I already have a board with secondaries, the one commonly used with Dragon drivers. That board uses a common + for the primary and secondary LEDs and separate ground cables.
Is there a driver mod and firmware for the FW3A to work with this board? I prefer to use it as I already have it and I also want to use a turboglow gasket between it and the optic, something obviously impossible if there is a second board in there.
So, I got a FW3A intending to turn it into a green dragon.
I got the Steve Ku trit button, a drilled for trits Carclo optic and filled them both with green trits. I got a dragon mcpcb with green secondaries and replaced the primaries with Nichia 219b sw45, which I prefer. Then oppened the light to see the driver board is a larger diameter and that it makes contact with the button via a tube, so I will have to keep the original driver.
It is a nice driver, with the Anduril firmware, for sure, but I want green secondaries on it.
I saw JC Customs offers FW3A lights with secondaries so I contacted them via Facebook and asked to buy a driver. I got an answer saying they do not sell drivers but I could send mine to be modified and flashed with the required firmware. I replied I would be interested in that and asked for the cost and the location where I should send it. I never heard back. I have send a couple more messages which have been received and also ignored.
I saw there is another option for a secondary board available for purchase and a modified firmware and instructions to flash it, but I really want to be able to use the turboglow gasket I got that fits the dragon MCPCB.
Does anyone know of a solution to my situation? I would be happy to do any required mods myself (hardware wise) and follow any instructions to flash any required firmware (and purchase the required cable / adaptor to do it).
I forgot to mention, for anyone who does not know, that the dragon MCPCB needs common positive and separate negatives for the primary and secondary LEDs.
Thank you KawiBoy1428, but I believe this picture shows a mod used for a secondary board, which holds the secondary LEDs. Not the Dragon MCPCB. As mentioned before, the Dragon uses the same positive for primary and secodnary LEDs. Does this mod work with a Dragon MCPCB and if so, how?
Put the primary led’s on the board in reverse polarity then everything will be common cathode then run a tiny wire to the anodes of each secondary led. That’s how I did my first mod before the aux led boards were available. As of yesterday though I swapped back to the standard mcpcb and lexel aux board and it’s so much better looking!
the glow gasket is pointless with the lexel board cause the lexel board is either 1) Always on or 2) on when the light is off so no need for a glow board
dragon driver uses the XR-E leds as secondaries so much brighter and they do not come on when the light is off like aux boards do with low power