Hy,
here is my mod of the NiteCore TM36 Lite for a friend from the netherlands The light is powered by a Luminus SBT-70 and is stock one of the strongest flashlights on the market. But that is not enough! So plans had to be made. Finally the only prerequisites were max. throw and a minimum of one mode
First the light had to be disassembled. This was pain in the ass because the driver consists of several PCB, LCD, charging port. I was lucky to push the contact board of the light with a screw driver. But even after that i was sometimes stuck. So with a little help of Vinh i got the light disassembled.
The LED is soldered to the copper pill
Driver is still working
After 6 hours it finally looked like this
So the mod could start. We decided to use a LD2-M2 6A driver with dedomed XP-G2 S2 1D - pretty simple mod i think. First the pill was modified by a friend of mine with a lathe to exactly fit the Noctigon MCPCB in size and height.
Pill before mod
Pill after mod
Extreme flat contacts
The complete pill
LD2-M2 6A is glued with Artic silver to the pill. The driver is running UI2. The eSwitch from the original driver was used and works like a charm.
Reflector about 3,5m away
The centering of the LED was a pain, too. This took almost 2 hours. Do you recognize the man watching the mod?
Complete light
The TM36 has a slightly bigger reflector (1mm) compared to the EagTac M25C2 Turbo. But the reflector is not as smooth as the EagTac one.
The OLED display does not work any more.
After some final beamtuning i got 13170 Lux at 8m, which is ~842 KLux@1m/Kcd or 1836m range
Finally beamshots
Distance to the bowl is 529m. Nikon P100, 1 Sek, f=3,2, ISO800
Controlshot
And 26x Zoom - Nikon P100, 1/1,6 Sek, f=5, ISO800
And an animated GIF. You can see here that the TM36 is a bit stronger than the EagTac M25C2 Turbo (~790 Klux@1m).
This light is a real beast. It is the strongest reflector based light i modded so far. Sadly the owner in the netherlands is waiting for it. It was a really tricky and time consuming mod but the results are great!
Regards
Kenjii