What did you mod today?

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.

No bridge, but I bet I know what I did….

Would it act like that if I put the 10 Ohm C1 in the OTC position and the 1 Ohm OTC in the C1 position?

I’ve built literally hundreds and hundreds of drivers, it’s astonishing how many times I forget what goes where. Seriously! If I don’t do it regularly I lose the info… like the girl in 50 First Dates. lol

Thanks for this, I have needed to do something like this for a long time and you just made it easy

So yes, I put the C1 and OTC on wrong. Just pulled both of them and replaced them with the correct new components and it works fine.

Duh!

Edit: Went ahead and bypass the blue spring on the driver with a 22ga turnigy wire, it makes 1510 lumens with either a Sanyo GA or LG MJ1 3500mAh cell.

DBC=back to his regular schedule :sunglasses:

I have actually been contemplating boxing up the table full of gear and just stepping aside, at least for the season. By next Spring if I pick it back up I’ll have to start all over again.

With some 250 lights there isn’t much chance I’ll really need a new one anytime soon…

I have several coming in the mail, and my wife just told me something to the effect of “don’t buy another flashlight… or else!”. I may find it necessary to make myself scarce for a bit.

I’m sure you already do this, but you can spread the light to family/friends to open up the shelf space. I got that 70% off coupon for the Sofirn SC31B recently and gave the light to my mother in law (lots of points for that move, and cost less than $8). I have had several requests from family members who have seen a light or two of mine, and I feel like that list will grow. This allows me to mod, and be generous as well.

Mods I have planned for the near future (waiting on the mailman and some slow boats):

AUX board for FW3CuTi (for me)
emitter swap on D4v2 to practice for D4v2Ti in transit (D4v2 for my brother, D4v2Ti for me)
Install pogo pins on HQ programming key and flash some E07s to the latest Anduril
Jaxman E1 build (possibly for my dad)
Convoy S2+ CU triple build (TBD)

I’ve been slowly selling/giving stuff away until something new and exciting comes along. Sort of just hanging back waiting for the next really interesting new advancement be it LED, battery, driver or a unique host of some kind (rotary, aspheric?). We’ll see…

In any case no worries Dale, i’ll PM you and try to suck you back in when something exciting comes along :slight_smile: