What did you mod today?

CRX—- It’s great to see you still have a passion for modding lights—- I have all kinds of host and parts laying around—The get motivated to build them is the hard part—————- :beer: :beer:

Not a master yet, always practising though :smiley:

It’s quite easy to get motivated, you just need to substitute one thing for another until it becomes habit. Starting is always the most difficult part. I just swapped spending nights in the pub or watching tv to doing other stuff that I find satisfying.

CRX I usually doesn’t modify much (I often do not have some part), but recently I have modded astrolux s41. I wanted to put a picture in this thread, but then you spilled a few your mods and I was a bit embarrassed to show it.

Don’t be like that mate, never judge yourself by others. There are plenty of guys out there better than I am at this too, most probably seldom showing their work. So let’s see this s41 :slight_smile:

Don’t be embarrassed! Did you see the first post that started this thread? It doesn’t get much simpler than that.

All mods (and questions about anything flashlight-y) are welcome here.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Everyone in this forum was a novice once.
Enjoy your first step. And (maybe) share it with us.

CRX is an awesome dude for sure, helped me out many times and worked his magic for me, really is a top chap of the highest order! :sunglasses: Yet me, mr ven swaps the odd boot or optic! :person_facepalming: I am the embarrassed one, get your mod up :+1:

You know what, guys? I had once a few other hobbies, but only in this forum I feel a nice atmosphere.
Only change to triple led. Soldered directly to pill. I hate the original beam.

Very cool, which flavour nichia have you gone for? :sunglasses:

Looks good!

You have some sludge on your emitter domes. It may be worth it to clean them with some isopropyl. Sometimes emitters can literally melt down if the foreign object is too big

Cool, that’s what moddin’s all about Chatika vas Paus :+1:
I was half expecting a magnet duct taped to the light or something :smiley:
Soldering looks better than mine too :slight_smile:

Thanks.
This is 219b 5000k.
I cleaned as much as I could. I never manage to clean completely, something always stays.

Very nice! I have converted a couple s41 and s42 to triples…best mod for the lights. I hated the beam of the astrolux quad.

Trips are Cool :+1:

Quad in a S2+ STUPID HOT fast!

:person_facepalming:

KawBoy, that’s good for a cold winter :smiley:
Still, it must have been a work to make it fit the S2+ head :o
Nice work all of you :wink: And thanks for the inspiration :blush:

Back when the Eagle Eye X6 first came out I did the first triple conversion and got hooked. I’ve done so many X6’s now with so many different configurations it’s become difficult to think of something new to do with them.

But it’s true, you start small and work up… like with most anything.

As I understand it, the S41 was a spin-off of a quad X5 I sent to Neal, back when the X6/X5 was a group buy and just taking off. I built the first quad X5 (I know this as it was a prototype I built it on) that one made 3030 lumens from the 14500 cell. It’s been used to scare Black Bear’s off from a camp-site… the forest ranger was quite impressed as I got the story. Yes, I gifted it to a friend up North.

Once you start, it becomes an addiction, be forewarned! :slight_smile:

Awhile back (Dec last year) I modified a friends Astrolux S41 to give him a better tint (he’s a tint snob) and while I was at it, I made a copper bezel to go on the copper head section for added heat sinking. He loved it. :smiley:


I agree, the soldering looks top notch! And soldering the MCPCB directly to the pill too. You certainly aren’t a novice. :+1:

KawiBoy how did you convert your s41 to triple? I had to grind the pill.

Just a lot of RF800.

CRX is just killing it with all these mods. So well done

Hahah yeah.

Notice how CRX mods more flashlights in the same period of time than all the rest of the modders on this forum combined! :stuck_out_tongue: