What did you mod today?

Modded two Klarus XT11GT now with XHP35 HI E4-3C neutral white emitter.

15.5% brighter than the D4 XHP35HI
No donut hole and dome artifacts like the XHP35 HD
much more pleasant color and tint


left XHP35 HI E4-3C 5470-5000K on right XHP35 HD E4 6500K


I put a 219B in my brand new Thrunite Ti5T

The right button unclips the programmer from the MCU via small relays inside the box.
The left button is a forward clicky power switch.

It makes firmware development and testing much smoother. Iā€™ve been using this system for a long time but wanted another setup so I donā€™t have to keep carrying it around between my two main locations.

Klarus Mi7 with tritium switch

Titanium X6 Triple
Nichia 219C 5000K D280 80+ CRI, XP32 soldered to pill. MtnE new ver Fet +1 Bistro. bypassed SW, Ledil sanded thin and polished to fit it under AR Glass.
Refinished exterior and some work went into tube to get it smooth and uniform.





Nice :+1:
(could do with some black on it though) :laughing:

Thanks CRX,
That Mi7 looks awesome too. I really like the Trit SW and the highlights around it.

I have well over an hour in that tube getting it to present form. The tubes were knurled and I guess they werenā€™t up to par. Knurling was ground off, but still had signs of it left and not too smooth or round. Had to refinish the whole light to match. Also dropped a hot XP32 board on the floor and wasted all 3 emitters as it fell flat on the domes. I was ready to go back to bed and try getting up on the other side. Was a wake up call and another coffee later, things went better. Happy with the build.

Thatā€™s why i always butter the underside of the MCPCB :smiley:

This is the picture that goes with my earlier post : What did you mod today? - #2278 by Texas_Ace

Well after a year of collecting parts, building a few lights and generally having a great time on BLF I finally got down and dirty and knocked out some real lights.

Put together about 40 of them since the year started and I officially finished all of the lights I currently own as of yesterday. (well except for some C8ā€™s, but I am waiting for a triple setup to prototype for kiriba-ru before I build those).

I had them all out charging the cells yesterday and gave them a head count, turns out I have officially joined the Century club with over 100 flashlights (some didnā€™t make it into the picture as I kept remembering more I had stashed around the house and cars).

So with them all out I decided to take a family picture or 5:

I think I have officially exhausted my options for budget lights at this point and my collection offers everything from 17,000 lumen flood monsters to 1000m throwers. I have a trade pending for a cometa which is one light I am missing, a mid sized zoomie.

See what yaā€™ll can point out, if you have any questions about the builds feel free to ask.

One of ā€œMyā€ days that would have worked.

Still have 2 Ti-1 tube lights from Rey. May do the BC black or bluing on one of those to get it in the blocks.

Thatā€™s some going Texas_Ace :+1:

LOL, I know it is bragging but what can I say, after a year of reseach, buying and preperation to see it all come together I am a bit excited.

The issue has proven to be to actually be able to use them all!

I am quite sure that I will be reducing the quantity before long, you just canā€™t use this many at once. Although it makes for one fun picture to have them all in one place at least once.

Impressive TA !

Thatā€™s a very interesting collection , especially the fact that most of the lights (should) have your drivers in there (and the fact you built them all of course) :wink:

Yeah, they are all modded with the exceptions of the few cheap little 9xled lights and the nitenumen ne01. Most of which have TA drivers as well (which is why I built them in the first place lol).

Added a momentary side switch and magnetic tail.

The light now works by pressing the side switch or tailcap for momentary on function or as a normal twisty for extended use in lower modes.

Just for grins I modded one of my Thrunite TN42ā€™s with a XHP70 P2-1C FETDD Vishay sir800 18awg leads (+) off driver spring,Custom made driver adapter, SD75 mcpcb 12.27amps at the LED, GITD finsā€¦ā€¦GITD switch locator in middle lanyard holeā€¦. :cowboy_hat_face:

Thatā€™s pretty sick!
Any lux numbers?

Started on a copper heat sink for an SRK. The cylinder was .5 mm copper sheet and the heat plate 1.8mm copper. Iā€™m pleased with how itā€™s going, the 15mmL x 41mm D is both nicely round and flat even though hand wrought and brazed. With a MtnE FET+1 driver it will need it. The other item is a 1.4A driver modded for bistro. 1 chip is segregated and jumpered to pin 5 and each of the other 3 doubled up. Also a cap bridging pins 2&4 for OTC. Basically a bistro compatible single sided board thatā€™s regulated. The host is a sweet little grey S2+ modded to a 16650 triple 219C but at xx500 length. Wood tube of course. Iā€™ve shown it before but finally close to finishing it. I didnā€™t want to give up retaining ring convenience and none of the 3-4 chip drivers are set up for plus one firmware.

where did you got your GITD stuff and how to get it on the flashlight that way

Dome on, reflector .020ā€ off the board with plasti-shim, no centering ring 238kcd.

Will be making a correct centering ring out of Delrin and shaving it later, just ran out of time! Saved all the stock parts, didnā€™t want to alter the stock ring.

It was a bit of a PITA build! :smiley: