Djozz those blues look very nice. Where did you find all those shades? Adding an LTC to my TG06 is on my to-do list. I hadn’t before because they draw was too much for a 14500 (in my mind) but the new “ring” boards should be perfect.
Today I did my first-ever “resistor mod” on my Thorfire S70. It jumped from 4amps to 9amps at the tail. It’s a real show-stopper now.
I bought a bag with 100 0603 leds ‘blue mix’ from ebay. I had to try every led before use, it was some effort to sort out the ones with the right colour and brightness.
I prepped a Maglite 2D for an H22A heatsink, mtg2, and a 5A MTNMAX driver. Changed the stock switch over to negative (thanks OL!). Glued the led on and glued the copper positive contact. Phew that was a lot of work.
Just have to pot and install the driver, solder some wires, and mess with that gigantic spring. I suppose I’ll need some killer 26650… Maybe 32650’s to power this beast.
What browser are you using? I just checked after I read your post, and it looks like the images are gone if I use Firefox, but ok if I use Chrome. Looking at View Source, the links to the images are still there in both cases (Firefox and Chrome), so I don’t know why the images are not showing in Firefox.
EDIT: And in IE, the images are broken icons (which is ironic, since I host the images at onedrive).
On the video there you can see first it turns red.
And well we have ths ugly ultrafire with a red bezel.
Who would put a red bezel there? I would have never bought it, a AE seller thought he could send it instead of the one I ordered that he has run out of.
So I removed everything and put it on the gasflame
When the head was red I took it out and continued with the rest.
And when it looked like it would fit nicely with the red head, turned off the fire.
It now looks much better imho and it was a very nice experiment.
The head actually looks little more red then on the pic.
The tube is really, really nice looking shining bronze, REALLY beautifull! (Hope you picked up on the fact that I really like this color ;))
Does anybody now what causes this color change?
Time, well but does that A- mean it gets hotter B- at a certain temp the change starts and progresses till temp is lowered
A meaning with controlled temp the nice bronze color could be achieved without the risk of pushing it beyond towards the beige and even grey (I would love to have the alu X5/X6 in this shiny bronze color, but not in grey.)
No we were just amazed by the changing color, totally forgot to measure the temp /insert face palm/
I hope somebody knows a little more about this process, I find not a lot googling on the phone now.
I’m thinking of doing the top portion only of my new TR-J20, it needs some character. What do you guys think about just doing the top part that is flat and says Trustfire, it unscrews from the finned area. Whoa! Or maybe just do the finned area and leave the top and battery section black….
Can you try viewing that post again in Firefox and in IE. It should work now with Chrome, Firefox, and IE. I think that the latter two didn’t like the image links being SSL. It’s post #144 in the thread (What did you mod today? - #140 by ohaya).