BLF style 18650 1s thrower( poor mans Olight M2X)

Nice work there li , that’s what i plan to do in my next one , probably with a 10mm board .

If there will not be significant difference with 26mm mcpcb I would recommend 16mm mcpcb to anyone.
It is easy!
You just need to drill hole in reflector(and I stacked additional 16mm noctigon beneath upper one for better heat transfer, and because of that nasty middle donat hole in pill)
I used this tool and hand aku drill:

Nice work on the reflector luminarium iaculator and looking forward to the comparison between the two different mods.

I assembled 26mm one today. Tried to center it with direct contact to mcpcb(reflector base touched mcpcb so emitter was at it highest point, even slightly above that bottom reflector ring since I sanded it thin) and while the beam was ok I was getting bad results…
Then I started slightly with raising reflector above mcpcb and there it was…

But only 260kcd on my old/bad lux meter. Tint and beam profile are more or less the same.

16mm mcpcb reflector drill mod seems to have slightly clearer and warmer beam, and of course slightly better performance.

I am probably using bit different centering method than you guys but when doing 26mm one just thin centering ring around the led should do the trick… Or if you do eye centering method like myself about 4-5 layers of kapton tape on bottom base of reflector should do the trick.

That worries me cause I already have 3x additional xpg2s42b reflowed 26mm mcpcb’s for other lights.
And because of all possible variables(reflector, emitter, centering) I am not sure that mentioned bottom circle in reflector is guilty for such results…

And only solution which can tell the truth is to drill through new reflector again and to see if there will be any lux difference.
I yet have to make decision for this.

are you using new or old xpg2 s4?

Good old one as I mentioned in earlier posts. They are harvested from meteor flashlight.

Edit fast pic comparison on low mode:
left is 260 kcd 26mm pill mod righ is 280 kcd 16mm pill mod (and it seems camera caught pwm)

I found about the same with the XPL-HI above. One layer of kapton was slightly worse than a ~0.3 mm sanded gasket. (No work done on the reflector.)

I received a second light this week. This one had a black (off-center glued) MCPB with a black 19 mm insulating cup on top of the black centering gasket. Also an Omten switch. 1st one had a white MCPCB, same black centering gasket, but no cup and a Kan-28 switch with ill-fitting rubber boot.

The battery tube on both lights do not thread into the head all the way. Anyone try to shorten the threads on the tube?

I like the 16mm solution with the reflector base removed. :+1:

I`ve modded a M3X today with S4 1A, running at 4.8 amps( a slight bump from the driver default) ….440k cds, the beam profile is quite scope frendly :slight_smile: the default emitter bracket needed a little bit of sanding

Yet, like in this case here i think that the beam profile becomes quite narrow for a 24/7 non scope BLF use, even for my taste, and i like tight beams

Yes… My first one came with Kan-28 and other ones came like you mentioned.
Is there really a need to shorten the tube? I think there is no need for that. Tube threads all the way and touches the pill but then it leaves small gap(it swallows original o ring and oring does not looses its function but small gap is seen).
I just thread lock it and put additional oring there:

Mitko thanks for this light. I will modd and sell some to old school hunters.
But IMHO and I am very sure what I am talking about nothing can compete with a aspheric light fitted with precoolimator when it comes to scope hunting.
For example 220 kcd modded 1503 flashlight with precoolimator vs lets say 300kcd supwildfire, both fitted with same driver and xpg2 dd led.

1503 has significantly larger hotspot and not only that 200 kcd of 1503 aspheric beam visually outthrows 300kcd reflector soupfire beam pattern. Confirmed by several people that where standing and just observing next to me. So light meter says one thing but in real use aspheric wins. That why I like them so much… Cause it is very important what I can see in the night not just the numbers.
Some of you will say numbers are numbers and that they should not make a difference but I say opposite: “you’ll see further in a night with aspheric beam pattern”.
I can explain and give my theory about that phenomen but this is Soupwildfire modding thread and it is very nice reflector flashlight and I really hope my old and probably broken meter under reads mentioned 260 and 280kcd I got… I will report new measurements with new uni-t meter when it arrives… :slight_smile:

I have shortened the battery tubes but at the same time had to bore the inside a little deeper as well to clear the pill.
For orings that work I’ve been using 1.8mm section, not sure of the OD but around the same as the standard ones.

Ah, knew it was not that easy. I noticed the one side is bored to fit around the pill, but not that it was that shallow. Thanks for the heads-up!

Too bad everything around the pill is so screwed up with this light. Would make a nice outdoors beater light if the fit is made more secure and reliable.

Thread lock it for more secure and reliable fit as I did. No one will be able to unscrew it after that… Not even Arnold :slight_smile:
Only way to unscrew after that is with heat gun when thread locker melts.

I had to drill a hole in second 26mm modded pill and while I fiddled with centering that made no difference… Still 260kcd on bad old lux meter.

So it could be couple of things like possibility that noctigon dtb board is better than maxtoch, emitter variation, reflector variation, human factor(although I don’t even doubt that I gave my best in this modds) etc…

That red mcpcb of noctigon board makes beam warmer than white maxtoch in mentioned “drill through reflector modd”.

Now heat transfer redneck test… Two flashlights(one in left and other in right hand) and it seems that noctigon one gets warmer few seconds quicker which means that it has somewhat better heat transfer although 26mm maxtoch pill is made on better way with bigger copper chunks beneath 26mm maxtoch dtpb and everything, and that why I mentioned that it could also be some dtp board performance differences although I don’t have any proper equipment to measure that.

If I would have to choose which method is easiest and the best for me it would be 16mm drill through reflector modd. Cause you don’t have any pill modding here. You just have to accurately drill through reflector(that may be easy to someone and not so easy to other one).

But I will have to do harder 26mm pill modd for my next 3 lights since I already have re-flowed and de domed emitters, and re flowing back that dd emitters from maxtoch to noctigon would be recipe for disaster of very rare emitters, god old xp-g2 s4 2b.
But I really do feel a bit sorry that I spend few super throwy emitters to this reflector light instead of a good aspheric light :cry: .

Maybe stock fake xm-l2 re flowed to noctigon would be best solution and 200kcd like some of you got is really not that bad.

350kcd Djozz got is remarkable but maybe mine are close to his results cause I have bad lux meter so I will report results with new budget uni-t lux meter and new modds.

And looking forward for your reports guys.

This is all useful info luminarium iaculator and appreciate you posting it up. Thanks. :+1:

Just got back from France where i was for 2 weeks.
It’s a rural area where i was, so very dark at night and long distances to trees and what not.

As i said before, my Brynite aspheric with old dedomed XP-G2 on a modest 2.8 Amperes makes minced meat of this Supwildfire with XP-L HI on 3.88 Amperes (measured), but “in real life” the Supwildfire is much more practical with its spill and corona added to the beam.
Maybe not interesting for the throw junkies out here :smiley: but it’s a very usable flashlight like this.

BUT
I will never do that MCPCB mod with the bent down soldering joints, because it’s too much work and one of the traces came loose from the copper board because of the bending down….
IF i ever buy and do another one of these lights i will remove the reflector base and use a 16mm board, like above.
The light does look nice and ‘stock’ though with everything fitting nicely.
To add to the old school style i fitted a green GITD switch boot. :stuck_out_tongue:

I’ll put in some thicker LED wires though, i only had rather thin ones when assembling.
This will help the output on lower Voltage a little.

No problem MRsDNF :wink:

Jerommel drill very carefully and get luxmeter :slight_smile:

My next one will be done this way li did and see if it can reach my UT02 results for comparison :slight_smile:

A quick question … Is there any interest for this flashlight , but :

  • Sold as a host
  • Equipped with HQ pill made from brass that accepts 26mm mcpcb
  • Has fixed tube so it will be water resistant

My opinion:

  • Yes, sold as host would be best.
  • I can live with the stock pill, a brass one would add cost and not much benefit.
  • O-rings can make it water resistant too, and i personally like the option to tighten the pill towards the reflector from the rear.