I’ve got slow2go’s lighted tailcap made, but I need to make sure it’s bright enough for him before I send it out. Two red 0805 LED’s and a 1k limiting resistor. The reds take a lot more current to be bright enough to see in a normally lit room, the green I used on the tailcap of my S6 is much brighter using a 2.2k limiting resistor. It definitely won’t be visible on a sunny day or a very bright room, but it is in a reasonably normal light level inside, and is bright but not hugely distracting in the dark. I solder the brass post directly to the spring/wire jumper, and had to machine the plastic collar and aluminum retainer to make everything seat fully and have a little movement still in the spring. I’m definitely going to be making Chinese slave labor wages putting these things together at $8 a piece, but I like them going out on the lights, so whatever.
This is before I had machined the collars.
It lights up!
I used red liquid electrical tape to protect the switch tabs and since the LED’s are red I hit the outside of the switch in case it would reflect a little and help reduce the black hole effect the switch creates.
What it looks like in a normally lit room. Pretty reasonable comparison to how it looks to the eye.
What it looks like in the dark. The color is a tad off, and it’s not as bright as the picture makes it look. Chalk it up to using a phone to take the pictures. There is a noticeably darker area where the switch blocks some light, but not too bad.
Here is a picture of a green tailcap setup running at 2mA. I measured the ambient light at 270 lux to give an idea what the room light level is. At 2000 lux of ambient light it’s washed out to the point where it’s not really visible. (it might be visible on a cloudy day)
Edit: Here they are, 2 greens for 2 sold lights. Slow2go has the one on the left with 5.6mA draw. Muto gets the other one with 2.1mA draw. Mode memory working on both. They’ll go in the mail today. Thanks for waiting for the results of the testing on the red LED’s, I hope you enjoy your new lights. Please post your thoughts once you get a chance to play with them.
Received the light yesterday…
Works great …. Very Bright with excellent beam control
The lit tail cap is really great. Plenty bright very visible from
across the room. Excellent addition to this great light.
Sorry it isn’t darker but I had to do these at this time.
Control
Stock
Modded #2 on the sale list
Silo down the road
Fun in the sky with stock overlay
Solo modded beam to the sky
This modded light was worth every penny.
Thanks Kloepper Knife Works
Hope pics show up good.
Enjoy!
Later,
Keith
P.S. The Shot with the beam on the Silo is 2750 ft as measure dby Google Earth and I can light up the trees past the silo whcih should be over 3000 Ft.
I am done buying throwers now, this is the one:)
