Jay, I had time for a mod today!
My second Supwildfire. It had the fake XM-L2 and a cheap aluminium pill. But also a fat Omten switch at the back which is nice, I only had to solder a wire from the brass cap to the bottom of the spring, add a colourful silicon tailcap and the tail was done.
So I had bought one of those expensive 26mm Maxtoch boards (before I knew about the cheaper Manker version ) and all was fine they said. Well, I do not know how other people did it but for me it required quite some fancy pill modifications to get it working.
Sawing off the rim
Sanding the top flat (a very thin edge was leftover, later I removed it)
Holes drilled in the side
Dremeled the opening out. Also added 20AWG wires to a bistro-driver and made a spring-bypass. Also carefully reamed the reflector opening so that one of my better centerpieces would exactly fit. The centerpiece was also sanded down on the underside so that it only sticks out of the reflector by just a fraction of a mm (=correct focus for a dedomed led!)
Then flattened the Maxtoch board on the underside as well as possible (800 grit) reflowed an old type XP-G2 S3 3D on it and hot-dedomed the led (went well :-) )
Then the driver was fixed into the pill (it has a well working retaining ring for it :-) ), applied a very thin layer of Arctic silver 5 on the pill, screwed the pill into the head into position (top level of the pill just above the shelf in the head surrounding it) and fixed the position by screwing in the battery tube against it (very tight). The ledboard was pressed on the pill and the ledwires soldered. I did not fix the board to the pill, just hoped that when screwing down the bezel, the reflector would not shear something off.
It worked well, the reflector nicely pressed down the board when closing the bezel, without damaging the ledwires (at least the light works fine )
Now I have two of these modded!
The current on a VTC6, measured with a clamp meter with the tail section of the flashlight off, is about 3.9 A. The output at 30 seconds: I measured 965 djozz-lumen. I carefully measured the throw (VTC6, 30 seconds, 7 meter distance) and measured a rewarding 322 kcd. And very steady as well, hardly dropping output, perhaps thanks to that huge Maxtoch board.