What did you mod today?

Really? How’d you do it?

It was a stiff iron pin from somewhere, chromed at first, but I heated it to orange colour with a blow torch to make the bends, then the chrome flaked off. Actually I think I could just as well have used a common nail.

That is one neat mod djozz. So simple but to me so creative. Love it.

Would that make you a chandelier? :sunglasses:

DQG Hobi UV & ZWB2 filter.

Xhere did you get your ZWB2 filter ? I can only found one cheap source for 20mm ones on GB…

That’s the ones i use, i carefully grind them into shape with a diamond wheel to fit.

I could use a 35mm, anyone know of one? I’ve got the Nichia NVSU333A in an X6 at ~ 3.6A.

Tonight I revisited my Jax X6 Hunter to fine tune focus from the MT-G2. Pulled the brass pill, removed the 20mm Noctigon and re-flowed 2 copper discs under a 25mm MaxToch mcpcb while mounting a new MT-G2. Using a tab off a large Omten switch, I extended the pads away from under the reflector. Now the reflector (having already been modifed with a square aperture to encompass the MT-G2 substrate) sits flat on the mcpcb and the hot spot is tight and clean. 11.5A at the tail from a pair of Basen 26650’s for 4571 lumens out the front. :slight_smile:

I have bought a 30mm ZWB2 filter on Aliexpress (for a UV led test rig), but have not seen 35mm yet.

djozz that is one crazy tailcap. Love it as psychedelic as it is. :slight_smile:

Thanks! It is not going to stay on my daily EDC, a bit too intrusive. I need to figure out a dedicated psychedelic mod for it :smiley:

Four color leds out the front?

hmm, you make me think, I like the idea of a quad light with a random bunch of coloured leds and the simple intl-outdoor colour driver, how about one nice high CRI white led (that is the practical boring me), a 365nm UV with small ZWB2-filter in front of that sub-TIR, and a weak-driven PC-amber led for the cosy illumination, and a cyan led, just for the colour?

nice Jos! love it! Now you’re making me want to build a crazy tailcap…… :stuck_out_tongue:

I finally got around to building my triple S2+ using triple noctigon mcpcb and xpg2 LEDs I picked up a long time ago.

A few more springs bypassed…

And I put even more finishing touches on my MTG2, 2D Maglite… Getting the reflector low enough after widening required beveling the edge of the rebel pill. Focusing is not perfect, but not terrible. Really liking some 3000lumens in a beautiful blue Maglite.

Very impressive. Have you measured the candelas? Its got to be way up in the 150k range or higher?

Convoy S2+ with a V6 3D and Dr Jones 17mm H17F w/ lucidrv2 - 7135 + FET brass button. So far 4 nice modes. Still playing with the driver.

I took a Warsun MX900 and used two tubes with Sanyo/Pan 18650GA 3500. Added 6v N4 1C XHP70 and a 22mm MTNMAX 1A-6A Buck Driver 5v-18v. Very low moon, low, med, and high. Tried the new lux meter from one foot to two foot. First time user. The moon shot was so low I took the pic looking straight at it. Lux numbers: 5-<1, 320, 1010, 1750. It got warm but I used it about 15 minutes. The moon went down as did the other levels with long use. It is much better than it was with the two modes as I remember them. There was some cheap cream under the aluminum star. I tried some gold thermal grease with the copper sinkpad. I may try the XHP 50 later (6V) or the 3B. Pics below. Thanks to everyone for your patience. Much to learn. Next learn how to program UI and Imgur for pics to get rid of the slideshow. Need more parts! lol.

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Finally got my latest Narsil 85 firmware version working last night. It now fully supports the onboard SMD LED off of pin #3 with just ON/OFF control, no PWM.

Changes:

  • primary mode sets boosted up from 8 to 12: added a 7 mode + moon (8 total) and several 3 mode varieties for different PWM levels
  • added a 2nd, Advanced Configuration UI for 4 more programmable settings:

- Locator LED function ON/OFF (LED is on when primary LED is off)

- set moonlight level, from 1 to 7 (PWM value)

- onboard LED disable/enable

- for blinking out the battery level, use only the onboard LED or both onboard LED and primary LED

I have it working in a Sunwayman C20C with an amber LED with a 750 ohm resistor, air wired, but pointing out the backside window (like the old Roche F6's). It's actually a bit too bright - projects amber light a ways, so you can actually use it in total darkness to light close up things. Still good though for a nightstand as long as it doesn't point at you.

If you are into having a locator LED in an e-switch light and being able to enable/disable the feature through the switch UI, this can do it.

Interesting you should post this now, I’m working on getting a Sunwayman C20C together to Gunga’s specs even now. I have it making ultra low moon, but he would rather have an immediate off option, instead of having to scroll through modes in either direction to get to off.

I need to know more, and probably need this Narsil 85 of yours for Gunga’s light. :slight_smile: Give me a shout please…… :wink: