What did you mod today?

Very nice vinte77, did you use the TPAD XM MCPCB ?.

I put together a X7 with a de-domed XM-L2 CW and a C8s with a de-domed SST-40 both with a MTN-20DDm driver :


C8s DD SST-40 (left) X7 DD XM-L2 (right)

I really like how the tint of the X7’s CW emitter turned out after DD.

Yes, I used the tpad 32mm xm triple mcpcb.

Nice. What optics did you use? Got a link?

I suppose this is polished cute-3

Manually polished, or sold as “polished”?

It’s a cute 3 that’s been hand polished.

What ledboard is that?

I have been looking for a triple xm-l/xhp50 ledboard that will fit the cute 3, but i must have been realy bad at looking :nerd_face:

Richard had 5 or 6 pcs in stock, but I suppose vinte had bought all of them :smiley:
You can try to order such boards from cutter.

Ah thank you!

I have been properly blind for not finding those…

Which extension tube have you bought?

vinte77, that is a compact way to get a whole lot of lumens. Care to comment on the performance?

So the cute-3 can fit the XHP50?

I bought the 32mm tpad triple mcpcb off of mountain and I think when I bought it there wasn’t but a few remaining so it makes sense that there isn’t any left right now.

I bought the extension tube off of fasttech, here’s the link : https://www.fasttech.com/p/1575200 . The extension tube needs some finagling to get it to fit, but I didn’t have to do any modifications to the tube to make it fit. Just greased up the threads and kept screwing the extension tube in and backing it out everytime the tubes got stuck until it fit all the way in. Oh and of course, I stripped the anodizing off to match the rest of the light.

I haven’t had a chance to really test out the light besides doing a function check. But I can say that the light is very very bright. I’ll report back once I get a chance to play with the light more.

That is nice for sure, seems only thing missing is one of Simons SS bezels

I forgot to add that you have to slice the domes off of the xhp50s to make them fit under the optics.

So I had a chance to play with the light last night. I ran it on 2 vtc6 batteries and it pulled about 20amps. It puts out a nice wall of high cri light with a nice hotspot and a lot of spill. My only issue with the light is that there is a very small faint donut hole in the middle but it’s only noticeable on a whitewall. I ordered flexpro’s MT lens and hopefully that’ll do the trick or if not I might try an unpolished cute-3 instead. The light heats up pretty quickly but it wasn’t too bad but I definitely won’t be running it on high for too long. The heavy copper slug definitely helps with the heatsinking. Unfortunately, I don’t have any other tools to do any other measurements.

OK, thanks. Thats what I thought, it will not fit.
I have this extension too, but no C8 for it. This extension fits the old/first Convoy C8, I think.
You used brutal force to fit this tube.

The fitting of the extension tube wasn’t too bad. I’m not sure if I used “brutal” force but it took some effort but not ridiculous strength as I was able to do it by hand with some elbow grease.

Two mods today! :partying_face:

1

Led+reflector swap in my Convoy L6. It had already a resistor mod and bypassed springs. The stock cool XHP70 led was replaced by a XHP70.2 4000K 80CRI (from Mouser, so no exact tint bin), the OP reflector replaced by a smooth reflector.

Before mod current 7.0 A, before mod output 3850 lm.
After mod current 6.45 A, after mod output 4465 lm.

(no idea why the current went down :question: )
Measurements were on Liitokala 5000mAh 26650 cells, at 30 seconds, current was measured without tail using a thick copper loop and a clamp meter.

The beam is really ok, the yellow-ish corona of the new Cree leds is only slight, on a white wall not ugly and in real life not noticable. In the middle of the hotspot a small yellow-ish clover shape, again not ugly. The OP reflector would smooth it all out but I like the distinct hotspot that a smooth reflector produces.


(tint looks green, but is not)

Nice! Time to mod my L6 it seems :slight_smile:

2

Black Jaxman E2L host, S2+ 18350 tube, BLF-A6 driver (with ‘anti-spike’ fix with extra 5 Ohm resistor), triple Osram Oslon 3rd gen. Square 3000K 92 CRI (from Mouser).

Osram high CRI leds are known to be greenish, but this led, although it is not rosy at all like the Nichia high CRI leds, is very ok. Less yellow than the gen.2 Square 3000K 92 CRI (which I have in a Carclo triple light as well, so a direct comparison), and better blue’s. Very pleasant for who is not into the Nichia rosy.

I did no spring bypasses and used the stock thin ledwires that came with the driver. On an Aspire 18350 battery at 30 seconds, the current on highest setting is 10A and the output 1460 lumen in warm high CRI :slight_smile:

The beam is very good, smooth tight spot (tighter than 219C) and no noticable tint shift over the beam (unlike 219C that with the Carclo is slightly yellow in the center of the spot).

Three beams of Carclo triples, left gen.3 Square 3000K 92CRI, right gen.2 Square 3000K 92CRI, top 219C 3500K 92 CRI.