What did you mod today?

Thanks for the idea. But I’ll keep it for pre-production items not for finished flashlights I’m currently doing.
Indeed lapping method works better for brittle aluminum such as high silicone race piston (not Wiseco). Soft and “catchy” materials like high purity copper and 10xx aluminum are PITA to work with. Oftentimes, the coarse lapping grits stuck embedded in the polished object.
I guess I have to live with whatever finest finishes the endmill does.

- Clemence

Added a pocket clip to my little stripey

PinkPanda, that little striped light looks pretty dang sharp!

FWIW, I tweaked the battery tube fitment on my SP-03 to ground against added brass screws that hold the driver in place. I now am seeing 7969.5 lumens from the three SST-40’s, that’s 2656.5 lumens for each emitter! I think that’s the closest I’ve ever gotten to a multi-emitter making nearly the same as a single emitter set-up… also indicates I’m getting over 9A to each emitter but on this light measuring the current isn’t so easy to do so I really don’t know exactly what it’s pulling. A lot, for sure!

I’ve got a variation on the UT-02 theme that I reworked to take an XP-L HI and TK’s Anduril firmware, I thought it was a pretty punchy little thrower at over 1700 lumens. Took it with me taking the trash to the road Thursday night and used the SP-03 for my primary light walking down the 300 yd driveway. Comparing the 1700 lumens to the SP-03’s well over 7000, well, there’s really no comparison! At over 600 yds even, the SP-03 just overwhelmed the smaller single die light. I was a bit surprised at that, but the 3 emitter reflector in the SP-03 is well done and delivers a nice spot of light, larger than most throwers yes but there’s so much power in it that it still reaches surprisingly far. Love it when it works out that way! :wink:

Personally I consider it one of the best looking lights around. I would be delighted to have a BLF special looking like that. Though it would look way better as a twisty. :wink:

pinkpanda3310
Guessing you have a lathe at home somewhere. Nice knurling :+1:

@Lumenzilla

I like your LED reflow technique with the birthday candle mounted on a coin. :partying_face:

Thanks for the ups :innocent:

Yes, I have a lathe. No, there is not likely to be run of these (by anyone). The angular style pocket clip seems to fit the design of the light but both the clip and body are not very durable materials.

I modified a 4.25” bar of 6061 T6 into a LOT of shavings! :stuck_out_tongue: It was only 1.75” long but still, the pile of shavings took most of 6 hours. What a mess I have! :stuck_out_tongue:

Made a copper spacer to upgrade to XHP35 HIs on my TM16GT. Still need to do some more filing on the MCPCBs before they will line up with the reflector.

Lol, I’ve made a flying birds nest before. Made me jump :smiley: :person_facepalming:

+1 on the others. That is one real nice looking torch. :beer:

WillyD, nice mod on the TM16, if I recall correctly doing similar to mine produced some 7000+ lumens and a nice beam profile. Too bad I had to sell it…

WillyD
Sweet mod, looking fwd to see it completed. :beer:

A C8 host was eating dust on a shelf when djozz offered to do a groupbuy for some ZWB2 filters . Well, he did not have to twist my arm to get on-board. Plus I ordered a 3rd-gen LG UV-emitter from Simon. From previous tweaking on other C*’s I still had a C8 size smooth XR reflctor from Fasttech. To sum it up: I used a LD-1 driver from member led4power in DD-mode. There was a snag, however. The reflector was about 1mm shorter than a regular C8 reflector.
So I made myself a shim All I needed was one copper Canadian cent, a lapping stone, a small round file and an ounce of elbow-grease. When that was over I could assemble the lot, and this was the result.
A Convoy C8 Black Edition!
It has turned out to be a real (UV) thrower, but I am not able (yet) to show it to you, because White Walls Won’t Work :frowning:

Appreciate all the pointers you provided as well. I sort of wish I would have gone with 26mm boards as the pads would have been further away from the reflector openings. If I do get this to work, I’ll be using a lot of Kapton tape. As soon as I get my Texas_Ace lumen meter, I’ll get a measurement :+1:

Thanks. Honestly, I should have had this done by now, but I keep putting it off. A little more filing on the MCPCBs and on the reflector and she’s ready to wire up.

No no…you mean it’s a ‘Murdered Out’ C8 :stuck_out_tongue: Looks pretty cool!!

Today I modified an X8 (trustfire X8, but without the “trustfire” trademark);

I replaced the LED, from XML to XHP50 and replacing the drive with this one. (one mode version)

I left the original SMO reflector and to eliminate the central black hole I sanded the front glass, in its perimeter (as you can see in the picture) the black hole disappeared. I feel satisfied.
I also changed the button with a forward; I can use it for research and for signal

Now add these two photos: the first is the light of the X8 at a distance of 6 meters, the exposure is automatic; the second I obscured in “post-production” a little to highlight the center

the shadows are due to the presence of an arched door.

^ good thinking!, that is a innovative way to solve the donut hole problem without loosing too much light!

Yeah, good idea. The black hole is completely gone? Or still slightly visible but much better? Could maybe a ring of DC-Fix do the same job?

Before emerying the glass I have tried with a plastic art ring, adhesive, semitransparent and it does the same thing. I have chosen to emery because the plastic was absorbing heat

Today I got Anduril running on my BLF GT. This mostly involved adding pin7 voltage support, adding GT buck driver support, and doing a bit of calibration.

So now it runs on D4, Q8, FW3A, and GT.

As sort of a side effect, I think the GT’s moon level is lower now… not that that matters on a thrower.