I couldnāt agree more with you CNCman. And that goes to the program creators for these drivers as well.
Not today but added a lighted tail switch to the FourSevens Mini ML Ti Triple Nichia 219C 5000K.
LD-A4 3A driver - Start around 1800lm DD 60Ā°C, 320lm stepdown 25s. 942lm CC 60Ā°C, 270lm stepdown 60s.
White LED's under the green GITD silicone circling the reverse clicky titanium switch cover.
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New GITD titanium switch cover for the FourSevens PK Paladin Triple XP-G2 3D.
FET 15+1 driver, reverse clicky tail switch - Start around 1900lm DD, 928lm stepdown 30s.
Fantastic CRX. Man I like that mini.
Yeah that is a nice one 
I wish I had your smarts CRX.
Not so smart, just perseverance 
ā¦and a certain amount of talent, an eye for detail plus a sense of craftsmanship.
Hard to argue with this.
We would Love to see some pictures
Be careful, thatās enough amps to Weld Steel with !!!
I lost with this , I need to back up to the beginning of your mod to understand what your making.
Not ātodayā butttt
Built a PD68 tripledown board. Still a bench project but I do have one in a light but it is just pressfit and not soldered in yet. It runs Bistro-HD right now. Still yet to settle on mode groups and actually build them out.
The cut in the PCB is intentional
Reflowing the LEDs
unlit
small 7135 channel
big 7135 channel
FET
Bistro-HD ramp āstrobeā snippet
This is awesome.
I believe you filed the MPCB and optic to fit into the head?
Yes, MCPCB diameter just over 18mm to fit. The pill has some extra copper added too.
Iām not quite ready to make permanent modifications to this light for Mrs. manithree, so I made a drop-in replacement for the incandescent bulb using a high CRI Yuji strawhat, a brass washer, and some copper wire.
Looks good manithree. Hows the beam in the reflector?
Nice, that will run forever direct drive on two alkalines!
I was hoping to get the emitter just a little further forward than it ended up. So itās a doughnut. And itās significantly less bright than the incandescent which had a slightly worse beam pattern.
I have a couple of eneloop AAs in C sleeves to run it. A flashlight that old that has never had an alkine leak in it should be kept that way, IMO.
But, yeah, itās not very bright, so I expect battery life wonāt be a problem.
Ok, so yāall know by now that the right cell can make a big difference, right? I mean, you go to a lot of trouble modding a light you want to use the cell thatās going to show it off, sure ya do!
So, I got the new Samsungās in my Meteor and made some tweaks, with Samsung 30Qās it was making like 17,528 lumens, right? But how can that be enough? I mean, the math said there was more to found so I ordered some of the new (to me anyway) Samsung 25S 18650ās. Supposed to be directly comparable to the Sony VTC5A and 5D cells.
Got solder blobs on 4 out of 8, got em charged up, stuck em in the Meteor and fired that bad boy up! ANDā¦.
18,940.5 lumens at start! Yeowza!
1412 lumens for a battery swap, Iāll take it! lol
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Not today but added a lighted tail switch to the FourSevens Mini ML Ti Triple Nichia 219C 5000K.
LD-A4 3A driver - Start around 1800lm DD 60Ā°C, 320lm stepdown 25s. 942lm CC 60Ā°C, 270lm stepdown 60s.
White LEDās under the green GITD silicone circling the reverse clicky titanium switch cover.
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Awesome build CRX!!
Tonight I converted my TK45 to be able to swap back and forth between the 4/8 AA carrier and a 26650.
I previously installed a 7135 based driver so input voltage was already in the 3-5v range. The carrier had been modified at that time to give 4s NiMH voltage (stock the light was 8S AA) and it could deliver that~4v even if only half loaded with 4 AA as long as I used the correct slots. The 26650 also gives a 105g weight advantage over the same capacity of NIMH (8 NiMH arranged 2p4s giving a capacity of ~4.0Ah + carrier = 275g, 26650 @ ~4.0Ah & adapter parts = 170g)
