Ha Ha Lightbringer, nut… Satan gets my goat… Oh know,
And thank you Evgeniy or your welcome, both, and to all who have sent PMs, thank you also,
No I do not believe the optic is glued at all, it may have some thermal adhesive that might have squeezed up through the boards holes onto the bottom of the pegs, maybe, but that wouldn’t be your problem either, it is just a really solid assembly and the optics pegs are pressed into the boards holes very very tight, so gently with the right kind of tool pry up at each peg and just keep gently prying circularly until you feel it break loose,
I went around maybe 5 times applying gentle pressure on each peg I didn’t know either at first what was the hang up but I also had a spare carclo 10507 in case I broke the lens and used what looks like a small curved metal spatula thing, but slight pry’s on the posts keeps it aligned evenly and won’t tweak one side to much and break the peg, it is tight for sure, good luck and you know you can make a good bezel tool out of needle nose pliers and some heat shrink tubing, I ground off the needle nose gripping so it was smooth and then but shrink tubing 2 layers actually since it was thin stuff and the rubber gives a good grip on those bezels and is also easier to see than trying to twist those off with your hands, or use a rubber pickle jar lid remover thingy, ha ha, lots of odd ball tools, but patience and calm is the trick most the time.
Your very welcome The Miller, yes some previously talked about non issues needed to be clearly put to rest and glad to have been able to do so. Thanks again.
These are not the best pics but thought I’d throw them up here anyhow, used a Convoy grey 18350 tube with the E2L head and switch and it fits and works, just thought I’d mention it.
And yes I did, I mucked up a LED, told you that board was tough to get out, so it’s only one, get the hot air out, might mention also the retainer is a little whatever you call it, bear… thin and the pocket for the driver is not very deep so it’s sort of difficult to get aligned and get the retainer on and centered, nothing unusual. Makes a nice pocket triple though, so once I change the driver and LED’s I can put that quad on the shelf.
Got mine today. It’s a very nicely finished light and surprisingly short compared to other similar 18650 lights (S2+, E2, A6).
Here’s some measurements from the “warm yellow” version.
Slightly green tint in the middle of the beam but not too distracting, since the average tint is quite neutral. The outermost edge has a bit of a blue tint (relative to hotspot).
Since the light uses PWM (30 kHz) on low and mid, there’s no tint shift in different outputs.
Yes Sir that is correct, I suppose I could have just said that, but had all the numbers handy for someone else so dropped them all on you…ha ha
In real life as you know it’s not that much shorter by eyeball, but when you get into the shorty tube, now it’s getting into a very nice pocket friendly triple and comfortable after carrying the copper heat finned shorty quad for awhile now…
Alright so I was talking about my troubles with the glue in the host thread, but I suppose it’s more applicable to the whole light as that is what I purchased to mod instead of waiting on the possible host. I changed my mind this morning and decided I would get it done today.
So I wanted to just swap the driver, but I couldn’t even get to the wires on the mcpcb because of the glue:
I didn’t get any pictures of my driver cavity because honestly I didn’t feel like bothering. I do have this pic of the stock driver:
You can still see some of the goo on the top left chip. There was a bit more and it was all over the wires. So what I tried to do was yank the wires from the driver side out. I knew they would rip and it wouldn’t be pretty, but I was hoping some of the goo would come with them… it didn’t. I ended up snipping them deep on the driver side and then using a thin nail and rubber mallet to push the wires towards the mcpcb and the wires went quite easy. I found out the goo is quite brittle and does not like shock very well so I just kept using slightly larger nails driving them through the stuff until it all cracked away. I never mentioned this before, but there was even a little glue on my retaining ring… which explains why that was so hard to break free in the first place. I replaced the driver with the MTN 17DD using Bistro firmware. The board is a little bit thinner than the old one and maybe even not quite as wide, but the retaining ring still tightens down on it just fine. I had to solder the leads onto the mcpcb while still glued into the flashlight head which took a little trial and error… it also isn’t very pretty, but it works. If it keeps working for me I’ll try to get some beam shots up of how it was vs now vs stock S2+ 8x 7135. I would like to get a few more optics for it so I’ll order those soon.
