Two lights that will be heading to the US for completion.
lights to mod....
N-light B2s emitter oncopper
Eastward Yj j09....Nicha ?
Edi-t p-14 dedomed xpg2? driver
Nitecore SR3 copper xml hi cri warm 3000 illumination supply
Olight i-6 tint mod hi cri 5b on copper ?
Eagletac ti D25A hi cri xml on copper
Xeno F8v5 emitter swap
N-light L2 tint mod
I have another 10+ that need fixed but need more parts ...Time to order from RMM
Got a XM-L2 T6 4C coming with a few different TIR optics to try and cram into my D25C Ti Clicky. Can’t wait to get rid of that nasty tint and maybe since its apart it will get a new flame job. >)
I have done one or two this month. 
I suggest that this may be closer to 25.
I got a Solarforce L2M host and put in an XM-L T6 P60 drop-in from a UF 501B and changed the stock 5 mode driver with a KD V2 3 amp driver set to 3 modes, high~~med~~>firefly low. I think this is now my favorite carry light in 18350 mode. This is also my first Solarforce host and I am loving it.
does this count? coffee m2 
with custom pwm driver and xm-l2 t6 3c on noctigon board
I haven’t seen info about shaving a mtg2 here, I need more infos….?
I have a STL v6 with mtg and a zyt13 with XML which I compare every night and I am still not sure which emmitter I should put in my t08?
The shaved MT-G2 has a tighter hot spot, still not real tight but it does help it produce more throw in the hybrid reflector of the M8.
I used silicon grease like Comfy recommended, and a new Xacto knife blade, (a chisel style would have been better) and carefully sliced the dome off about 1/32" or slightly thicker above the die. This left me a nice flat dome that fits beautifully flush into the reflector. I sanded it carefully with 1000 grit paper til it was buttery smooth, (it didn't want to take a gloss) Then, also a comfy challenge, I used the same knife to cut the outer edges of the circle off, getting rid of excess phosphor and trying to maintain the same 1/32" border from the edge of the dies. Looks cool, works quite well!
With the flat dome the spill was warmer than the hot-spot. Now the spill is white again (or the soft white the MT-G2 is more known for) and the hot-spot is not as defined, blends into the spill more than being a hard edge. Very very useable!
The red oil drum in the center is 97 yds away, taken with a Canon G1X, ISO1600 f/5.6 1/2 sec exposure at 28mm in Manual mode with Manual focus and 2 second timer.
Don't think it throws? Same settings but for f/5.8 (fastest the G1X will go when zoomed) and 112mm. The white barn is 610 yds away. Not lit up like a dedicated thrower, but not too shabby either, especially at only 3.74A. (I ran out of chips, will remedy that when my FastTech order arrives ;) )
Open in a new window with a right click and look at it larger, I'm pretty sure if you were standing at that barn with a matchbook having a phone number hand written inside the cover, you'd be able to get the call made based on the light available. ;) For the record, the barbed wire fence that appears close in the pic is actually 100 yds from the camera and light. Looking close, just under the top strand of barbed wire there are white fence posts visible of the fence 300 yds from the light.
Made this adapter for a 200mW green laser to fit inside an old Brinkmann Legend LX out of Nylatron GS, a 32mm bar of molybdenum disulphide impregnated nylon. This stuff is some tough plastic! Even shaving a coil off in the turning process (no lathe, drill press and vice with high speed steel planer blade) the thin strip of plastic was difficult to break, stronger than a similar shaving of 6061.
The cell phone tower is 2.09 miles away. Open the pic in a new window, click it to view larger, tell me if you think it's hitting the tower...
Nice!
I had tried to slice a XML dome in former time and it ended ugly…
I have searched the forum but can’t find any dedicated thread for the mtg2 slicing…my stlv6 has a kind of yellow donut hole too, I thought it is because of the ugly dirty reflector…anyway only visible on a white wall.
Mtg on 4A is nice that’s how mine is driven too. I used the two cell driver with the slomotion mode changing. I have fujiked everything together so I won’t dissassemble the light anymore anyway to play with the dome.
I have another one of these 2 cell driver on order this time the one from fastech with the super low sensing resistors…
I am not sure what the best option might be as I have the I impression that the narrow XML beam is very impressive, if you consider that it is only driven with half the power even more.
I need a reason for spending 20$ on a single emitter
That sliced and diced mtg2 is really cool! I wasn’t comfortable with the idea of picking bits of dome off around those tiny little phosphor crystals but this looks much more doable. Nicely done.
Did you notice any change to the die pattern yellow splotches that some have reported in the beam profile? Better or worse after the slice?
Cheers
I was noticing a yellow spot in the middle of the hot spot before. That's gone now. When I first sliced it, the spill was noticeably warmer than the hot spot, the hot spot had a well defined circle. Now , after the "diced" part, the spill is a nice soft white again and the hot spot is less defined, merges more into the spill which is an effect I like.
Slice to get a tight hot spot, defined edges. Slice and dice to soften the edges of the hot spot and bring tint back into normal range for the MT-G2. ;)
Edit: compared to the S2200 that's been bumped in a resistor mod this one is warmer. But it's not being driven hard at all, so that's part of it no doubt.
Cool thanks for the description, sounds interesting for sure. Sounds like the phosphor at the edges of the emitter has quite some effect on the emission tint.
I still haven’t fired up an mt-g2 inside a reflector yet so I’m not too sure what I can expect from the stock emitter. In any case multi emitter mt-g2s in the BTU shocker reflector array will be pretty damn floody and also fairly forgiving in terms of blotchiness I would imagine.
But I will definitely be trying this on my next mt-g2 build especially if it’s going to be more of a thrower.
November mods..
-Ive done some mods to the Lustefire 3x U2, and various high current testing... I have not mentioned much about it in the thread yet..
-Just did the Convoy L4..
-Did some minor stuff to the cheapo WB zoomie.. Not too impressed by the XB-D in that light... I swapped back to stock. Ill give the little XB-D a chance in a reflector light..
-I fried 2 high XM-L2s in my ZY-T08. Mentioned some about it here. First i used the light with stock driver, then modified stock driver, then modified TR3T6 driver (that was when the killing started). Now I have a modified Lustefire 3XU2 driver set up to do about 6,4-6,5amps.... And a XM-L2 U2 1A which is taking a bath..
-Did some more experimenting with the Archon M20XL driver.. No success..
-Swapped emitter in my Archon M30XL. Now its got an XP-G2. I wont bother with the stock driver in that...
-Swapped emitter in my T10 and did some resistance mods..
-Swapped one emitter in my SRK, now mixed emitters. :)
-Swapped emitter in ZY-T619. I did not like XP-E2 which I earlier "upgraded" too, so I changed to XM-L2. But due to vf, and me wanting to use the modified stock driver I ended up using an XM-L on Noctigon instead.. Ill sell the light.. It became quite decent after I had machined the body a little and put in some copper in that hollow body..
-Swapped emitter in STL-V6, used to have XP-G2 in it.. Now domed XM-L2 U2 1A (sitting on copper "pill").
-Swapped emitter in my ZY-T13 (de-domed XM-L2 U2 1A), I used to have a de-domed XM-L2 that was overly green-ish, which I swapped into my C8, which ill get rid of now..
-Modified 4pcs FL-2 3A style drivers for higher output...
I might have done more.... Every month is a mod month. Some months are more active than others though.. :)
Hold your breath...... December might be considered part of November this year ....
wow .....sliced and diced
Love the pic.
Looks like an old Luxeon K2
except it's bright :)
I knew there was something familiar about it! (horrible memory) looks much like that, but on steroids! Wonder if the K2 ever dreamed of 4000 lumens….
Edit:
in playing the mod game, I put SinkPAD mounted XM-L2 U2 1C emitters in my Terminator, created a spike to go between the 4 heads…planned on it protruding about 3/4” for the Terminator style, then chickened out as I like to stand my lights on their face to keep dust off the lens.
Argh don’t extend mod month…I’ll never get anything finished without a deadline! 