I’d like to get another chance at the S2+ Copper. I only bought my first S2+ from FT in Jan. They haven’t arrived yet (hit customs this morning) I saw the copper ones, but I had also gone a little haywire with spending on a new Leatherman Charge+, 2) BLF A6s, another budget flipper knife (Eafengrow EF66), Ti toothpicks and a bunch of other random things.
So, yeah, reading and following others’ suggestions for updates… Smooth body w/18350, triple Nichia 219, stainless switch cover and A6 driver. Too much to ask from a newbie?
You could build yourself one just like that, minus the copper part, all the parts are readily available and fairly cheap. Grab a host on Convoy’s AliExpress page. All the cool new colors are there, or you can take some oven cleaner to the light and strip off all the anodizing and have a raw aluminum custom light you built yourself. Super easy. If you get stuck on anything somebody is always here to help you out.
Built a torch with one of his blue lighted switches in the past. Used 5.1KΩ + 10KΩ bleeding resistors (≈3.37KΩ), it ended up being @#$% bright. I'd probably choose 10KΩ next time.
Simon what tint and flux bin did you get for the 2700k? Because the tint on the sst20 is is very output dependent, green on low output amd rosier on high output, I’m hoping you g9t the JA1,JA4,JD1,JD4 tint bins because with those at least the tint will not be green/yellow at low outputs. But regardless sst20 is less green than any 219C.
^ Despite all efforts by BLF-members and sellers to get special colour bins below the BBL for the SST-20, it seems that Luminus, for all colour temperatures delivers the same limited set of tint bins that are generally a bit above the BBL , and is only below the BBL for the 3000K version. I doubt that Simon will get a different tint bin for 2700K than Kaidomain (which is the JC1 bin).
Lighted tails the way that was developed on BLF using bleeding current from batt+ to the tail (which was used in a few BLF and Astrolux lights) are an electronic can of worms, all resistor values must be tuned to not not disturb the user interface, any change in the flashlight, even a different main led or a different tail colour requires renewed tuning of the values. Some types of drivers will not even work with a lighted tail. I do not recommend manufacturers to add a lighted tail on their flashlights unless they really know what they are doing.
Ask emarkd if it required tuning of the resistor values. I do know that the led4power drivers (emarkd used a LD-A4 driver from led4power) work well with lighted tails, I succesfully made one with a LD3 driver. But for example the BLF-X5/X6 is very finicky, only very dim tail lights work, and with the newest low voltage main leds, or triples, it sometimes does not work at all. I think I remember trouble also with the biscotti driver.