Now, I have no idea if anyone else should order custom as well. I did tell them that if all goes well I'd be telling my friends and they will get more orders.
I'm the crash test dummy again. If anyone orders, please tell me about it. Perhaps PM me and I'll tell you my order number so you can quote it if you want the same thing.
What I do is grind or file the tip down to a longer narrower point with a slight curve or hook and retin it. This allows me to get in around the other chips. A magnifying lamp REALLY helps.
Thanks to victori, I contacted KD with my own request and they said it should be fine, send them an order number of 5ea of these drivers and they will look into modifying them... I requested:
1. Original setup
2. Original setup
3. High - Low2 (10%)
4. Low2 (10%) - High
5. High - Low2 - Strobe
6. Low2 - High - Strobe
7. High - Med (30%) - Low (5%)
8. Low (5%) - Med (30%) - High
This should give me unlimited possibilities of modding for XPG at full power, XML at full power (by default) and adding 4 more chips for total of 4.5A for Triple XPG or Nichia... Should be awesome if they fulfill my request... fingers crossed... If they do, I know I'll never buy any other linear driver as this would cover for everything... :-)
It would be nice to see this driver be able to handle using a single primary 123 battery. I don't know what would need changing in order to have that happen....it looks more specifically suited for 3.7v not 3.0v.
Can anyone spread some "light" on that for me? (pun intended :) )
Question : Has anyone tried giving a good tap to the flashlight that has one of theese drivers installed?
I recently bought two KD 6x7135 V2 LED Driver 2280mA , I've installed them in two UltraFire XM-L T6 WF-504B , used different settings , and if I tap anyone of them while on High Mode, it automaticaly goes to Medium Mode, the memory mode S1 brige is connected so even if the battery would disconnect for a fraction of a second it wouldn't have to do this. I've noticed this odd thing because I'm using them on my bicycle...
yes mine switches too if I hit it..a solution is to snug up the battery with tape or cardboard shims and/or adding a small standard p60 spring to the existing spring..I had to add springs to the old 105c drivers because the stock ones wouldn't contact the battery..i'll have to do the same thing to these drivers..
here is a link to pictures of what I did with the extra spring..the copper wire was left as it was more hassle to remove it than to just leave it..
The spring was also my first tought , probably when you tap it , for a fraction of a second there's a weak contact at the + end, and because of this the voltage drops below 2.8 V and the protection kick's in , which sets the output to 35 % ...
yeah the spring rate on these drivers is really stiff..so any shot is going to lift the battery off the spring and not allow for a compensation like you get with these weaker p60 springs..it's really easy to fit the new spring on the existing spring..you just have to make sure the diameter of the part going on the stock spring is tight then feed solder to join..