What did you mod today?

Roomy, yes. Being 20mm I didn’t worry about packing things in. Can easily go 17mm and probably 15mm.

Driver as Oshpark: OSH Park ~

Programming Key: OSH Park ~

That 3 pin key really is nice, so small and those pads can fit anywhere.

So this is potentially a driver that could be wired to a USB charger port for flashing?

Congratulations gchart, awesome job. I know you been working on this for awhile.
Glad you got everything working as expected, which I knew you would :wink: .

FW3A with Osram Red Flat and lume1 driver and RGB aux board. Even at the regulated 3A it kind of hurts to look at the beam in a small room. It’s a bit crazy.

I’m going to edit this post in the lume1 thread later with more build details.

Wowsers, nice build!

That is a tight fit - nice job contactcr!

beautiful work :+1:

I dont like the feeling I get when I see the beam of my 620nm Orange/Red, its a disorienting color.

going to try 660nm next….


pic courtesy of andy zhu @azhu

what are your impressions of the reds youve tried?

It peaks at 625, but avg 620-625nm, which is spot on from datasheet.

The camera picks up even more red than my eyes see.

My impression of red LEDs? I don’t know what to use them for but you better believe the first/last/next time i’m on a submarine i’ll be the talk of the sea. There are probably hogs, coyotes and deer in that tree line but the red light wont help me avoid fire ants on the way. haha

pain relief, after the ants bite you

faster healing, energize mitochondria, improve vision…
In the Mood Light

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Nice work ‘gchart’ :smiley: , You guys amaze my building these drivers :+1:

Just finished fixing the MT09 Buffalo led that fried after converting a 6v mcpcb to 12v to match Lexel’s 6A driver.
Burnt one and new parts.

. 8512 lux @ 6.46 meters.

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I am very happy with this finished Buffalo, it is the most enjoyable mod I have done. It is very bright :smiley:
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Stock approx - 4100 lumens, 450 meter throw
modded approx - 6500 lumens, 1200 meter throw
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Daaaang. Nice work. Glad you got it up and running again.

I upgraded my 2x D4sV1 lights with D4sv2 drivers and rgb aux boards. While I had them apart, I swapped some sst20 660nm emitters into one of them. My house is about 100 yards away in this picture.

Very cool. :slight_smile:

Superb. May we see some driver pics?

Nothing fancy. I recently received the Sofrin C01R and found that the low mode was not low enough.
And I got a bit restless of waiting for the presentation of the Sofirn C01 host.
Then I read THIS review of the Nicron N1 and tried my luck on Ebay.
To my big surprise it did not take long to get to my doorstep.
I have a some 5mm leds from disassembling all kinds of electronics, I think this came out of a PC.
So I don’t know make or model of the led, just that it was a clear one, and that it emitted red light.
The mod was easy (following the link). I used a pencil with attached eraser to push led+board out.

The results.

From left to right: Manker Boney, Nicron N1 with red 5mm instrument led, Sunwayman R01A

This red light is very nice for getting in and out of bed without disturbing your next of kin too much.
Effective reach is about 1.5m (6tf), which is enough to maneuver around safely in a familiar room.

following up, we are on to the real thing now. I’m not sure what I expected but it’s definitely unique. It kind of has 3 distinct looking “sides” if you will, some being more or less cool but it’ll do! I think that happened because of a bit uneven heating as well as the sideways dip in Ferric Chloride. If I did it again I would possibly try the body tube by itself. The pattern transitioned some but it’s not really obvious that I kept it together.

Imgur album: Imgur: The magic of the Internet

That looks incredible Contactcr!

Very well done!!! :+1:

A few simple mods to my old Sipik 58 zoomies. Added pocket clips and metal tailcap button covers:

Lumintop Copper Tool w 660nm red, on Copper Maratac aaa body.
LMH sequence is now 5, 10, 12 lumens. Unexpected since it was 3, 20, 80 lumen stock. I expected the first mode to go lower, not higher…