Been under the weather lately, but I do have a Luckysun F3X on the way to the house. gonna see what I can do with the thing. the 1500 lumens it’s rated at seem very underpowered for 3 xml2’s. Who knows, may have a triple xhp-50 on my hands here soon!
I’ve always thought the F3X was interesting. I’ll look forward to what you do with it.
Just got done stacking a bleeder resistor for my B158 build. Not too bad for a cell-phone camera, eh?
Had one of THESE from Kaidomain and had to drill the driver to get the head unscrewed. Some threadlock and time on a radiator heater, plus the two holes in the driver finally allowed me to get into it.
Used the 3B XML2 on aluminum and the 6x7135 3+5 mode driver leftovers from one of my triple hosts to mod this into a little 16340 flooder…
Actually a nice in your sweat pants pocket light, though who knows how long the switch will last at 2A. Fun spare parts build from what I thought would be a good host for $6.
Modded my blue S2+ from XP-L HI to an XHP50 with an rather antique BLFDD-Z, with both sides populated and the big old FET. This driver has been in 4 different hosts before and works as good as when it was new, bought from Richard more than a year ago.
First problem was fitting the driver into the pill, it was impossible since the components are way too out. So I used a blank 17mm board to make a sandwich and used thermal adhesive to keep them together.
First we solder the XHP50 on noctigon directly to brass pill.
Making the sandwich
Negative contacts. Spring was removed and replaced by a bass pill to save space for the 2x18350s.
Driver in place
Using stock XM centering ring
The result? A flood monster that draws 5.2A on turbo and in close range puts all of my other tube lights to shame, including triple XP-L builds. The only exception is that I can only use turbo for 10 seconds tops, but totally worth it. 
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Came home and used a proper multimeter, charged 18350s to full and tested again… Got 6.71A off the tail! I guess that’s nearly 50watts if the cells dropped to 3.7V. 
I didn’t know the XHP50 pulled this much.
Ceiling bounce test:
Olight S10 max (rated 500lm): 27
BLF D80 turbo 3.8A: 59
Triple XP-L HI DD in copper sinner 9.2A: 135
XHP50 S2+ 6.7A: 152
This thing is really insane, and even if I only use it for 10 seconds the heat will actually come out after it’s been turn off.
Weird how a 1 year old driver can be regarded as antique :-)
Nice mod and really good pictures, everything looks well done and I like the blue host for the XHP50.
Well, what can i say… WOW, this one should put to shame a lot flashlights for those 10 seconds of run time on turbo mode, what is the calculated output on turbo? 3000+ lumens maybe?
I am working on Streamlight Waypoint upgrade
today i had to mod/repair my dmm, since it wouldn’t measure high amps with the 10A setting.
when taking the dmm apart i saw that the traces on the pcb was broken, might have happened when i shorted a samsung 30Q instead of reading the voltage :zipper_mouth_face:
so i had to solder a thick wire to make up for the broken traces. afterwards my BLF A6 still was 4.95A on turbo, and my BLF D80 was still 2.7A on turbo as well, so i think the repair turned out well.
my rechargeable flashlight suffered corrosion damage around the switched charging jack so I replaced it with a panel mount type wired to a tp4056 usb charging board.
All I did was to take the XM-L CW out and installed an XM-L2 3C on Noctigon. Noticed an increase in output and a much better tint. I really like the form of this light, almost a tube light but not quite! This is in prep for changing the driver, maybe…
Great thread idea! Saw a mini mag tail modification I hadn't seen before and thought I'd give it a try. Essentially the tail threads are cut off and replaced with a press fit plug with a spring soldered to it. This works as long as the light is modded Match style because the battery can be loaded or removed via the front of the battery tube. Of course I had to do it micro style.
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I “finished” my B158 build today. I painted the pill top in flat black to cut down some reflections in the beam, and bypassed the tail spring. I have “finished” in quotations because it’s only finished for a couple weeks. Once my 20mm boards arrive from Oshpark, it will be the first recipient of my Rev4 lighted tailcap.
I modded my Novatac switch for momentary-off. Super simple. Now I need a driver and LED for it…
I took the driver out of my BLF A6 again, and put it into my Novatac Special ops
twist on button changes modes.
Super easy convoy C8 mod, XPL HI V2 1A, FET+1 A6 driver and coated glass. It’s quite a thrower! With my light meter calibrated at 250kcd with the M3XS UT, this C8 supposedly does 115kcd.
Convoy deep carry clip on BLF A6 
Cut up two minimags and reamed the ends for brass inserts. Silver one gets red enamel wood handle and black one something else. Tail switch mods but both stay with primaries. Maybe terralux LEDs.
I only filed the front of the bezel ring of a stainless steel AAA light, where it was uncomfortably square and sharp.
Put a 1A driver (AK-47C 3x7135) set up on three modes into a TG06 after filing it down to fit. Used an extra 5A XPL from my bare BLF A6 (7A XPL HI in it now) and made a nice EDC14500 light out of it… I have been enjoying less than max amps builds lately…