's a funny-looking pale donut around the blindingly white square I've painted on my wall. I can't wait to get it outdoors but it's too late now.

On white centering rings I always do an Al Jolson.

It took me a minute, but I think I figured it out, Al Jolson did blackface. I hadn't thought about painting/Sharpie/whatever the centering ring, but I'm not too worried about it. Every time I open the Z1, a certain O-ring tries to attack me and more importantly the underside of the lens (it got greasy once, and I took great care in cleaning it). Besides, the donut ring is humorous to me.

The thing is awesome though. I can see the beam itself through the air in the right environment (kind of like my green laser, but of course less). I know it's running at ~4.94 Amps (13x0.380A 7135) but I've been able to run it for several minutes without adverse effects. And I'm not too worried about battery life with a 5500mAh Shockli. The thing is not practical at all, it's the pencil-est beam I've yet dealt with, and for flood, well, it's burning 5A for like 900 lumens or something, I don't remember exactly the output. But it's so fun. And it fits in a coat pocket, unlike my MF02 (though I'm sure the MF02 out-throws it). I want to take it downtown at night and paint squares on buildings :D

I've got a second one, so now I'm seriously considering modding the MF02. If I got the focus right, it would be disgusting. I'd need a new driver, though...

I got some Feather Double Edge razor blades. They did great, had no idea those were so flexible and different from single sided safety razors.

Sliced a bit of my finger just setting it down wrong, scary sharp and hard to safely handle!

Hence the difference between them and safety razors…

I finally rebuilt my fw3a with sw40 219b’s. It took a while to reflash the ATtiny85 chip to toymakers andruil firmware as I had to get a better ROIC clip.

I cannot tell the difference in color between my m43 sw45k 219b and sw40. Same luscious rosey tint.

So, what’s the difference between “toymakers andruil firmware” and the stock Anduril firmware that the light comes with?

FET limited to 50 or 75%, can’t recall which.

So the firmware he flashed is FET limited for the 219B?

Right. Not really required if you use GA or similar battery but it’s available so why not

Cool. I put some below the BBL 3000K SST-20’s in my FW3A with a 10507 optic. It’s amazing…

How about a picture?

I’m betting these look very nice in a FW3A.

Must be getting quite hot though. :slight_smile:

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I finally rebuilt my fw3a with sw40 219b’s. It took a while to reflash the ATtiny85 chip to toymakers andruil firmware as I had to get a better ROIC clip.

I cannot tell the difference in color between my m43 sw45k 219b and sw40. Same luscious rosey tint.


Want more rosey goodness? The FW3A len’s is not the best…UCL lens on the Right

Got just over 600 lumens more in the FW4A with the UCL lens…over the Stock FW3A lens.

Hm. Should measure the difference at a regulated level. Any issue with the o ring or waterproofing you think?

I’ll take a few comparison shots vs my Convoy S3 4000K Luxeon V and post it soon :+1:

It heats up a bit faster than the 7A XP-L HI’s that were in it but it’s hardly noticeable. I would probably have noticed a bigger difference if it had NW or CW emitters in stock form. The throw is about the same as the stock XP-L HI 10511 combo, but the spill is obviously not the same. So less lumens, but same throw, epic high CRI golden goodness. Great LED’s BlueSwordM!