Cool
Several builds down to the wire this year for one reason or another - I hope you can get your build finished!
….aaaaaaannnndd i’m out of the ‘race’….
EVERYTHING went wrong…
All 3 LEDs were broken due to bending LED board, so i put on 3 new ones.
Problem solved, right?
Nope…
Something else must have gone wrong too, because i suddenly had only 1 mode Direct drive.
Yes, that would be the - minus making a short with the body.
And then the + wire broke off when investigating.
So, i had to get my pipe cutter to cut of the head, but the because of the epoxy potting i tore off some parts of the driver.
Soldered them back, but it didn’t work anymore…
All would have been well if i didn’t have broken and short circuiting LEDs from bending the LED board flat with a tap with a hammer on a rod placed in the centre of the board earlier…
Now it’s all for nothing, or at least, for this contest / build off.
Crap, crap, crap…
I feel your frustration Jerommel. You showed us some amazing skills. Dont let it eat you up. 
Still well done Jerommel! I did not even dare to start with a scratch build, while you did start and even came up with some really cool concepts! 
Yeah…
I still can’t believe the + wire just broke off…
It broke off where the wire couldn’t even bend, 3 to 4 mm inside the epoxy… 
But oh well, it was very educational…
The battery with charger and switch in the tube still work, so i can put a new head on it eventually…
We’ll see…
Thanks Djozz.
Better luck next time.
Hey, sorry to hear this
I was liking the concept and work!
Don’t lay your arms down, pick were you stopped and restart, even if it is not for the contest 
The time invested so far is much more than the one remaining to get a full working light
Very oldskool, very cool 8)
Sorry to hear you’ve hit a wall. This is an amazing build so far. Would like to have seen the end product.
That sucks, but it was great to see what you had done
Maybe jam it back together & bypass the driver for direct drive?
Sorry for the bad luck…. 
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Thanks all for your condolences.
Yeah, I’m also sorry. Sometimes everything goes wrong.
To bad Jeroen. Better luck next year.
Maybe some one in Europe can send you some spare parts to finish?
My builds been a pain also so much wasted work on parts i didn’t need lol. I take it as a learning experience i guess.
There was more than one occasion Justin would start building or modding a torch only to have him say half way through that what he was trying to do could not be done and scrap the build in frustration only to come back to it at a later date and complete it. :laughing:
Too bad it ended like that. That was a really interesting build!
Bummer Jerommel…Don’t let it get you down… too much. I think it was a great idea, very innovative to say the least. So take a break and get back to it, start another one if this one can’t be saved, because I for one would like to see it done the way you intended it to be!