BTU Shocker Triple MT-G2 with a twist -- Aiming for >100Watt ~9000Lumens -- With external 2S power pack, handle etc...

Wicked. Totally wicked.

J)

I hope those cable ties aren't your perma solution.

Going the full nine yards, you should be able to find a way to get some short metal tube (prob around half the length of the original battery holder), thread it and mount that handle with some bolts.

There’s no problem that can’t be solved by cable ties! :wink:

The whole handle mounting is totally temporary, like I said even the rail mount I’m currently using isn’t what I will end up with. It’s just a scope mount from Kaidomain that happened to arrive in the mail by accident and I put it to use since it had a short picatinny rail on top that I could easily mount my handle riser to for testing. Works surprisingly well though and gives me a chance to try out different handle mount configurations before I commit and start drilling into the BTU.

Ultimately I will be bolting a short, relatively flat picatinny rail onto the body of the light which I will then mount the handle riser to directly. Still not sure if I will try to attach this rail further back on the tailcap as I planned in my 3d models or if I will drill the bolt holes directly into the battery tube as in the current handle configuration.

Or… as you say I could use the current scope mount, ditch the temporary zip ties and figure out a better mounting for it that would be sturdy but also non destructive to the BTU body. I was thinking along he lines of replacing the zip ties with thin metal rods with threaded ends that I would bend around the battery tube/body and bolt/tension to the scope mount plates with a set of lock nuts.

Lots of options at the moment :slight_smile:

Through all the BTU threads/posts/pics every time I think to myself “that is a big light… and I need one.”

But that picture of you holding onto the handle put it more into perspective.

I did a double take and it made me remember this ridiculously large shoulder-able halogen spotlight I was given some 5-7 years ago. There isn’t really resemblance, seeing a flashlight with a handle just made me remember it.

hehe, yeah the BTU is a BIG light. It’s kind of silly really, first time I picked it up it felt like I had just grabbed a deliberately oversized prop from a movie or something. Something like Hellboy’s personal flashlight! :wink:

With a handle in this kind of “lantern” format it makes a bit more sense to me.

Definitely makes sense to me for sure. I have tiny hands; fingertips can’t touch when holding a D maglite. :stuck_out_tongue:

Your mod looks great btw, even in mock-up.

Very nice. Your mod is looking real good.

That looks awesome! Really cool stuff here!

Oh look there’s a baby flashlight on my flashlight!

Thanks again goes to kaidomain for this scope mount that I didn’t know I needed, had no idea how useful it could be for this build! hehe :slight_smile:

There’s no such thing as too much.

Now you need to mount 3 more handles to the btu and 6 or 7 rails on the bezel so you can do something truely effective. Like this, but in a flashlight:

:wink:

hehe :slight_smile:

Great job wut a monster!

Well, a small update in the grand scheme of things but I succeeded in flashing my first nanjg 105c driver with custom firmware today!
Took a fair bit of reading, fiddling with SOIC clips and hitting dead ends with eXtreme AVR Burner before I finally got things working with AVRDude.
I couldn’t have done it without the great wiki resources and threads offered by users of this forum so thanks a lot to all involved :slight_smile:

Being able to flash custom firmware will be super handy in getting the precise driver modes and operation I want in this flashlight. Not to mention any other light. I’m pleased I have that hurdle crossed.

Cheers

Well done. Congratulations is in order. :beer:

Bomb build, nice!

Thanks guys!

This might save someone some frustration when attempting to program atmel chips with a SOIC clip from ebay. Like this one

I had some communication issues at first and it was frustrating because I wasn’t sure if I had messed up the pinout or if it was a software issue.
Turns out it was because of the clip. The little copper tabs/pins on my clip tend to move and slide inwards if pushed, and it’s very easy to accidentally push them in when trying to make a good contact on a chip that’s soldered to the driver board. Once they’re no longer at the very tip of the clip grooves they won’t make good contact anymore and you’ll often fail to connect to the chip.

Solution that I came up with in frustration was to dab a touch of super glue into the pin guides inside the clip. First pull/push the pins forward as far at they will go and then apply a small drop of contact adhesive where you see the copper pins run inside the clip. Careful to avoid getting any on the contacts or at the back where they mate with the cable pins. I accidentally seeped some glue in to one wire contact so that one is now permanently attached…whoops :stuck_out_tongue:
Anyway the glue holds the pins in place solidly and I can now clip on with perfect contact every time, even on tight pcbs layouts like the nanjg 101c :slight_smile:

Looking at the clip, maybe it’s just mine but it seems these pins aren’t held in there particularly well, looks like the plastic has just been melted down around them.
So if you have this similar problem just glue the buggers down :slight_smile:

First in line for production model.

Lol, something tells me this will be a one of a kind light

hehe, how many can I put you down for? :bigsmile:

This is starting to remind me of the first project light i built of this nature. :slight_smile: i like these weaponized designs using gun parts and Pitticany rail mounts. :stuck_out_tongue: