I super want to do this to my MF01 but have no clue in terms of where to start as I’m super new to modding. I have access to incredibly skilled solder persons at work and I’m mechanically inclined but other than that what would I need to be looking at?
Lexel how did you open a glued MF01? I managed to open the MF02 but my MF01 is very tough. I heated it with a hot air gun but everything is just slipping on the bezel.
Looks like mines is a V2, as I can see just two wires on the mcpcb. Looks a bit involved from the pictures in that thread, not really sure anymore lol…
If I understand well, the BLF Q8 driver, with NarsilM, LVP customization and a max temperature preset, the price if 17$, right? Without shipping of course.
I had a question about your boost driver. I think you said it can provide up to 6A with a 6v led like a xhp70.2. Does this mean it would be drawing 14 or 15 amps from a single 26650 battery?
I tested yesterday a rewired and reprogrammed 30mm NarsilM driver as expected
I think I can rewire v2 boards to use NarsilM and Bistro HD properly, just got only few v2 drivers made
10 17mm 1.2mm
10 20-22mm 1.6mm
and 10 Klarus XT11/12GT 1.2 and 10 1.6mm
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Lexel customized one of these for me to use in a different light, however I just received a Q8 today and I’d like to know all of the advantages of using this driver vs the stock driver in a Q8.
Built a E2L host up into a triple with Samsung LH351D 4000K 90 CRI LEDs.
Getting ~3300lm @ turn on with FET+N+L Bistro HD OTSM driver from Lexel
Using his 6 LED switch board too with trimmers as pictured below. Allows me to balance the color just to my liking. Something is washing out the color a little in the picture below but it works well.
Beamo, the stock Q8 has NarsilM version 1.0. Lexel is using the newer v1.2 which has a few improvements. Mode steps and blinkies now “wrap around”, momentary turbo, he can program the top level of the ramp to stop early, etc…
I dont know if Lexel has embraced Andúril yet. It might require software tweaks since his driver is 3 channel and the stock driver is 2 channel.
As I said earlier, Lexels version is 3 channel with a lot of 7135 chips. The stock driver is 2 chanel with a single chip. So middle modes have better regulation.
Thanks Jason. So mainly its the better regulated middle modes, I assume it’s regulated WAY better, with sixteen 7135’s vs one.
And using the Q8 the first time tonight I see how ramping to 100% can be frustrating, several times I wasn’t sure if I was in turbo and when I double click to find out I get strobes :rage: (because I was already in turbo)
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For the Q8 driver he custom built for me he said:
“The light follows GT v1.2 UI so ramping to about 80% double click gets to 100%, so you have 2 fixed levels you can navigate in ramping easily”
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I assume he sets it to cap at 80% unless you specify otherwise. That will be so much better than the stock Q8 Narsil.
So it looks like on the Q8 driver he installs GT v1.2, so what is “GT” ? Is GT the same as NarsilM?