What did you mod today?

my friends,i cant remember,but i think,somebody put xhp50 into convoy s2? sadly search doesnt help.anyone rember where is the project??:slight_smile: thanks

Should be a very simple mod. Zener mod the driver and swap emitter. The orange peel reflector should give a nice smooth flood.

okok but probably on two 18350 right-not one 18650

My first attempt at de-doming
Did it on X6 BLF edition with XM-L2 by lifting LED of aluminium heatink, then I turned on flashlight for 10s to heat up LED and peeled off dome with some toothpick :sunglasses:

It went easier than I thought. Unfortunately NW became warm tint

UTorch UT02 Mod. My very last old school XP-G2 De-Domed nice Neutral Tint, 30mm T/A Lexel built Narsil driver Powered by Sanyo 20700A or IJoy 20700 cell made in Japan? Both batteries drive it hard and I have seen 6.45amps at the hit.

Changed out the e-switch button, heavy copper braid rear spring bypass, 2mm thick copper ring driver retainer, cleared the ano off the driver pocket shelf. 6.32amps at the tail cap both Sanyoā€™s and IJoys read real close to the same.

Really like the Narsil ramping in bigger XHP70 lights, but it works out well in this torch too!

6.32 amps on xp-g2 ?? :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

Never seen one over 5.2-5.4 amps

Despite the change in tint, are you happy with the throw now?

Kawiboy is translated as WOT. :wink:

(Thatā€™s Wide Open Throttle for those that donā€™t recognize the term.)

@NeutralFan I was happy anyway, now it is perfect for my taste.

Yep old school XP-G2 got them back in the day at IO during my TK61 XP-G2 Mods. UT02 board after re-flow hooked directly to a 3 year old Red Efest 26500 test battery on the rock. (sink) Flux smoke 6.12amps at 30seconds. De-domed it, in the light, upside down sitting on a thimble of Imron thinner.

Those 20700ā€™s kick it up a notch! Just over 7+ amps in my XP-LHI V3 lights too! :+1:

Awesome kwb !

Would love to have older xp-g2 :wink:

The local police were kind enough to remind me last night that I had a headlight and license plate light out on my old 1999 Mazda 626. So, for various boring reasons, I couldnā€™t just replace the bulbs over the license plate, so I got the LED replacement, and just soldered it in where the old fixture used to be.

Before (attempting to install the LED bulb with the old fixture):

Almost done:

After I finished soldering, and ā€œpottedā€ it (with hot glue), it worked. Since I also replaced the headlights, hopefully I wonā€™t get another visit from the po-po tomorrow night. Assuming it is still working then :wink:

I modded a Olight SR90 intimidator today.

I bought the light as a host. I have no idea what happened to it but the insides were a scrambled up mess of shredded wires. The battery pack was still solid but I wanted to turn it into something I could use standard 18650ā€™s in. Surprisingly easy mod actually.

I started by ripping the battery pack apart. Inside were 6 samsung 2600mAh pink batteries. Some of my favorites actually. They were still all holding a charge and after testing were still right at 2600mAh, so that was a nice bonus. On the negative end of the pack there is a board that connects to the tailcap electronics. I took that board our, scratched the traces clean for spots to solder three springs onto. There was a spot where the negative wire was soldered. On that spot I soldered a piece of silver braid and folded it around and soldered it to the back side of the board. I then sanded off a spot on the inside of the battery carrier to match that silver braid. Very tight fit so it was perfect. I cut a piece of thick paper to cover the electronics between the board and the electronics. Now I had my bottom set up pretty much like a SRK.

I stacked my six batteries inside and tested to make sure that each of them was making the proper connections. I then cut three pieces of dowel that would slide in-between the batteries and up against the inside of the battery carrier. Once I knew that they were all going to fit and work correctly I took them out one at a time and applied JB-weld in a line on the dowels that would epoxy the dowels to the side of the battery carrier. I then used a small dowel to jam down the center really tight. This held the dowels in place while the epoxy dried. It worked perfectly. I now have a SRK type battery carrier for 6x18650.

For the positive end I used a old SRK driver, wiped clean of parts as a contact board. About an 8th of an inch needed to be filed off the sides to make it fit and I needed to solder a strand of copper wire around the edge for the negative to make contact.

From that contact board I hung a BLF FET driver and used it to power a de-Domed XHP-50.

The side switch fit a horn switch and threaded in perfectly with itā€™s own nut behind it and it didnā€™t need to be modified at all.

So now I have a OLIGHT SR-90 Intimidator that runs on standard 18650ā€™s using a DD FET driver (Ramping IU) running a de-domed XHP-50.

To say itā€™s a super thrower is a bit of an understatement. It easily lights up trees at a kilometer away.

Nice, sounds like a monster. I would estimate itā€™s at least 3000 lumens and 500Kcd. Do you not have a lux meter? I bet Iā€™m not the only one who would like to hear some numbers for all these high powered lights you make. :expressionless:

Sounds like a nice mod 18sixfifty. Only one thing missing, pictures. :slight_smile:

I have a lux meter, I just prefer not to post numbers more often then I have to. LOL Too much to argue about if you do. Letā€™s just say I have built several throwers that go above 500kcd and this one is one of them. But whatā€™s really impressive to me about this one is the amount of light that reaches out at a quarter mile. In that regard itā€™s the best I have built to date. If I were going for numbers alone I would drop in an XP-G2 S4 de-domed and use a buck driver, even then Iā€™m not sure it would beat it in KCD, it probably would but it would depend on how well I could get it to focus.

Yeah, yeah, always picking on me. I need a safe space now. :innocent:

I might have to take some beamshots of it one of these days. For now you will just have to use your imagination. Picture Putin bare-chested on a Grizzly chasing Trump with his hair flapping in the wind, riding a Giant Red Kangaroo, both shielding their eyes from the magnificence. :smiley:

Very cool Brad, now I know what to do when my modded SR90 XHP70 P2-1C battery pack takes a dump!

I did a TK61 XHP50 with a close shave and I couldnā€™t believe the throw, you are right very impressive indeed! :+1:

Thanks and I bet that TK61 rocks, probably fairly similar to this one. Just tons of lumens blasting a tight beam a looooooong way. It impressed me and I donā€™t impress that easy. XHP-50 dome off in these big reflectors is really something else. Great combo.

Ps. If you ever do convert you pack, make sure you have three strong springs about an inch long. I almost started with springs that were too short. I tested the size before I put everything together and had to find some longer ones. I didnā€™t do a spring mod yet either, Iā€™m not sure if I will. I think Iā€™m getting pretty close to maxing this emitter out as it is.



I think I just lost my appetite.



BTW, hereā€™s a thing in case anyone needs it: