Today not a flashlight mod, but I did have an opportunity to use some knowledge a out li-ion batteries that I gathered on BLF over the years.
Iâm out camping atm with the family, glamping is probably more correct because we rented a tent, with fridge and garden furniture, on one of the dutch islands. Because of my sonâs condition he needs to inhale nebulised medicine twice daily, using a relatively convenient modern li-ion powered device (a luxury nowadays because with the bulky old nebulising equipment camping vacations were out of the question). And the thing ran out of power this morning and we forgot to bring the click-on charging dock .
Two options: going home 3 days early or start McGyvering. Luckily, while saying nothing about it in the specs because the device has a propriate charging dock, Philips wrote â6V DC, 6Wâ next to the charging pins on the underside, an old and good habit from a traditional electronics company. It gave away that the charging chip was likely inside the device and the dock is just a 6V power source. Would I get away with my 5-ish V USB phone charger? I sacrified a cheap USB cable. Cut the micro-USB plug off and 5cm of the outer sleeve and freed the bare wires. Assuming that the red wire was + and the black one - (wire 3 and 4 should then be for data) , I touched the charging poles of the nebuliser and behold, the charging animation on the display started and my (YZX) USB-tester (never leave home without one , yes Iâm a nerd) gave me 750mA. So some cellotape, a clamp made from a wooden clothpin and some three hours of monotoring and regular re-attaching shifted wires later, the nebuliser was fully charged and the camping trip saved
I would never have been able to do the educated guesses and dare trying this on on a multi-hundred dollar device without my experiences from BLF.
Good save djozzâreminds me of a Beach trip years agoâ my daughter got a big Aâ-S splinter in her foot from the walkwayâI gave her a choice kill the day going to Redi Med or let dear old dad dig it out with a Broach Pin my mom had in her purseâShe said start diggingâthatâs my girl
Took a cheap 100LED UV flashlight, swapped out each LED with a fast auto color changing one. Now its a âParty Lightâ. Not enough party somewhere? Point this at it and the situation is resolved!
A few weeks ago I took apart my Lumintop AAA Tool. This is the newer model with the TIR optic and the angry blue/purple Osram LED. Lumintop decided to glue the pill in, so it took some muscle and bending my tweezers to unscrew the pill. The glue was some sort of black rubbery stuff. In the process the driver was damaged I guess, because it would only work single mode after that.
Luckily Mtn sells the AAA Tool drivers, so I got a few. I also ordered a 3500k SST-20 on a 10mm MCPCB from Kaidomain.
I got the whole thing put back together today and itâs a major improvement to me. Iâm discovering, that like most of you, I like the warmer tints better.
I donât know much about the DUV and the Ra, but I wouldnât call a CCT of 7232K necessarily angry blue. I changed the XP-L HI in a Sofirn Q8 to some 7500K bin SST-40âs a while back, and it was cool, but not angry. I was actually surprised. It made my 5000K BLF Q8 look decidedly warm and green/yellow by comparison. But I thought it would be a lot bluer than it was. My point, I guess, is that it probably depends on the emitter brand, and it definitely is dependent on the âeye of the beholderâ whether some light source looks âangry blueâ or not.
Changed aux LED colors on my E07 again (3rd change now). First I swapped the outter ring to orange but even with the trimmer cranked they were so much dimmer then the purple middle ring I didnât like it so next I swapped the purples out for amber. That orange / amber combo was a great color combo (the only aux LED light Iâve ever had complimented by a non flashaholic!) but again, even with the Trimmers cranked to max they wernt very bright overall and whatâs the point of bling if you canât see it during the day lol.
Iâm happy with this combo, I laid them out this way cause I really liked the flat spaces of the optic when it glowes purple and the green / pink ones light up the optic cones themselves (and that green pattern, which is visible IRL looks cool as hell too)
Yes. IMO the best led you can put behind an optic at the moment.
In fact I only own 2 optic lights with anything else and both of those have LH351D W6âs for shear output.
I have 3000K & 4000K V2âs that I want to try out in my E07, want to do some tint mixing. But I am afraid of the 4000K being too green. I know certain optics increases the green tint. What tint is your setup?