Thank you for the answer.
I know about Lexel, I already have one made by him.
I would like to try it myself, but I don’t know exactly how and what gear I need and how to go about doing it…
JasonWW already answered this and said “… The only possible issue might be that after the charger stops working it has a small drain and it could slowly discharge the battery so that after a week your battery may be dead instead of fully charged and you have to charge it all over again. …”. As far as I'm versed this should not happen because if the battery voltage drops a certain (usually small) amount while the flashlight is still plugged the charging should resume and top out the cell. You could even test this by switching the torch on for a short time while plugged, of course if it works. Best advice try and check it for yourself, no SC31 to test around here. :-)
^ the other factor involved is the resistors inline with the leds in the tail, if they are too low, the influence on the driver is higher. I use at least a few kOhm. What are your values?
Yes, 2x 330 Ohm, 165 Ohm resultant resistance and that is very low, the leds are probably really bright?
I checked my X2R build and it has 3x 33 kOhm parallel, so 10 kOhm resultant resistance. My tail leds are green and still very bright. You may try a bit lower, say 10kOhm each, 5 kOhm resultant resistance.
Do you have a DMM or some type of meter? I would find out what the original wires did.
The black is ground so I guess it’s a common ground design. So black wire to the G.
Confirm the white is for the switch. If so, it should go to the S.
The new driver only has output for one switch led so you need to choose which color led you want to connect to the new driver.
Maybe red wire is for red led and green wire for green led? What kind of switch lights are on the MF04? Whichever LED you choose you can attach that to the L which should be the MCU controlled LED output or you could attach it to the LS which should be a steady output.
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It has a Breathing Green side switch light and it turns red after batteries get low.
It has been modded for the MF04 and the 2 wires are for the water pump.
I could hook it up and check it with a dmm, but I don’t want to risk damaging it.
Guess I may need to PM Lexel for help. Just hoping this was standard flashlight lingo that us newbies don’t know.
Damaging it? You must not have understood me. Just check the switch wires for continuity. Put one probe on the black wire and one on the white wire and see if pressing the switch makes contact.
All these companies don’t have any wiring standard for switches. Some use a a common negative and some use a common positive. The switch itself is not polarity sensitive, but the LEDs are. You might also check that the red wire connects to the red LED and the green wire goes to the green LED. It’s definitely possible that the green wire controls the red LED and the red wire controls the green LED. I assume the two colors are on opposite sides of the switch. If you accidentally hook up the wrong color LED it’s fairly easy to go back in and switch it for the other wire.
The best thing to do is get a piece of paper or a notebook and write down the switch wires and what they go to and then draw a diagram so that you understand where everything goes and what it does.
Lexels connectors are fairly well known.
The S would be switch positive,
the G would be ground,
the L is swich led positive controlled by the MCU
and LS is switch LED positive constant on.
I have a solarforce L2T host sitting around collecting dust. Even if i get a dropin, it wont fet used much but at least it would be a back up or loaner. What is a good budget/value dropin module?