Paging those who've modded their DRY's:
Got my warm from Chicago X and it's insane! Wonderful tint... question is, I opened 'er up and there's a big fat resistor in there wired to the original driver. (old H-L-S)
If I choose to change it out, can the resistor stay or go? Anyone know why it's there? I'd like to get rid of it but don't wanna smoke anything. Probably gonna leave well alone with my luck-light is fine as it is-but I'm too curious to not ask here!
Rich
I have the NW with step down driver and there's no bif fat resistor attached to mine that ive seen!
Please post a picture. I have changed my driver a couple times and there is no resistor in mine. I am 100% sure of this.
Hi Dorpmuller...I just received my Dry NW with auto-stepdown feature. I opened it up and there is no resistor. If you replace your present driver with the newer driver version (L-M-H-Turbo), the resistor would be removed.
Perhaps something that X may have added himself?
Nope, he didn't... I PM'ed him before I posted here.
I got everything back together and I'm gonna leave well alone, so I don't wanna tear into it again for a pic. It's a fat wirewound with some kind of thermal padding around it.
The light is still extremely bright, so I think I'd have smoke if I did remove it.
Rich
I have one of the old L-H-Strobe drivers, and a newer L-M-H-Turbo 200 Hz one. Neither has any wirewound resistor on it. But I think I remember that the original CW model of the Dry was supposed to draw more battery current than the original NW and/or WW. Maybe the resistor is a current-limiting resistor and was used only with the WW model?
If that's true, there would have to be a reason why the WW LED couldn't take the same current as the CW LED. I don't know what that reason might be though.