What did you mod today?

Put a 3V XHP50.2 in an emisar D1.

The D1 host is a handy little mini thrower, but its reflector has held it back. The center section of the reflector deviates from parabolicity so itā€™s impossible to completely focus smaller emitters like the 2mm WF or even the stock XPL HI. This results in decreased throw since not all of the reflecting surface is used for the hotspot.

So I put in a sliced XHP50.2. The emitting surface is large enough to get better focus of the reflector. I usually have a hard time deciding what emitter to put in what light (because most of my lights donā€™t have actual uses, just theoretical uses :smiley: ). So in this case it was nice to have the decision made easier by the reflector.

With stock springs and a VTC5A it pulled 16A at turn on and did 46kcd at about 5s. From my ceiling bounce I estimate 3300 lumens.

Edit: in fact partly because of the better utilization of the reflector area, this mod about equals the throw of the stock XPL HI, but with 3x the lumens. :laughing:

An amazing pic EasyB!

Thanks. There is diffuse sun light doing a bit of phosphor excitation and my phone camera does a HDR thing which makes pics look real good.

Not really a mod, but it might give inspiration

I made a double flashlight tripod mount from a 1U server rack cover, the plan is to make beamshots and flashlight comparisons.

Good idea. - I wont say what my first thought wasā€¦ :blush:

A dirty mind is a joy forever :wink:

Broom holder?

hahahaha

Modded an empty bottle of my favorite rum into some X-mas lighting.

Put a lighted tailcap on my brandnew Panda White Lumintop Tool AA 2.0 HM.

And made this light available in my 3k post GAW.

Fitted a 5a 2s mantaray driver into a jax Z1 with a nice 80 CRI MT-G2 for the ultimate flooder

Love seeing the MT-G2 getting some attention! Sweet!

Copper Tool
installed E21a 3500k and fully captive clip

due to a series of mishaps, and unanticipated outcomes,

the clip now fits in my preferred hat lamp orientation

2 cheap eBay lights with 2 cheap eBay LED's, yes I was bored.

Pretty vintage led now . but i still prefer it to the Bill Gates summoning Xhp70.2, im not sure what the lumen count is at 5 amps but it certainly lights a nice area

I still have multiple lights with MT-G2, including a triple that I built from scratch. Love the tint this big emitter makes and surprisingly enough it can have a nice beam profile in the right reflector. :wink: Also have an old BTU Shocker that I fitted with MT-G2ā€™s, in this light there is a defined hot spot that is surprisingly smallā€¦ really do love em! :smiley:

Edit: Was forgetting about the massive TrustFire TR-J20 that I built a huge heat sink for and fitted with 4 MT-G2ā€™sā€¦ itā€™s making almost 15,000 lumens while the other two big ones are in the 10,000 to 12,000 range. Yup, really do love the MT-G2 and like seeing it being put to use. :wink:

Edit II:

I have 19 MT-G2ā€™s in use, in (I think) 12 flashlights. Probably forgetting somethingā€¦

Very nice work, I bet they really kick it out!! I like the 5k 80cri it really isnt far behind the xhp70 when driven hard but the tint is just so much nicer almost like real daylight

I have the MT-G2 in a lot of very different lights, such as the Nitecore TM-03, a 2D Maglite with a fiber optic battery indicator, a Lucky Sun D80, Solarforce K3, S2200, M8, and C2000 , as well as my DBC-05 triple, the BTU Shocker, and the TR-J20. Also have a hybrid TIR over an MT-G2 in an L6. And of course, I have an X6 with the fat MT-G2 and an extension tube. :slight_smile:

One of the major differences is the array status of the big emitter, itā€™s almost like a COB really. So the quality of the light is due to the 72 small die surfaces most likely. When I was building the M8 I didnā€™t have a suitable driver back then so I ran it literally direct drive, it would pull just over 16A at about 4300 lumens. Ah, the good ol days! lol

Probably funny questions, but Iā€™m still too young here.

I have this flashlight disassembled for a long time because I donā€™t know how to do heat dissipation well. Do you have any great solution or did you leave it as is?

There was an extension tube for X6?

I made a heat sink for the K3.

I was one of the team on the X6 group buy, there were a few extension tubes made for the team. They missed the length but I have worked around thatā€¦ interestingly enough that was another Neal failure, not only was the length wrong but the MT-G2ā€™s he sent for me to build team lights were also wrongā€¦ he sent 9V instead of 6V MT-G2ā€™s.