FW3A mod thread. Post yours!

Absolutely. The LH351Ds are extremely floody compared to the SST-20s the FW3A come stock with.

I purchased a couple used FW3As —One had a couple nicks/etc — decided to bead blast and polish it—-I had been wanting to build a Triple with a mix of LEDs—I went with a
SST 20 4K / XP-G3 4K / LH351D 3.5K combination —- tint seems to be pretty nice (on wall so far) — I compared it to another FW3A with LH351D 4Ks — seems to be slightly more Rosey and have a slight bit mor throw—won’t know anything till the night comes

Love the crenellated bezel! I want one.

Don’t those LEDs have very different forward voltages?

Yes they do —- seems to be working fine — I would imagine the higher forward voltage is regulating the others—I’m not sure

Where can I buy a spare driver?

I believe Neal will sell them, try a PM or Facebook messenger.

I’ve purchased 7 total. So easy to reflash and make it your own. I’ve Evilbayed off several lights to fund these. So far, my daily carry has proved to be waterproof and absorbed lots of drops and concrete rash. Sincere thanks to EVERYONE involved in the development of this torch. I tend to use things for long periods of time. Even with a failure, I don’t believe there is too much I couldnt fix or improvise a replacement part for.

What size trit vials fit these fancy titanium clips from Neal?

1.5x6mm

Thanks! :+1:

Did you change the anodization? Could be the lighting, but that looks to be hard anodized.

What size screws did you use for the clip?

It’s hard Titanium…

2-56 or 4-40 (depends if at first you don’t succeed) with roll/form tap not cut tap… I get thru work…

. Like these….Taps – Thread Forming – OSG HY-PRO | TiConnector

what are the compatible driver and emitter size? and what are some good sources to obtain them? any in US? or is kaidomain the best bet?

anyone have experience with these?

i need a driver to drive these…

This light doesn’t have any third party drivers available right now. It’s designed to run three LEDs in parallel all at once, so the multicolored board you linked wouldn’t really work.

I would like to replace both the emitter and driver.

JC (from JC Customs) is putting boards with secondary emitters in the FW3A. I know he’s been recompiling Anduril to allow control over the secondaries.

Not sure what board he’s using though.

Link to pic (can’t get it to embed, sorry)
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It’s the mtn electronics triple board. Afaik he either doesn’t share his source or no one that owns one has asked for it. We have discussed it already