What did you mod today?

That gave me a good laugh. It’s not really a very practical type knife .

I think maukka, TK, probably bob all have something similar but I decided my mobile modding station needed a bit of light and I just couldn’t fathom working on high CRI flashlights and having a low CRI desk light.

The arm is huge, probably overkill for this size desk but if i want a really floody option I can get it real high up or use it on the opposite end of the desk, so i’ll keep the bigger swing arm. Pretty popular and affordable ~95CRI Viltrox L116T light with a (optional) DC adapter.

Parts:

Adjustable clamp on boom with 1/4 stud:

Viltrox light:

DC Power supply:

Bonus tip:

You can see my ridiculous haul of optics from Yajiamei. Add a bunch of shit to your cart and do the classic “order but dont pay” then send a message to them to adjust the shipping costs. Thank me later.

Nothing special this time. Luxeon V 4000k, TA with bistro HD FET+6+1. All this in the L2T body with the L2P tail. Led soldered directly to the KD pill. Pill surrounded by copper sheet and tight pressed into a flashlight. I still have to make the switch and it will be over.

Thank you. It looks like I’ve always overpaid.
How much did you save?

Yep, I can confirm we’re all using the Viltrox as a work light :smiley: I upgraded mine to the architect lamp style arm instead of a flex arm earlier this year and I’m much happier. Zak and I have panels installed on the arm that comes with the Ikea Tertial lamp because it’s cheap and very robust compared to a lot of ones sold separately on Amazon.

Product Amount US $ 8.17
Shipping Cost US $ 28.95
Tax US $ 1.66
Total US $ 22.53

This was about 30 optics with about 24 unique types so it had an absurd $29 in shipping. I guess they marked the shipping down by more than half?

Did you fix the centering ring on this…

I also have the Ikea Tertial, but I use it for one of Bocian’s 4000K LED bulbs. Viltroxes are all on flexible goosenecks with spring clamps, so I can easily move them around for different purposes.

Clearly you missed the word “professional” on the box of mine… :smiley:

I saw the Ikea lamp option in my shopping around for ideas but the Ikea in my (big) city is quite a ways away and it’s a mad house inside.

Sorry. I do not understand what you mean.
I used the butterfly pad for xm size leds.

2 corners of the LED are inside and it looks like the opposite corners are under the ring…enlarge/blow up the pic…

I see that too, might be better to just round out the inside so it can spin freely

The corners are probably crushed when tightening the reflector. I had something similar in Convoy M1, also with luxeon v.

I didn’t mod a flashlight but I did change the oil on the truck today. Couldn’t find my filter wrench. Drilled a hole through the filter, put a screwdriver through the hole and loosened it that way.

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Built a couple EDC carbon fibre spare cell carriers/ chargers.

CRX EDC Carbon Fibre 16340 Charger 700mA.

CRX EDC Carbon Fibre 10280 Charger 140mA.

CRX Utility Keyring - 47's Atom XHP50.2 3v, DQG Hobi+ 365nm UV & Petrol Lighter, 1.6W 450nm Blue Laser.

Hadn’t built a light in a while (weird huh?) so I put together a 17mm FET+1 and assembled an X6 from host stage with a 20mm Noctigon and Samsung LH351D W6 5000K emitter. Bypassed the spring in the tail and used a large Blue spring on the driver. Straightforward enough, right? Done this dozens and dozens of times… this time the driver blinked down to moon at level 4 of 7!

So I did the mod using two 2000 resistors and got it stable, makes 1460 lumens with a GA cell. Now the typically easy reversing doesn’t work properly. Won’t work at all in the default mode and the medium press mode takes almost 4 seconds to shift it down. Have forgotten why this would be. Getting old…

I hate those Easy Typical builds I’ve done several times—especially the ones I think are straight forward—How do they say that —If it can happen,It will happen

Figures after I posted this — I’m making some Trim for some Skylights I replaced(I have to match some trim I made 10 yrs ago) —- started looking for a Round Over router bit(I’ve used this bit 1000s of times)—looked all over in the case — I have quite a few bits—- anyway kind of had given up—then Walla found it —still in the router from the last time I used it — I hope this is the extent of my excitement today —— :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming:

I have done that too. :person_facepalming:

I know this behaviour from lighted tail and bleeder resistor, but not without those. Perhaps you intruduced a “bleeder resistor” with an unwanted tiny solder bridge between batt+ and ground? You can check if the current is unusually high at moon setting.

Added an n52 3/4” in. 1/16” magnet to my zebralight sc64w hi. Super simple , sanded the endcap, magnet off eBay came with super thin adhesive. Peel and stick.

Thanks Jos, will open her up and check for that. And of course, once I read that I remembered similar behavior with the bleed resistor on the early ones. Just go blank these days and the info I am trying to retrieve eludes me.