What did you mod today?

I know. Some have a PCB, some only cardboard carrier for LEDs. They’re all made from sheet metal. Terrible.

Solarforce!
Black L2P with T head. Luxeon V2 4000k
Blue L2P. LH351D 5000k 90cri with cut and polished lens. I did it first time with this led and I can say that this is the easiest led to cut to dome.
Both have “Biscotti” 5A driver.
I think I used too long copper stripe for blue L2P because I had a serious problem to push it. I hope I won’t have to pull it out because I don’t know how to do it.
I did this build before “Barkuti described a problem with ”Biscotti” driver”:【convoy】S21E XHP50.3 HI available now - #2554 by Barkuti, and I didn’t even notice it. But everything works.

Wow, great work, the look beautiful :wink:
That dedoming is top!!!

Beamshots demanded when possible :innocent:

Thanks!
Maybe I’ll take some pictures tomorrow.
I can’t do them on the white wall, but I’ll see what I can do in the field.

You can use plastic tubing 18-18.5mm diameter or what will clear the I.D of the battery tube, that will only contact the base of the aluminum pill and just pound/press it out…

I’m going to get such a tube… Once I used to take it out using 18350 and 18650 batteries, but this one sits so tight that I’m not going to risk it.

That dedoming looks impeccable! Did you do it for tint or beam profile?

Actually both. I was hoping the tint would get a little warmer and it happened. Although not much.

My first outdoor beamshots (blue and black).

Sorry for the blurry picture.

I like this one the best…

Good job :+1:

L2 several posts back. My first thrower. I even like it, considering I prefer flooders.

Thanks for the beamshots :wink:
I like the Luxeon V2 effect more than the Samsung , but they both look great :wink:
Well done :+1:

Looks great MascaratumB! Did the driver drop straight in? What size is it and does USB charging still work? Tempted to pick one up.

Thanks hodor! :wink:
Well, the led4power driver fitted in without issues, as the original driver also has 17mm diameter (with 2 small flaps that fit the “pill”, to avoid rotation).

There is no USB charging , because the new driver doesn’t have it. The charging port is implemented in the original driver, so when I took it out, it stopped working.

The rubber cover is still there, though (I may need to glue it to prevent eventual water infiltration).

Even without charging, this is a great host to make a DIY pocket thrower with an Osram led (Convoy 18350s tubes fit :stuck_out_tongue: ).
It may be kind of hard to center it correctly in case you don’t have appropriate gaskets. The beam is not 100% perfect due to that, but it throws a lot :wink:

You’re a bad influence on my wallet

Ahaha, thank you for the compliment :money_mouth_face: :smiling_imp: :innocent:

If you need any more info, let me know :+1:

In those pics the EagleEye light looks like it has the best focus of all of them. Not sure if that is due to the smaller die and camera settings or if you are just being modest but I cant see anything wrong with it.

Thanks contactr !! :+1:
I guess it has to do with small die led and the bigger reflector (if compared with the S2 and S2+ and the leds they are using). Camera was in auto, if I recall correctly
However, my point is that it is very hard to center the Osram W1 and make a “perfect” pencil beam .
Below you can see that the “flower” shape is not completely uniform, and believe me that this was the best I could do without proper centering gaskets.

I un/screwed the bezel/reflector dozens of times and tried at least 3 different gaskets to make it look well. I ended up “blackening” the white gasket to avoid more reflection and artifacts and it also improved a little :wink:

After reviewing the Wurkkos TS70, I knew that I really liked it for it’s heft, solid build, and brightness. However, I wasn’t really a fan of the UI. Hold-for-off really gets on my nerves.

So… brain transplant! I took out the PIC and put in a attiny412 with a tweaked version of RampingIOS / D4V2 UI:

  • When powered up, the light comes in on turbo instead of the usual double blink then off.
  • Swapped tactical and lockout modes so that lockout is 4 clicks instead of 6
  • Added momentary moon and secondary low from lockout (inspired by Anduril)

Oh, and while I had it apart, I gave the XHP70.2 a slice. Overall, I like it much better now!!

Moderately simple mod yesterday, did an emitter swap on an Olight S1R II, that nice limited purple colorway. 3000k, 90CRI XM-L2. Looks real pretty.

Gonna swap the other S1R II with the same emitter and fix the misaligned bezel on the first soon too, but pretty happy with this choice of emitter.