Sounds like a “great” day Mike .
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:
Sounds like a “great” day Mike .
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
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.
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
I was being clumsy AF yesterday for no good reason. I dropped batteries a whole bunch of times and ended up denting a couple. Fortunately they were from my oldest set of Eneloops.
Broke the end off a 7135 chip on a 5-chip custom 105d driver, apparently by cranking down too hard on a driver retaining ring.
I suspect it was already cracked as I was tightening the retainer trying to restore proper behavior, it had quit working reliably.
Oops.
My Ice Maker broke itself today. Luckily I took out P.C. Richards’ 10 year warranty. Totally worth the $300 I spent. My warranty runs out in May of 2022.
Broke a leg from a AMC7135 in my attempt to bend and add to a driver, plus cracked a glass while assembling my S2+ triple. I guess I’m supposed to remove the glass when using the triple tir optics
My air conditioner broke today
And it’s 40 C today…
Broke my smartphone, a Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo. Fell from my hand when I was fetching it off the hanging workpants during break time, when I was going to check my tracking codes (for a new Convoy S2 and a pair of Wii-Mote controllers)
But to be fair, I had already lost hope for it: the firmware didn’t update past Android Kit-Kat so I could hardly use the SD card storage, the outer host was all chipped paint, I couldn’t connect it to the PC as an external USB device (took forever to load, then failed), the screen had cracked under the protection, the silicone cover I put on it fell to desiccated pieces months ago, it sometimes crashed so hard it reset completely, and the battery was so worn, anything below 30% meant basically no charge at all. It was a trooper, but it’s been officially 3 years since I got it, and it was time to retire the old soldier ( v_v)7
Tonight, after I give my presentation for the final uni paper, I’m headed off to get a Motorola
I broke the power supply for my Raspberry Pi. :cry:
Today i have learned the hard way that you always have to be careful with a soldering iron!
While solder blobbing brand new (my first 26650’s) i accidently shorted one (which gave a nice spark) because i had the big part/edge of the iron too close to the edge of the cell, that made the wrap melt, all because i forgot the size, im used to 18650’s probably, which never gave problems.
Cell is ok, need to rewrap it.
Try this on for size: I was messing with the hidden menu of my 46” flat screen TV…hit the wrong button and bricked it! Won’t even turn on or anything!
Solution: Buy new motherboard for TV…$240!
Not a bad price for a TV repair considering, but a TERRIBLE price to pay for just poking buttons on the remote!