Installed Lexelās aux LED board in my D4 last night:
It was too bright for me. The blue LEDs seemed as bright as moonlight mode! I added a random resistor taken from an old driver to dim it down. This helped quite a bit.
Mods I am still contemplating for this light:
The random resistor I added to the aux LED circuit is wired to the aux LED board between the positive lead and the board. Iām thinking of moving this resistor to a more secure location on the driver between the negative lead and the ground pad on the 7135 chip.
The aux LED board is currently wired directly to positive so is always on. I need to look at that walkthrough and figure out how to enable aux LED support in the driver so the driver can control the aux LEDs.
Iād like to try to make a lighted switch on this D4 with one or two LEDs. The plan is to drill a hole through a bare portion of the switch cavity for the LED switch wire. Inside the switch cavity I plan to mount an LED or two plus resistors. Not sure how well this will work. Possible complications include the resistors and LEDs being felt by the finger through the switch button, which might require dremeling a cavity for them.
I plan to replace the black switch boot with a clear or white one so the switch light is visible. To make the new switch boot I plan to cut up a standard clicky switch boot. However, I do not know if this will be flexible enough. One concern is that I might not be able to sufficiently shape the new switch boot to provide the right tactile feel.
Yeah thatās what I used for a lighted switch on the D4, two 1206 green LEDs & two resistors, quite a difficult job mucking about with trying to get the switch right.
If you could dremmel out space for the compnents that would prob be better but youāll have a lot of experimetation with this
I actually used copper tape with the SMDs & wires soldered on and some 12mm acrylic tube to give a lighted ring effect, lot of trial & error there.
It would be AWESOME to have Anduril in a tailcap mounted driver that doesnāt need an extra electrical connection to the head. With such a driver, it wouldnāt be hard to mod any tailcap clicky light into an e-switch light with Anduril.
when are you going to sell these Anduril tailcap drivers? Iāll take 10!
It looks fantastic! 2.2 amps keeps it somewhat tame with the heat. What material is that? Looks to be an SS bezel, but the rest I'm not sure of. Probably laum or titanium because of the light weight?
Hi Tom , itās all aluminium, 2024 in classification on Europe and USA. Just it is polished ā¦ 22 Watts is turbo mode and itās not long, because PI regulator control the overheat, it just about 30 sec , then power is slowly down and stabilizated on the thermal balanse.
P.s. sorry for my bad English