My First Real Mods/Builds

Nice mods! Great tint on that C8, looks CW and not greenish at all.

I’d say that was quite a bit more then a spring bypass :open_mouth: Looks like you’re a natural modder. My modding experience was removing a reflector from a light once.

thanks for sharing, it encourages the faint at heart.

Thanks guys,

Yes the tint is a cool white on the C8 but not quiet as cool or bluish as the photos show. I didn’t adjust anything on the pictures from the beamshots, so they are as the camera captured them, and not exactly as my eye sees them (although fairly close), the Small Sun is a very good neutral white.

Thanks for posting. I plan on attempting a C8 build in the future. Do you remember you camera settings ?

It is a point and shoot camera (Fuji 14mp), I just set it for night time shots and use tripods.

I don’t have a clue what the setting would be.

Well you did a good job on the photographs. If you check the properties of the photo it should tell you camera settings.

I would like to see the settings for the pics with the gates.

Nice job on these mods :slight_smile: i have the same Thorfire C8, but have not modded it yet.

Doh I knew that brain dead ATM I guess………

here ya go….

4608x3440
600 dpi
Bit depth 24

ISO-200
focal length 6mm
Max apeture 3.44
Brightness –4.67
Landscape Mode

It is a good one to mod, the one I have came with the solid screw out pill in it, I have heard they were putting a pill with a hole in the middle of it for awhile.

Got you PM. I m very impressed what these C8’s will do. I am working on a shopping list right now.

Did you dedome the LED yourself ? Thinking I might just get a HI version.

I have dedomed a few LED’s, but I got these from Richard at Mtnelectronics already dedomed on the boards.

Be sure if you do order from him you check the box for it to be dedomed at the bottom of the image if you are in fact wanting a dedomed emitter.

Great mods. The small sun is one of those lights that has all kinds of possibilities.

nice mods, looks great!

Sweetness!!! Can definitely see the difference. The beamshot at 175yrds looks a bit like daylight. Sure you didn’t call on the sun gods to help you in that shot?!??

Nice work. Fun, isn’t it?

It is satisfying to see the results in the end for sure pilot.

Getting there can be a hair pulling experience at times though when you just kind of winging it……lol

The attention to detail shows in the beam shots. I have found that I really like working with the KD C8. If you are looking for a host, they have a complete light for 10 bux with brass pill. They have a good selection of reflectors for XM and XP emitters in smooth and LOP. I actually like to run a de-domed XP-G2 with a LOP reflector so that there is some usable light outside of the pencil beam.

Good focus and good work in general, keep up the good work.

Thanks for the info matt, have plenty of C8’s ATM but I will keep those in mind. Right now I have plans to put a dedomed XP-G2 S2 2B in my XinTD V5 C8 with FET and guppydrv , already got the spring bypass done on the tail end and waiting on parts. I think it will give me a heck of a throw, although I don’t know what kind of spill I will get with it.

A de-domed XP-G2 4C, yes I said 4C. I like warm light, I maybe should have used a 3C since it is a bit yellow.

Warm is ok with some of my lights but in a thrower I prefer to have a neutral if I can end up with that, just my personal preference.