What did you mod today?

If you see the small check out of the back corner of the unit, well there is a corresponding piece of copper press fitted into the leatherman segment so you push the LED unit back into the body until it makes contact and push it from the back to turn it off, like a slide switch. Itā€™s held in by friction. Doesnā€™t look too bright in the pictures as I need new cells.

CRX - this is getting out of handā€¦. :smiley:

:+1: :beer:

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8) 8) :sunglasses:
I do not respond to all of your mods (soo many), but I do think they are all outstanding. But this one is extra cool because it fits so well in what a multitool must be.

Awesome build, CRX!
What do you think of adding elements with color LEDs?

Thanks mate :beer:

Thanks. Yeah Iā€™ve been thinking about how to do an unobtrusive light on the tread for a while, the problem was always the cells.
These two SR364ā€™s are in series, which was the hardest part, check out my first attempt with an XP-G2 :laughing:

Can be cool, your D4 colour mods are great :+1:
I think the last colour mod I did was the dual DQG Hobi amber

Pls crx go away. Your mods are way too awesome! :smiley:

Seriously, very impressive! What you can come up with and make.

Same here. :slight_smile:
Great job CRX.

:beer:

They say great minds think alike. :stuck_out_tongue:

The mcu can measure voltage internally. Voltage divider would be required for multicell serial setups though, which is not the target for this driver. Itā€™s mainly designed for multicolor lights.

:open_mouth: Unbelievable, this is way too crazy cool as with all your mods ā€¦

:wink: :+1:

I didnā€™t even know such a thing existed, and here you are modifying it! Sweeeeeet! :smiley:

MRsDNF, if great minds think alike that leaves youā€¦ where, exactly? :stuck_out_tongue: (you know good and well you left that wide open!)

A guy here struggling to make a simple triple and you make this CRX?!!! Ainā€™t fair :smiley:
Nice mod, thatā€™s really cool!!! :sunglasses:

Ainā€™t it the truth MacaratumB? Heā€™s putting out Picassoā€™s while some of us are playing with crayonā€™s.

And on that crayon note, I stuck an Zener modified FET driver in the little solid copper X5, put a sliced and diced XHP-50.2 on an XM-L board with 20ga leads, stripped the resistor off the lighted tail cap (Zener modded FETā€™s donā€™t like those) and will be using the little copper light with a pair of 14250ā€™s. Charging 2 of those up to see how much light they give, it looks neat in there anyway even if the little cells arenā€™t up to it.

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I have a tread copy from Gearbest. I really neeeeeeeed to make this flashlight mod. What other mods you made to it? I saw some magnets and tritiums and a black thing on that flashlight piece next to the glassbreaker. What it that?

Iā€™m just a poor old dumb Moose, :cry: :slight_smile:

LOL, a poor old dumb moose that makes some KILLER flashlights from scratch and otherwise. :smiley:

Speaking of being mentally challenged, this copper X5 had me running in circles. The 50.2 was only drawing .5A no matter what I tried. Come to find out, only 2 of the 4 dies were working, so I tried another and was testing it open on the bench when 2 started to flicker out! Whaaat? I was giving it too much power, but how, from 2 tiny 14250 cells? I had to go to smaller lead wires, as long as I could fit in the small light, remove heavy springs in favor of lighter ones, and I think now it might work. Looks to be pulling around 2A at the tail. This emitter may already be damaged though. Geesh. Too much, whoā€™d have thought I could do something like that?

I inoocently stuck a 50.2 in my Jaxman M2 and itā€™s doing 3000 lumens from 2 14500ā€™s. Go figure.

Edit: If it gives me any more trouble Iā€™m going to a 70.2, putting bigger wires back in and going to thick springs with 20 ga bypasses. :smiley:

Itā€™s a common problem with the XHP50.2. It might be from too much current at turn-on, but nobody has ever studied this conclusively.

It might also just be that Cree is having problems manufacturing these.

Well, in all fairness, these 3 50.2ā€™s I had laying around came out of my DBC-05 scratch build. That one was making some 12,000 lumens when I decided to swap em out for 70.2ā€™s. So these have been abused already, before now.