I just updated my first post. Here is a quick summary of the current status:
1) The LH351D’s in 4000K are about to arrive.
2) I have ordered the 30mm driver and MF01 aux led board from Lexel. I may get it in early February.
3) Some copper rods with 16mm and 20mm driver that I already have will be cut to length and used for the spacer along with a 6mm thick copper plate (on the way).
4) I don’t know where my Sofirn Q8 side switch is currently, maybe it shows up in time. If not I will recover a switch from another flashlight.
5) The hot plate for reflowing will most likely arrive too late so the hot air station will be used once again. Maybe with a new MCPCB and fresh soldering paste it will not be too difficult to melt. Reflowing seven leds at once is already a challenge, just figure with 18 leds…
I expect to start the build in the first week of February. First I will fit the spacer, then reflow the leds and finally solder the PCB, switch, aux leds and driver and assemble everything.
UPDATE: All the parts and some modding supplies have arrived now! So let the modding begin!
These are the things I have been waiting for. Note that the hot plate for reflowing has arrived shortly after I posted that I don’t expect it to arrive in time.
Interested/following this build. With the size and ability to soak up heat on this L6, I’m hoping this would be an ultimate turbo run time monster. The MF01S is nice in a small size, but turbo run time is lacking.
Thank you for following, YogibearAl. I assume that the turbo runs longer with the copper spacer I will use but the total runtime will be less than the MF01S.
Here are some more pictures and a complete parts lineup. Only the Sofirn Q8 switch is missing.
Also, the batteries that I will use in this flashlight have arrived, the Golisi S43 with 30A continuous discharge rate.
Look what has arrived on last Friday: my Sofirn SWITCHES:
You don’t see any switches? Well, me neither!
But seriously, I won’t complain at all about getting BLF Q8 drivers instead of switches. That’s a nice surprise and an incredibly good deal because I always have good use for those drivers.
The only problem remaining would be that I need a switch for my build. So I thought I will take the switch out of my Sofirn C8F host and see if I can get the green and red indicator leds to work with Lexel’s driver. It would be awesome to get a red switch when the battery is low.
Looking Good ” Skylight ”
Cannot wait to see more
I like the 18 gauge wire, some of my lights need that too.
Also you have a sweet hotplate too ” UYUE 946-1010 LED Display Preheating Platform ”
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- Removed the anodisation from the parts inside the flashlight that will be in contact with the copper spacer. This may improve the thermal contact.
- Also, I drilled a hole in the copper plate where the wires will pass through. The ‘legs’ of the copper spacer needed some filing to maximise the contact surface with the flashlight body. With my hand saw they got a bit different lengths and are slightly crooked.
- Soldered some 30 AWG wires to the switch and prepared 28 AWG wires for the aux leds.
- The silicone switch cover needed to be shortened a bit, otherwise the switch wouldn’t have worked.