What did you mod today?

Flashlight Modding and DIY Parts
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Do you know the bin codes djozz? Does it happen to be S6 7D3?

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Originally Ban listed 7A3 while his pic of the reel showed 7A4. So the information is at least inconsistent.
We will never know what we got after he started selling the new batch.

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With the original driver, on the maximum mode, in 10 minutes to about 40-42 degrees. I didn’t torture me further, I don’t shoot
It is necessary to recognize that the heating is insignificant, which is not surprising, with such currents

6446

I failed to reflow 3x white flats on an old C8F mcpcb. To make myself feel better im going to blame the pad spacing or something.

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Slapped together a X6 Shorty Flat White pocket thrower 115kcd…

830-835lm at turn on pulling 5.8amps 20mm board, contact surfaces honed/stoned flat, polished and screwed down. 771lms at 30 seconds.


Meh…blue bling tail cap…

Measured the Turbo Flat White today 695kcd

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Beautiful mods KawiBoy :+1:

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Thanks luminarium iaculator :beer:

Turn on at 5.5amps…after a couple test bumps…

Look Ma No Centering Ring! :cry: We having fun now…. :person_facepalming:

I bored the original shelf out, I was just too thin, and made a press fit copper pill with a seating ledge (for the reflector) and centering pocket (for the board) that centers the mcpcb and the reflector together, to get the canter out at the top of the reflector, I used a bit of Kapton tape. Never again… this is the last time I swap emitters out of this one… :wink: :beer:

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Nice! I am also fan of centering without centering ring.

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Orsm job KB. :beer:

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:smiley: :beer:

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Changed the Utorch UT02 from a boosted XHP-35 thrower to a totally different kind of light… built a Zener modified FET driver with 8.4V LVP and 7 modes with reversing action through the e-switch, stuck it in the UT02 with an MT-G2. :smiley:

Edit: On a pair of 26350 cells fully charged it makes 3600+ lumens. :smiley:
Edit II: Tail current shows 5.96A from the little fat half cells.

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Since my C8F white flat re-flow didn’t pan out I put some shaved dome SST-20 4000K’s in an 18650 C8F.

I got 50kcd and ~1,700 lumens

It doesn’t look very centered to me so i’m sure there’s a better result if you just had to have a 95CRI thrower.

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Do these cell’s make my tail look fat?

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LOL, I think they’re cute but YMMV….

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Built a C8 to try out a single unique XP-L HI I bought a while ago.

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It’s an XP-L HI 75CRI 5000K…when I compare it to a V2 3A I guess I would say it’s about the same spot along the BBL but it’s slightly cooler white?

Anyways, got around 1,270lm and 108kcd… believe it or not my first C8 mod. The LED is nice but I probably wouldn’t spend $7.35 on it again cause the usual suspects seem good enough (V2 5D and V3 1A)

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That F4 is a freaky light.

I was only mentioning the Olsons because of a recent post I saw of a D4 converted to them. The beamshots looked quite throwy for what it was. I just thought it may be interesting to have a small form factor tube light with two different optics and emitter options to give a potentially more versatile light depending on task.

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Today I stacked a Convoy C8 driver up to 12x 7135 in total. Flashed with my modified Babka firmware and replaced XP-L HI led with Osram white flat 1mm2 led and Astrolux C8 smooth reflector because it is a tiny bit better than Convoy reflector. Focus almost perfect first time and it throws very well :smiley:

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Nice mod Zozz. You must have terrific soldering skills. :slight_smile:

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Thanks! I solder at work every day for almost 14 years now. You can minus 3 years from that at another workplace so 11 years of soldering left. But I think I soldered first when I was 8-9 years old :smiley:

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The C8 with White flat:

And our Christmas tree at work by one of my collegue:

Tree with the C8: