What did you mod today?

It’s pretty significant, especially in the highest mode. I really hated the stock emitter.

What pill was in it?

The one on the right

Cool the good one from my testing. I’m getting 589lm with just an emitter/board swap XP-L V4 3C tested on my T/A muakka tube.

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Been removing the good drivers and putting them into the round mcpcb pills…

Resistor modded a few… of the others… just to play with…

Wow, how did you get the potting out?! These things are built like tanks

It’s a RTV silicone potting… I soak them in a very strong thinner. I take a small drill bit and by hand remove the silicone down to the driver contact board, the 2 holes opposite the lead holes are for filling/ venting the pill, remove the silicone from those 2 areas and soak in thinner. It takes time and patients but eventually the silicone breaks down enough to push the driver out. I used to hot air the spring contact board off, now I just soak them.

You’re a better man than me, I know I’d get frustrated and mess that up.

I’d really like to do a brass bar 18350 conversion next, just trying to plan out how to do it

I made up some brass signal tubes for my FW3 shorty mods and machined the tubing smaller for the FW3/NovaTac mods. So I had 3-4 FW3 signal tubes left over. Now I’m out of brass tubing. But then I figured I would flap out the battery tube of the NovaTac which was about .005” and then I cut down the FW3 tube to fit.

My Last FW3/NovaTac Triple using the FW3 driver and cut down signal tube…and clip…

That looks awesome! Very cool

Thanks… :+1:

What pill has SPL-120 if you have seen them? I wanna add one to my lab but i’m nit sure about the driver

I have not seen any SPL-120’s just the SPA SPL-120’s and the 3 older ones I had with the SS Black bezel to me is the better ones of the SPA’s from my experience. I don’t know much about the other models.

Edit. Sorry… I misread your question… I had 120M locked in my head… I got a 120M coming… a Black anodized with a clip… my first… All my others have been in the weapon light kit SPA SPL-120’s.

I’ve modded a couple 120s, they can vary.

Oh yeah, so anodized bezel ring has lower output than the model with black bezel ring. Bummer...

Mine had the pill that has the skinny straight mcpcb opening.

I think the output is pretty good with the stock driver and an LED swap, it actually turned out better than I anticipated. Really happy with the light now.

I agree on that. Novatac pills with HS opening just for a P4 emitter are the ones with most lumens after emitter swap.

Those with larger opening in the pill for emitter and mcpcb, those are the ones with less powerfull driver.
I hope i’m right but as i read in Kawiboy and CRX posts, it seems it is like that.

Anyone know a good place to buy a clip for these things?

I use a FW3 clip you just have to open up the I.D. a bit…

Ask Neal (neals gadgets) or Victor at Lumintop to hook you up.

I’m an idiot, didn’t even think about that, thanks!