I just received him from Manafont. It worked on a AA. I tried it on a 14500 and it worked for 1 second. Now it doesn't work on anything. I guess they can't all take 14500.
Can someone who has taken one of these apart tell me how to remove the plastic retaining ring and metal plate that is over the emitter. I've got it apart to that point.
It doesn't seem like the emitter is fried...probably just the driver.
Thanks. OK, I got it open. What does the metal disk do? Is it to capture more light or is it for some electrical purpose?
Secondly, what was the most likely part to fry. The emitter looks fine and the driver board looks fine for that matter. The wires are still connected.
I assume that it's some component on the driver board? I don't really care about this light but I'd like to learn more and I might even try to replace the driver just for practice. I haven't done much soldering...too tedious with these small parts.
Third question :) ...just under that metal disc or reflector there was a black film. Is this to insulate the top of the pill from that metal disc?
By the way, the emitter isn't glued down at all. Typical I suppose in cheaper lights?
I modded mine and is my first and only mod so far , I first unscrewed bezel to gain access to the pill , gently pry out the white plastic retaing ring ..shake out the metal disc and plastic insulator and then used a small screwdriver to unscrew the pill , I have pulled 5 of'em apart 1xsipik , 2x mxdl , 2x ultrafire all being different clones of sk6 the ultrafire's and the sipik are the better made of the 3 , both have the more solid pill and of the 2 the ultrafires head seems better fitted with less wobble and firmed slide , keep in mind I only the one sipik to compare but to me the ultrafire's are a little better made of the 3 brands ...the mxdl's both had hollow pills and no notch - keyway machined into it so a bit harder to remove the pill , also the star is held in place just a lil different being just the one white plastic insulartor-retainer washer . none where glued anywhere
The driver on mine have no solder holding it to the pill so it was just a matter of gently prying on the edge and out it pops ...
I then removed the driver from a Solarforce R2 5 mode droppin , used a dremel to hone the sk68's pill out to accommodate it , then soldered the smaller sipiks driver back to the R2 Im very happy with the results in both the sk68 and the R2 droppin as I wanted the R2 in single mode to use on a pressure switch and forward clicky setup ..and better runtime on the sk68 , best of both worlds for me for now
sipik on the left ultrafire on the right , they are the same pill I have painted the cree ring and metal disc black on the sipik
the MXDL
the somewhat solid pill on both the sipik & ultrafire
Even with the clip on it's not water resistent due to the slide zoom function. Using it in rain has caused no problems for me yet but I would not want it to get really wet
I got mine today and I love it, like others have said it isn't 100% water proof, it fails the "suck test" but just barely after lubing the slide head with thick silicone (7 thousand weight RC differential oil/grease). I would certainly say that it is rain/splash proof. With a new, regular Energizer alkaline it reads 1.8 amps across the tail on mine if anyone is interested.
I have one of those. It’s not any brighter than my SK68 but the run time is better. The pill is hollow and the emitter plate only rides on the edges so there isn’t much potential for upgrading unless you fill in the pill. It’s not driven hard but I’d consider modding the pill, installing an XP-G r5 and driving it fairly hard just for poops and chuckles.
I also got that one. The bezel is rubbish (Foywork need), wide position is more narrow than at most zoomies (to narrow for me), but it has some weight, so a bit better heatsinking is possible. With some pill machining it might be modable to XM-L or XP-G with 1.4A or even 1.75A driver. Maybe modable without pill machining, but you would keep narrower flood position. Aspheric lens dimensions 23x8mm. Pulls a bit more than 1A at tail.