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The stock boss is driven at 2,4A on high. I removed everything from driver and use it as a contact board. Then put it in it’s box for later when I have a lathe. My plan is to put in 3 convoy C8 smooth reflectors with XPL-HI leds driven with a fet driver. and on the edge between the C8 reflectors there will be 3 orange peel S2+ reflectors with XPL or XM-L2 leds driven by another fet driver. I measured the diameters. Fit every six reflector nicely without overlapping. And because the new ones not as deep as the original. I can replace the thin shelf with a realy thick aluminum plate. Ther will be two electronic switch on the side of the head to operate the throw and flood mode separately. :disappointed: :sunglasses:

Seems like a complicated project. Good luck on your lathe. i got mine barely a year ago and it was quite alot of learning and tuning just to fix it and running. Then there was the tooling and sourcing of the materials …… Mastering the lathe can be a bigger challenge to overcome than the flashlight itself. :weary:

I learnt and used manual lathe when I learned CNC lathe and mill programming and using. But the flasaholism come later when I had no access to school lathes any more. So basically I can use it just need to collect the money for a good one. I almost finished designing the parts for the mod too.

I got a budget 4”chuck full 7x14” minilathe which is the most commonly available ,ample bed length is very important after tailstock takes a chunk of space out. The better lathe i know of is the brushless ones which cost 40% more. i choose the non brush model so i can spend the 40% savings on complete toolings and quickchange post etc. With more budget, i would prefer those Seig brushless integrated mill lathe which is very useful for side milling after turning operations but will costs 3x more.

Where are you buying the BOSS1 from nowadays? It's out of stock all over.

I got palight directly from china , but they communicate in chinese. I would think its best for most to wait for gearbest restock or other reputable online sellers to get them.

I won it on a giveaway half year ago on a hungarian forum.

This soumds like an interesting project Zozz. One of my favourite lights is using 3 x C8 reflectors with XML2 leds.

Any news on this light?

In german forum they modded with a dedomed XML2 and XPG2 and got both LEDs to 400kcd

And 330 and 500 lux/lumen

I have one. And I have big plans but too many plans at the same time and no lathe and money :disappointed:

That's pretty poor results. I got over 700 kcd on a dedomed XPL in mine. I blew a de-domed XM-L2 U4 because of too much current. This thing is huge, and on a good de-dedomed XP-G2, it should hit over 800 kcd.

400 kcd is wayyyyy low.

I found the mod that figure comes from, he used a dedomed warmwhite XML2 T5 high CRI LED

Sure with XML2 U4-1A dedomed you get a lot more lumens and throw

This still available anywhwre?

Not that I know of. I've looked - not in stock mostly from the places that used to sell them. If the threads were done better, I'd recommend them, but the threads are awful, similar to $3 (small) to $12 (larger) low budget lights. Even that is generous.

awful, but till now working :laughing:

BOOSII(link is external)

This light is not worth buying unless the threads are improved. Yes, it is a pure throwr, it can have a loong runtime, but the threads are silly. They are not going to last.

It's a mini BOSS - they shrunk it, which effectively kills the advantage the BOSS1 had. With only 3 26650's and the head diameter to match, it's got to be smaller -- ahh, found it:

says 68 mm head diam.

100mm vs 68mm is a huge shrink

There are some nice lights like the Klarus G35 with that head size and multiple cells