I put a sliced 3V 6500K XHP50.2 in my NS22 Seeker. Iām not too fond of a 6500K XHP50.2 (tint, Cree rainbow), and Iām not really fond of my NS22 Seeker (the cheapish finish mainly, and comic sans does not help), so I thought it fitting to combine the two.
And of course now my heart was not really into it, everything worked as planned, the result is , and now I wished I had waited for the neutral 3V XHP50.2 for this mod.
I did not see anyone mention yet the pad layout on the bottom of the 3V XHP50.2, looks like individually addressable dies, and the option to go 6V. To make use of all this you could use the oldschool XM-L colour Sinkpad that is still for sale here and there.
I reflowed the led on a Kerui 20mm copper DTP board (got it as a sample 2 years ago) and using a few sizes washers sliced my way down to the dies, and then cut off the sides of the silicone. One way or another, 1 out of 4 ESD wires survived all that . The picture is with the led at 1 mA. (stereo pic)
I could have gone a bit closer even to the dies.
Further mods to the host:
*bypassed the driver spring (steel), but not the tail spring (copper alloy)
*I kept the stock (FET-) driver but bypassed the big R015 resistor. Now the 3 modes are a bit messed up: high, highest, highest it is now. Maybe a different driver later.
*I replaced the led wires to short 18 AWG.
*used a butterfly-type XM-centerpiece and luckily the focus was correct.
I think I measured 16 amps at high setting, but my clamp meter does funny things lately. The 16A I think was a short moment of sanity of the meter.
Output on a 40T (almost full) at 30 seconds is 3150lm, at switch-on 3400lm. The limited output drop tells me that led is mounted properly and that the host handles this led well.
The slicing was a succes, the corona of the hotspot is not distracting at all and only mildly yellow. You have to look for it to notice it. The hotspot itself looks very nice, without dark center. This is at 5 meter on a white wall, underexposed to show the hotspot well.
And outside, first a control. I tried to match the exposure of the background in control and beamshot but the colour balance was not corrected. Big trees at 25 meter, lighted details further down the grass are up to 125 meter.
That is plenty bright for such a small light, just checked: pretty close to what my Convoy L6 with resistor mod, XHP70.2 and smooth reflector does, same size hotspot but slightly less light.