For me, it’s not really modding unless you break something, so here is tonight’s sacrifice:
I thought I could pry the board out first. Nope (well yes, but not recommended) it’s soldered on the other side of the press fit ring.
Oh well, I took apart a perfectly good modded S2+ to gut the driver and MCPCB. I planned to do it anyways but still I hate taking working lights apart cause more than once I just end up with two not functioning lights. Desperate times since LED4Power is on hiatus.
Filed down and pressed into ring, lightly soldered. Ring then pressed into pill, no solder:
Might as well get that tail spring too:
Gotta have that temp sensor. Sad part is I re-flowed the LED cause I feel more confident doing that (on a 3535 board no less) than transferring the NTC from board to board.
Gasket with side clipped, pretty sure from intl-outdoor. It’s probably not ideal cause the “reflector” (MascaratumB’s word) only screws down about half way. Ideally it would be sanded down some.
Tail wont go on, springs are too long, ugh. Button maybe?
Nope, not enough. Tail has to change too:
It turns out this tail is partly why the light is so compact. The tail legos with an S2+ and if you hold them side by side you can see a few mm difference. This light will likely never fit anything but flat tops. It also explains why I initially thought the original springs were so thin and cheap because they have to fully compress to fit a normal battery.
End result:
I set the driver to around 5.3A and measured 63.4kcd
If OTR is lisenting: add another ~1.5 - 2.0mm to the tail cap and get better springs on both ends.