What did you mod today?

Also rebuilt my Olight TC10 Ti with an XP-L HI v2 5D on 16mm Noctigon, new OP reflector and GITD switch.

Around 1100lm OTF with the FET driver.

Some beautiful mods again, CRX! Especially I like that you often mod Foursevens lights, love them but ever only bought one (a warm high CRI mini-AA).

And Flickr upload works again so here is yesterday’s mod, a Sofirn C8F host with:
*corrected a hole in the ledboard to compensate for the sloppy manufacturing work on the reflector (screw hole in the wrong position)

*reflowed three XP-L2 V3 4000K 80 CRI leds (from Mouser)
*used 18 AWG ledwires, but still the current is limited by them because the way the head is build, they need to be long.
*Lexel’s 17mm 3-channel e-switch Narsil driver, with a reversed spring for battery contact, the led+ wire (through the enlarged to 2.5mm hole in the driver) soldered to the top of the spring. The 7135 chips on the battery side had the corners filed off plus the brass driver ring was bevelled on the inside to make the ring fit on top of the chips.
*lowered the resistors on the switchboard from 33K to 4.7K, and the green leds for yellow ones. Swapped the shallow dark switch cover for a raised clear one (spare switch-cover from a Q8)
*did a tail-spring bypass with 18AWG silicon wire.
*sanded the ears off the tail and Foy-bezeled the bezel.

The current and output was a bit less than expected: 15 amps and 3500 lumen on a charged 30Q after 30 seconds (output is pretty stable so the leds are well heatsinked), I hoped for 4200. I blame that on the rather long ledwires that this host requires, all other connections in this mod are very beefy. The beam is good with a clear hotspot, as to be expected from this host, I did not measure throw. The tint is very nice, the hotspot does have the yellow-ish corona that we came to love with all new Cree leds, but with the 80CRI leds (both 5000K and 4000K) the yellow is not scary greenish but a very acceptable soft yellow. The yellow switch leds light up nice and bright and use 0.7 mA when the light is off (almost half a year to drain a 30Q).

I like the yellow lighted switch & Foy bezel :+1:

Nice stuff! I have six of these hosts waiting for my new driver design on the way. Do you have the exact order code to the LEDs on mouser? I don’t understand Mouser’s search engine. Let’s say I want to see what XP-L2 LEDs they have. I can’t select XP-L2. I select all other stuff, but not narrow it down to XP-L2. How do you do that?

Cree order code: XPLBWT-00-0000-000HV340G
https://mouser.com/ProductDetail/941-XPLBWT000HV340G

I’m not good at Mouser’s search engine, it can not find XP-L2 and leaves products out that are clearly within the filters that I use.

Thanks. You don’t have an answer to the search question though?

Just edited the post, now I did :slight_smile:

Thanks again. I guess I’m not the only one having difficulties with Mouser search.

What I remember is that I managed to get the XP-L2’s listed separately from the XP-L (dunno how I did it), they have just 11 XP-L2’s listed, and then went through them one by one for the specs. But only 2 of them have complete specs on the Mouser site so I looked the product numbers up in the datasheet to check the specs for the other 9 :person_facepalming:

Mouser XPL2

Maybe i’m oversimplifying this but if you type XPLBWT then query. Then check in stock, then hit filter. You get the above URL. You could also filter by Cut Tape to remove the stars if you want.

Still, djozz is right that they are missing all the stats so you will have to open the data sheet and CTRL+F for those full part numbers to see exactly what bin/tint/etc you are really seeing.

I put my new little Thorfire TK-05 on a small diet. :slight_smile:

This small 14500 sized light doesn’t need tactical crenelations, gone… nor does it need a lanyard… wings gone. So maybe now it won’t snag things with the little wings on the tail cap when in my pocket.

As it turns out, I also built an FET+1 driver for it with Anduril. So the TK is for ToyKeeper and the 05 is for (true stuff right here!) my fifth iteration of Anduril. I was thinking this when I cut in 5 visible rings on the tail cap. Should have laid it out more carefully (actually should have laid it out, cut it on the fly by eye) I guess but oh well, bulls-eye works.

Nichia NF2W757GT-F1 Rfc00 5000k

16mm XML

AA driver
Low:7mA
Mid:100mA
High:500mA

Left Rfc00 5000K,Right XPG3 3000K 90CRI

Same driver high mode

The is some kind of weirdness going on here. Nice work steel_1024. :beer:

DQG AA Titanium with forward tail clicky and USB charging port.XP-L HI v2 1A on 16mm Noctigon
Narrow spot TIR
FET 10 driver
Potted
Graphite aesthetics
Forward clicky magnetic tail switch
Green 6mm x 2mm tritium vial
Micro USB charging port (300mA)
ME4056 charging board
Max - 924lm OTF
69mm x 18mm
Weight - 45g with 14250 cell

Unscrew the head to reveal the micro USB charger port.Forward tail clicky soldered into brass tube and fixed to tail cap with brass contact ring. Brass contact points in head unit.
Charging unit is potted inside a copper housing.A 300mAh 14250 cell is used with this light.To charge, remove flashlight head, turn on the clicky switch and connect USB lead.
Red indicator for charging and green for charge complete.
The charge current is 300mA maximum, around 1C for this 300mAh 14250 cell, charge time about 1hr:10m

ILC-0 dynamic RGB tailcap (on left):

Changed the reverse clicky in the brass kubatan to a forward clicky.

Installed a 10507 optic and magnetic tail in my brass triple Nichia 18350 light.
These are 2mm x 2mm magnets, 25 of them. It was not too easy a task :laughing:

Previously the light was a mule.

Well it’s not a flashlight or as cool as the rest of the posts on here but…. I modded an old desk light I inherited from my grandfather. I ripped out the old transformer and installed a new little 12 volt switching power supply, the led are 5630smd’s warm white. Fun little project.


Off

low.

high.

A mod is a mod man :slight_smile:

Cool lamp :+1:

CRX, you’re so far over the top I, yes I, am speechless…

Jason, that’s a really cool fix up on the old light, you’ll be able to enjoy that for decades to come now, good job! :slight_smile:

Ooh, takes a bit to keep you quiet :smiley: