What did you mod today?

My only remaining Courui D01 also uses 25R’s, it’s making 545Kcd with an XP-L HI for 1476.48M throw.

Not liking myself for selling the SBT-70 D01.

(gotta see if I can tweak it for that remaining 436 feet to make a mile. :smiley: LG HE-4’s will probably do it. :wink: )

Edit: Best is actually from Efest 35A’s in this light, at 557.5Kcd for 1493.32M. Still some 381 feet shy of that elusive mile. Oh well.

Today I swapped the emitter of my Olight S-mini :

Lol…you made someone a very happy camper though. You were able to spread your joy elsewhere. My edc has been the X5 since I received it and it probably will be for a long time.

545kcd using xp-l hi ? Sweet .

Also , anyone using the 86mm KD reflector in his D01 ?

How did you focus your D01 for that throw?

Yeah, that little quad is a pretty dang sweet light, for sure. Dang sure won’t be picking one up at Wally’s World anytime soon… :laughing:

Nothing yet but it is still early...

I cheated unknown. The “Big Head” Courui is now the Mega Fat Head Courui. :smiley:

153mm Seanna optic.

Ohh i remember now :smiling_imp:

Shame Shame Shame. :wink: :stuck_out_tongue:

I need to tweak mine. It was such a pain for me to mod it when I finally got it all together and properly centered I just left it. Low 200kcd’s iirc. Really disappointing for a FET XPL-HI in a Courui D01.

CQG Carbon Fibre

I recharged the batteries completely in these 5 and measured again. The only other change was that I removed a rather tall centering ring from the Courui, but it didn’t make much difference. It was one of my earliest mods, and I have a feeling I just need to completely rebuild and update it. Any tips on where best focus is? Right now the reflector is directly on the mcpcb. Not sure if I need to raise it up more or sand some off the reflector.

Marked improvement in the L2 with a charged cell.
Here are the numbers:

  • Nitecore TM16 - 105kcd > 111kcd
  • Solarstorm SP03 - 236kcd > 255kcd
  • Courui D01 - 231kcd > 239kcd
  • Brinyte B158 - 230kcd > 243kcd
  • Convoy L2 - 130kcd > 194kcd

Sweet mod CRX !
I sit a wrap or did you fit the CQG into a carbon fibre tube ?

Thanks. It’s a 14mm od x 12mm id carbon fibre tube, i just cut the pieces and epoxied on.
I always felt the S2 was just a bit too thin & slippery - much better now.

10180 & 10250 battery charger

Great work one more time CRX … Very very nice charger :beer:

Cheers mate :beer:

I know it was discussed, but didn't see your answer. What is the distance you are measuring from?

I use 5m but I try to always mention it. I've measured/seen improvements when I've measured same lights, same cell levels outdoors at over 10m.

I was measuring the full length of my living room, 26ft

OK - really hard to gauge on such a small sample of known light configurations. You are in the ballpark I would suspect. My original meter, LX1330B, doesn't need a calibration factor - it always seemed bout right, and matched up to other multiple meters on the same light. But I did buy a 2nd one from an eBay source, cheaper than elsewhere, and it's pretty consistent at 5% under the original meter. The LX1330B has been proven to be pretty consistent so I suspect the source of where I bought it.

I'd check with others, maybe reviews, who measured the TM16 and compare. Manufacturers specs are frequently off - look at ThruNite's TN42 as an example, plus ThruNite has always been consistently low in their throw specs. Modded lights have too many variables - biggest is actual amps to the LED, LED itself, and LED positioning, replaced lens, etc. Batteries, wires, etc. all factor in to amps at the LED.