What did you mod today?

Edness · January 30, 2018, 6:38pm

How’s the output and tint of the Samsung Emitters?

Persechini · January 30, 2018, 6:44pm

I’m curious about the beam, I don’t think I’ve ever read any review/tests with samsung emitters

maukka · January 30, 2018, 7:19pm

contactcr · January 30, 2018, 7:24pm

With the medium amp draw from the meteor it seems like a pretty ideal light for those LEDs.

MRsDNF · January 30, 2018, 7:38pm

All hail BLF Q8 Janus, and of course FM. Nice. :+1:

djozz · January 30, 2018, 7:40pm

Wonderful weird project Flashy Mike!
That is lots of designing and building!

Persechini · January 30, 2018, 8:01pm

@maukka
Thanks for the links

also;

@Flashy Mike
Very cool Q8s!

@djozz
Your Sofirn C8 with grinded bezel is very cool!

FmC · January 30, 2018, 8:39pm

That’s a very cool mod, Flashy Mike :+1:

DB_Custom · January 30, 2018, 8:43pm

Nicely done Mike, I was about to post up something but you made my little tinkering project look like a popsicle stick cabin job, Way to think outside the box, very sweet!

Flashy_Mike · January 30, 2018, 10:07pm

Thanks, everybody!

WARvault · January 30, 2018, 10:14pm

Oh man, I have to follow that wild mod?! I trimmed and shimmed a reverse click switch so my SingFire-75B would tailstand, put a piece of diffuser material between the reflector and the lens and pencil modded the NMM cap… It is my new go-to indoor light for after dark toilet trips.

My first published mod, go easy guys…

g_damian · January 30, 2018, 10:23pm

What does it mean?

And how have you manage to trim switch boot?

WARvault · January 30, 2018, 10:46pm

The “firmware” for this flashlight has Next Mode Memory. Every time you turn it OFF it remembers what mode it was in, next time you turn it on it skips to the next mode, very annoying. It can be forced to quickly forget by tracing a pencil lead over the capacitor that holds charge to the IC.

I didn’t mod the switch boot, but the switch itself. I just cut enough off to clear the barrel(?). When that wasn’t enough to clear the switch boot, I put a ring of Venician Blind cord between the boot and the lip it sits on. Hope that helps!

djozz · January 30, 2018, 11:08pm

Nice mod as a first published one WARvault.
I like that flashlight, I have one from when it was still Ultrafire branded.

g_damian · January 31, 2018, 6:35am

WARvault, thanks. Nice mod

MRsDNF · January 31, 2018, 8:18am

Hi and welcome WARvault. You come from a nice area. I went to a school camp there around 1975. I guess things would have changed a little since then. Nice mod.

Andrew_Debbie · January 31, 2018, 10:42am

BLF A6 driver into a Convoy C8. This simple mod took me about 15 minutes.

djozz · January 31, 2018, 11:28am

…and you got instant improvement in user interface and output

Andrew_Debbie · January 31, 2018, 12:13pm

The C8 is a better light with the A6 driver.

I did the mod for the user interface. FET was a bonus.

X31 · January 31, 2018, 1:00pm

That’s why I prefer Biscotti driver… 3A regulated output and customizable interface.
Simon’s drivers became my first choice some months ago for any simple light (S2+, C8, any tail-click li-ion only light…)