I have a U1 (UV365).
I wanted to change the led by a Nichia 365, was not possible to remove the old glue (epoxi type).
I had to change the pill, it is the same as the Convoy S2+
I really like it but as long as it is glued I will not buy it, sorry.
jaxman
10x for your efforts about that, it seems to be a lovely torch indeed, will post again when i got it
Yet, i was wondering, meanwhile would you be so kind to post here a close detailed photo of those S4 1A emitters ? They could end up being from the “gold ones”….woah :sunglasses:
Lol, I bought one with 1A emitters, just to be replaced, I did think about them as being potentially one of the ‘good’ XP-G2’s. I will post a picture, Mitko!
Yeah, but the idea here is to help manufacturers educate the folks they hire to build the flashlights — since we can’t talk with the builders directly.
And sometimes the manufacturers miss little things and we early adopters mention them. So I’m suggesting too much thermal goop as worth checking on.
It’d help to know what’s “special” about the thermal goop they’re using, and to hear that they understand how very little of it ought to be used.
I do hope it’s silicon based. I spent several hours removing a LED star epoxied down to a light once, tried heat, freezing, and enough prying that I eventually split the star into 2 separate halves, both still epoxied down.
Aw, shucks. They designed it to be uninteresting to folks like us.
What, they can’t imagine a better emitter coming along anytime, ever, that we’d like to swap in??
Hm. Well, it’d be nice if they’d offer one that’s not glued down, for those of us who expect the improvements in emitters to continue over coming years.
I can see that they’d rather sell entire flashlights as new emitters come along.