D.I.Y. Illuminated tailcap

Jumpers on the top ring are a great addition. For single-color tailcaps I’ve been relying on the pot’s resistance and just jumping all of the resistor pads together with a piece of copper braid, but had to be careful with the placement so it still stacked flush. A thin solder connect over such a small jumper will be much thinner. Thanks!

Ok I think I’m done with the OP for now. I tried to organize and simplify……. I think it ended up longer than before. :person_facepalming:

Oh well, at least there shouldn’t be any more dead product links.

Yes, it is much better laid out now and much more understandable. Good job!

The op looks great!

Did I read somewhere that there is a translucent boot for the s2+ metal switch boot?

There were some made, but they aren’t for sale that I know of. I had some I could send people, but I haven’t seen them since we moved.

Alternatively you can use the finger cut from a clear latex glove. It works pretty well.

Read thru the post carefully and have ordered some Rev4 & pyro1son 16mm boards. I have also ordered my LEDs, pots, resisters and translucent tail caps. I will need to hunt down or create a transparent/translucent washers. Just waiting on the slow boat at this point. I have constructed 18 Convoy C8s so far. 14 of them I gave away as gifts. The Convoy C8 hosts I used were the version 3s with the integrated aluminum shelf. The tail switch uses a Omten 1288 type switch. The switch board is 16mm x 1mm. The ring/washer is 18mm x 1.4mm. I will share my results when I have some. I would also like to appeal to pilotdog68 on the creation of a 18mm Rev 5.2.

Wouldn’t be too hard. When I was editing the OP I noticed a few holes in sizes. Give me a couple days.

Thanks in Advance!

Will the following be enough:

Any suggestions for more pcbs (any kind)?

Any other PCBs? Hmm do you want to build drivers? There are a million of them to choose from.

I still have a hundred or so translucent silicon thingies for the S2+ which I can sent out for shipping costs. Even to the US it is just $1.70 from here (long live postnl!).

(that reminds me there was a request for them that I never sent, I’ll look that up :person_facepalming: )

Thank you for updating the OP. This thread was so big that I didn’t think I would ever get around to reading it. Bought some boards and LED’s. :slight_smile:

I’m glad the OP is better now.

Stretching out a board to a larger size is usually pretty easy. I’m doing that to Rev5.2, and we already have the BIG version of 5.1. Any other sizes I should do? Most of them are purposely a little small because I don’t like having to sand off the little nubs Oshpark leaves on stuff. I account for them adding some size so I can still just drop it in the light.

edit: 18mm Rev5.2 is now in the OP

PD, is there a version coming with a larger center hole? For bigger switches and such…

Post #1064?

I might take you up on some of those depending on how I like the lighted tailcaps I already ordered.

A lot better!
I really appreciate your dedication on this :+1:

I like the nylon right mod with the metal switch, it looks clean.

I just built a lighted tailcap in my S2+ with rev 5.1 board. I had a problem with channel 3. I want to put green leds on channel 1 and 2 and red on 3. 4,7K resistors worked fine for channel 1 and 2 but on channel 3 the red was very bright. I tried to raise the resistor to 47K but nothing changed and the current stayed the same. I started searching for shorts and found that the ring positive connection is shorted to channel 3’s trace on bottom side so the resistor is shorted.

Cutted the short with an X-acto knife and it was OK.

Then I found the result with two green and one red led not really nice, and changed to six green leds.

The final version is barely visible at daylight but in dark it’s good and not disturbing. Overall current is 1,06mA. I needed the low current cause I use it in the 18350 version S2+

Where do you get clear tailcaps for the astrolux lineup (S1, S2, S41 ect.)? They are smaller then the convoy clear tailcaps I have.