I think there's quite a few here that deserve their own threads as well.
I'm planning a "Poor Man's M43" build, but it's not so "poor" when you start adding up all of the emitters, & then realize that they could all go "pop"
I reflowed an XM-L2 5C onto a DTP board and put it into my Kronos X6. The tint is great, and the beam pattern is perfect.
I modded my B158.
I swapped in an XP-L HI 3B reflowed onto a Sinkpad, added 22 gauge wire, a MTN-17DDm driver, lighted tailcap, and bypassed springs.
That was my second reflow ever, and I’m so happy I didn’t mess it up!
I painted the top of the pill a flat black to minimize any artifacts (Thanks pilotdog68 for the paint brand!). Man is it hard to use that stuff without ruining the finish.
I get 5.5-7 amps at the tail from it, and 169600cd. So about 824 meters of throw.
It is a Remington Standard, it does not say 12” anywhere but perhaps the 16 means it is a 16” ?
Found it on the street 10 years ago, still works, my son finds it much fun, he is just starting learning to read!
S2+ with a qlite (mtne) + 7 7135s (double) 16mm XHP50 U4 1C 2 keeppower 750s. You can’t keep it on high very long but it sure will give you a laugh. L/MedHigh/TurboHigh. A LOT of light. I am still laughing. Carry some batteries for backup! File, file, and file the driver retaining ring. Everyone should have at least one.
I learned to type on one of those, over 40 years ago. The letters were worn off the keys, still have it as a matter of fact. Now I have to go look to see if it was a Remington or an Underwood….
I’m having a hard time not to write something like: if you show me yours ……….
I found it somewhere eating dust and disassembled and cleaned every last detail of it.
Then I lend it to my kid-brother so he could write his thesis. Got it back a short while ago.
Apparently he could not be bothered to put a cloth over it :person_facepalming: :rage:
I tried a 219C on a filed Noctigon in my Olight S2…that was a fail !
Artifacts everywhere in the beam, the TIR does not focus the light properly
So I swapped the stock CW emitter for a nice warm T4-7A and called it a day…
No MCPCB at all, it’s just a bare LED with a tiny copper block soldered onto the thermal pad & rigid wires directly to the emitter.
Stuffed a bit of that silicone cube stuff around it too but there’s really not much current to cause much heat. I should have took pics and measured current, but i didn’t :laughing:
This one was a little more difficult, i accidently dedomed the XR-C while working on it so i’ve covered it with UV setting glass glue for protection.
I’m obviously running out of lights to mod, down to nitecore tubes now… :laughing:
I just fried a dedomed xpg2 (I hope it was just the LED….). I spent the last few hours modding a UF-1508 aspheric with a dd xpg2 and a 5.5A MTNMAX driver. The 1508 has a bit of an odd pill and a threaded parabolic piece that screws down onto the mcpcb. After several failed attempts at getting the LED leads soldered flat enough I switched over to flat copper sheet. It worked eventually, just a pain to work with such tiny pieces of metal. So I screw down the securing piece to secure the mcpcb and I think to myself “don’t forget to pull this back off before testing”……… I hook up the driver pop in two cells and a flash of light followed by utter disappointment as I instantly realized my mistake. :person_facepalming: