Novatac Storm the budget version of HDS light?

I wrote a little how-to back when I discovered the function... maybe it is time to write a full how-to in a separate article.

Wow I should tell you guys Amazon has these for $17 plus $5 shipping unless I buy the rest of them...................hmmmmm.

http://www.amazon.com/NovaTac-120ST-Storm-LED-Flashlight/dp/B003GAEZL6

Will someone please buy the black one for me and ship it to me in australia???

I'm really itching to get another XM-L mod going! Its seriously an awesome flood light with super smooth beam. The neutral XM-Ls from cutter are equally awesome!

I just tried. Even though amazon showed 2 left in stock, at check-out it said they were all sold out. Sorry mate.

Awww.... thanks for the thought!

They are still in stock for $23 plus $5 shipping through amazon at anime_castle.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000PHX4P6/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all

Thanks guys. Didn't know about "alternative" whatever. Looks like there's a tool bar up there with all kinds of stuff.

blindersFoy

Black.. hmm Would love to have a go at some gold! haha.

The 17670 tubes are a dark grey though, so either way it never matches.

Yah so back to the shipping issue.. Is anyone willing to send me a couple of the torches to australia? Im probably going to be after two or so..

I think theres only 1 left from each store according to amazon, however there may be none left...

Thanks in advance.

Not sure where to put it, but I was curious, so I took a radiograph (x-ray) of my 120P. Internally its pretty impressive! Good sound mechanical/thermal design, not often seen in many of my torches.

  1. Goooooood amount of aluminium in the head, providing good thermal mass, and a really solid amount of flat, thermally greased contact area for the pill (were talking about half a square inch of solid fully pressured surface area)
  2. Thermal grease (silver based) visible radiographically (When I modded mine to XM-L I removed the mica based and replaced it with a silver based one, but the idea is that its there in the first place
  3. Seriously thick aluminium behind the emitter - good thermal mass and conductivity to the head.
  4. Artic Silver 5 paste, also heavily loaded by the lens/pill assembly, ensuring full compression and maximal thermal conductivity.
  5. Thermal pad between the main driver chip and the back of the pill/heatsink.
  6. 4 layer PCB on the top PCB.
  7. Can see the tiny wire connections Within the chips. (the tall white wires are the links between the top and bottom PCB.
  8. Wire strap associated with the protection circuit on trustfire flame 2400s

Might be easier to read if inverted...

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but is that an x-ray of some kind? Really, really cool.

Foy

Yah x-ray of the torch! See-through photo! lol

*edited post to prevent confusion*

Ok so how do i get one of those xray machines. That would be cool if they had a flashlight sized portable xray machine.

You might try a very old-fashioned shoe shop - they used to have X-Ray machines in all of them to X-ray your feet for fitting shoes. They tended to be high-voltage, high power devices that probably could see through a typical light. They were also a very, very Bad Idea.

And have been banned for forty years or more. I can just remember them sitting in a corner collecting dust from when I was a kid in the 60's.

Yes i've heard of that

Wow. I think that's the coolest thing I've seen all day. I guess I could ask one of the security guys to x-ray stuff for me but I think I'd rather not be known as the crazy flashlight dude around here. :D ;)

Very interesting. I think that's the first time I hear about this. They used to x-ray your feet? Yikes. I imagine Marie Curie must have been spinning in her grave.

That's one of the reasons why I love BLF. I learn something new and interesting every day. :)

Some questions, are there two pcb connected by solid/rigid connection in 7?

What's with the spring around the battery?

Are the white parts in the first photo the "hard to pass" material (hence hard to see mbpcb)? If so it's interesting that it passes through a battery.

I havent opened up the driver yet physically (which is why I took the radiograph) and Im tempted to say that the connection between the top and bottom PCB appears to be a rigid connection.

The spring around the battery is the electrical return wire for the tail switch. The switch at the tail is just your normal tactile switch (think switches on front panels of your LCD screen). This means its not a current carrying switch (thus im happy to XM-L mod this torch).

You are correct, the white = what the x-rays cant pass through.

Radiographs are normally developed white (clear film), and the places which the x-rays hit the film become darker. So where its white = where no x-rays hit the film

Foy needs an integrating sphere and a radiograph thingy.

Foy

Tried to order one from Amazon, even through the other seller, they are out of stock.