What did you BREAK today?

Ooh with 30°C in the shade breaking sweat is what I do now

One of those small but terribly useful bones in my ankle.

:confounded:

Be careful with those and take it seriously!!
I broke one thirty years ago and didn’t recover fully. Seriously!

I broke my Opus BT-C100 lol

LMAO, you should send that video to gearbest

Paypal told me they’d give my money back if I sent it back to GearCrap. Sending a $12 item back to China’s got to cost around $10 or more. I sent GearCrap a message to cancel my account.

Update: GearBest gave me my money back. I guess that video worked.

Well it survived for a half a year, maybe a bit more but it happened, forgot the flashlight on turbo with reflector side down for about a minute, stepdown was kicked in so for sure it was more than 45 seconds. Its okay tho, everything else survived.

FYI 30Q was inside, fresh off the charger, so this was running at 9A at the time of accident :smiley:

Dang
Friday our internet modem went crazy
Lost connection
The night before big thunderstorm
But we have a surge protect build in where the electricity comes in
And vital stuff powered by extension cords with surge protection as well (the phone line also loops through it)
So I figured must be somewhere at ISP.
Called and tomorrow somebody comes to check it out

But some bamboo has shoot up in a hedge that in itself has grown really high as well.
So armed with a bunch of different saws I started trimming things down
Putting the branches at the start of the driveway (close to where I was cutting)
In the evening a pile was formed
2 meters at the highest 5 meter at the longest.
I was tired so planned on putting it on the campfire place Saturday

Woke up Saturday with a small red disc on the skin and some irritation. Inside leg 5 cm above the knee.
It became bigger, hard, hot and painful.
In the evening painful to walk and stretch.

When bending and using force with the leg it was painful pretty short after waking up.

Must be a insect of plant.

Drank a bunch of herb tea my wife made, against inflammation and to force lots of peeing.
Used some oils to help it

So had a couple of toilet visits this night to empty the bladder.
Every time my leg was more painful
But when waking up and getting up it was a little less painful
And the hard warm red is not getting bigger today.

So my leg is kind of broken and that pile of branches (some size of small trees) is still there
It needs to be removed because no car can enter or leave now.
Will just repeat the teas and oils from yesterday and do it tomorrow.
(And dang even calendula oil does not stop the itching argh)

I used some JB weld to make a non solid pill a little more solid. I put a brand new MT-G2 on 20mm Noctigon over it with some oil as releasing agent under, but the releasing agent didn’t do anything because the JB-weld crept through the wire holes of the MCPCB and basically welded it in. Some of it stuck to the dome of the LED so I gave slicing the dome off a try, but I only ended up ripping the whole dome off… The pill was to messy to keep so it went in the bin together with the MT-G2 :frowning:

Sounds like a “great” day Mike :frowning: .

My soldering station shorted out when I was changing the tip, but I did save the receipt so I returned it to the local shop were I brought it and got a new one for free :+1:

Broke my trusty Ti3 because I put a 10440 in it and left it on moonlight all night long. I thought I had turned it off but instead it was on moonlight. Now none of the other modes work either. Thinking about replacing it with a K18.

I should take you under private arrest for such a crime. Nobody breaks my favorite light and gets away with it! :rage:

jk. What about replacing it with an Astrolux A01?

First try shaving an old XM-L (to keep its 1A tint)
I have used two 0.9mm drills as guide, the wires seemed ok, but i have cut some phosphor on one corner, i suppose pressure have bended the razor blade.

Result: no working LED

I think i will stay with gas dedoming method.

I just rested my solder on a piece of plastic on a headlamp i was working on. Great!

Fiber optics

  • Get some fiber optics from your local hobby shop.
  • Drill 3 holes in the side of the body tube of your light in a neat row near your driver the same width as the fiber optic.
  • Cut 3 pieces of fiber optic, one for each LED.
  • Glue one end of a fiber optic to the top of one of the small LEDs with Norland 61.
  • Glue the other end into the hole in your body tube.
  • Repeat for all 3 LEDs. The fiber optics will channel the light to the holes in the body tube. From the outside of the light it should look like the LEDs are mounted on the body rather than the driver.

OPTIONAL: Having the fiber optics glued to both the battery tube and the driver would make it impossible to easily remove the driver. Instead maybe press-fit the fiber optics into the holes in the body tube. Add a transparent window above or below the holes to prevent the optics from accidentally being pushed out.

Window - Instead of fiber optics maybe just add a small window to the light near the driver. Many lights use this method.

  • Drill a hole in the body tube near the driver.
  • Glue a lens over the hole. If you don’t want to see inside, use a frosted lens.

I just burned a hole in my computer chair while fine tuning the thermal control for my astrolux S1. A bit ironic, isn’t it? I put down the light head first and the synthetic fabric began smelling funny within 10 seconds. Removed the light and there was a nice round hole to the foam. I didn’t know that stuff melted so easily.

Broke a nanjg 105d driver trying to swap the MCU. I don’t actually know if it’s totally gone, but I lost 2 solder pads in the process. Plus I might have damaged the driver retaining ring on my c8 to the point I might never be able to unscrew it again without causing some damage to the host

I broke a glass vase today, dropped from a high shelf. The momentum was strong, sending tiny sharp pieces all over the place, making the floor a death trap. It would have been a special kind of hell to clean up the mess without missing a tiny piece.

But I had my light, X45 is my savior! A sixteen thousand lumen of salvation!

The floor was instantly filled with hundred thousands of twinkling little diamonds, and I collected every single one of them without a hassle.

Nice use of your light! Almost makes me want to start breaking some glass :smiley: