I got my meter, but the stupid fuse is blown, must have happened at work…. So the question now is, Harbor Freight or Home Depot? I saw in the Home Depot deal alerts thread that somebody found a Klein auto-ranging meter on clearance, I wonder if I might get lucky.
You could just put some diffuser film or tape on the lens if you’re happy with the output. Or you could get an orange peel effect on the reflector with some spray polyurethane. I don’t know how that would work if allowed to get really hot though. I don’t know if replacement reflectors will be available…
Jeeze, might be less work to do a triple, haha. I bet the diffuser tape would work pretty well though.
The problems that occur in flashlights are pretty standard. It would be helpful to have them listed but more important is getting to know how flashlights and drivers work since that basic knowledge can be generalized to diagnose most problems.
The picture you posted shows a copper KX5 — were you starting by hammering on a clip that came on the copper light?
So far, near as I can tell (not very well) it’s the clips on the aluminum KX5s that are too tightly bent; the earlier pictures of the copper light clips were consistently OK, unsquashed.
Just checking before I take out the hammer, since a followup reported breaking a clip by trying that.
Might be the clips on the copper vs. the aluminum lights are consistently differently made — too small a sample yet to know.
Might need to anneal it first then retemper it after to prevent breakage. Forcing it to bend otherwise would weaken it I think. Maybe a non issue, maybe not.
I wasn’t on BLF since wednesday and didn’t check this thread for 2 or 3 more days…and…841 new posts :_( .It takes longer to skim the new posts on this thread than ALL of the (potentially interesting)other threads’ recent posts!
Can I assume that anything important will be added to the OP?I see the UI is there and something about the mixed up s/n’s in the unboxed ss/cu lights.
Dale…you talk too much :bigsmile:
To add to the unimportant posts on the thread: “Origin post is preparing shipment. We have received notice…” I ordered on the 29th and it says shipped. You think it’s coming or even in the country or did I wait til to near the year of the monkey?
The no 176 of 400 arrived here on Finland. Not bad delivery time for normal registered post.
I’ll have to nitpick that my X6 has a embedded fingerprint on the copper heatsink I guess that somebody was quite impatient and touched the part while the lacquer wasn’t completely dry. I’ll have to try my luck stripping the finish and shining it up, or just strip the finish and let it get some patina. Haven’t decided yet.
Otherwise the both lights arrived in pretty good condition. The X5 had couple small nicks and dents but nothing too bad. It also had some white residue on the battery tube but I got it mostly cleaned up.
Thanks for the organisers for delivering these awesome lights. These are absolutely my prettiest and heftiest lights
Hi. Not sure what you’re asking chouster. It is the short 18350 tube that was for the Eagle Eye X6 light. Not sure if it works in both directions, I only tried it one way and it worked.
Heat sink reflowed into the head while reflowing the Noctigon to the heatsink while re-flowing the LED’s to the Noctigon. All re-flowed together simultaneously, done deal.