What did you mod today?

It shouldnā€™t be. I bypassed all springs with high quality braid or 22awg wire and beefed up all traces with 30ga copper sheet.

Hereā€™s the data measured at different stages:
Stock BTU Shocker (XML alu mcpcb & DRY Driver):
108kcd @ 7ft
405lux Ceiling Bounce

FET & 3x XPL HI on noctigon
Installed
4.3A tailcap
197kcd
464lux

Spring Bypass, traces beefed
4.8A
247kcd
515lux

257kcd @ 35ft converted back to 1m.

I got the parts together for my second RoMiSen RC-A8 mod., boost driver and Nichia 219C for CR123A. Next is to take it apart and shorten the pill.

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Fought my fet+1 most of the day. Took a break to bake some Convoys

Overhauled one of my first 3up X6ā€™s and played around with GITD stuff applied to some optics,

This X6 had a glued Al-Heatsink, 3 badly dedomed 219B on a FET driver and additinal glass lens. Board was also glued down. I managed to force the board out. Heatsink was left in place but I drilled and tapped two holes into it to secure the board. Sanded down the 32mm board and soldered it under the new one. LEDs are 219B-V1 R9050 sw57, by the way. Sanded down the bezel a bit and now itā€™s a perfect fit without additional glass lens. While the optics are curing, I prepared a 105C based driver. Itā€™s a dual channel 11+2 AMC7135 driver now, 4.67 A max, running BLF-A6 firmware with BATTCHECK_VpT (EDIT: doesnā€™t work), 6- and 4-mode-groups, where in the 6-mode-group, 4 modes are running solely on the 2nd 2x7135-channel, in the 4-mode-group, 2 modes are 2nd channel only. Didnā€™t dare to touch the optics yet, hope theyā€™ll turn out nice.

PICS!!!

I too would like to see more pics of baked convoys. :slight_smile:

Iā€™m fine with throwing some Ultrafire cheapies in the oven, but I canā€™t bring myself to putting my convoys in there.

Yesterday I bypassed about 50 driver and tailcap springs. I had some free time. :stuck_out_tongue:

50? Wow

I thought the Clnvous have HA3
But mine are very nice in grey and mat black no need to bake them (I use the gas flames much faster then heating the whole oven)

The white smudges on the C8 is thermal past.
I am super happy with the way they came out.

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I also baked a blue convoy shorty tube, but I cant find it.

Turned out greyish blue. At one point the C8 head was grey, I took it out and it went back to black. Then It went to far to orangebrowncopper

On flames it is easy to remove with pliers

I really like your results, like old copper.

I used a cookie sheet on top rack of oven. Would like to try torching some for some effects.

On the previous page you can see my take on baking blue convoy tube, if you are stuck on blue/green tint you need more heat.

I might have to bake it some more. I would like to get to a grey color.

I did a complete mod. today. Using the driver I planned didnā€™t work out easy, so I used an old SK-68 clone driver with a new Nichia to up the output of a RoMiSen RC-A8 on CR123A.

From XP-G2 to XP-L HI 3D using the same copper PCB.
Resistor mod (R100) increased current from 1,8A to 2,9A.

Cooked in the oven for one hour.

Cool cooked job. What temp did you use ?

Did it go past orange before that color ?

I used 300ĀŗC. (max temp)

No orange color. It turned from dark brown to light brown, without orange. Tactical ring was burned with a kitchen burner.

Thanks, I used more heat, less time.

Will try another Convoy soon.

Same temp and same time, in a cheep light. It took a gold finish.

300.000 Cd running a gas dedomed direct drived XP-G2 .

EDIT: Got it working now, BLF-A6 with BATTCHECK-VpT. TK could have done that in an instant I guess, just a green quest, but for a coding newb like me, itā€™s quite an achievement. :smiley: