Yesterday I bought a cheap AA zoomie flashlight on a street store.
At first I thought it was like those AA zoomie lights we can find all over the place on AliExpress. Something like that Warsun penlight zoomie .
But then I noticed it wasn’t.
This is a push-pull, not twisty zoomie (that I like), but…when I started opening it, guess what?
It is all press fit and the pill is plastic, no shelf! :o
The driver is single mode, the led is CW! So I started thinking about a mod. And so I did!
Mod:
XML2 T6 3B on aluminium PCB (filed to fit the pill) + Lumintop Tool AA V2.0 driver + silicone inside between the PCB and the driver
As the driver doesn’t have metal parts on the side to make contact with the host (as it is press fit) I added some wires to make that contact! Otherwise it wouldn’t work.
The silicone was to, somehow, help to disspate someheat from the PCB. It will not be super effective but it is probably better than having nothing
And this is the flashlight (zoomed in), compared with the Tool AA and the Livarnolux TL273:
Thanks NeutralFan
Well, that was, at least, weird to mod :zipper_mouth_face: Press fit, plastic pills and that combination of driver/pcb/pill….was fun
It trows well with the Tool AA + XML2 but it is a light for fun, mostly
I’ve been super busy at work lately but finally got some time this arvo to work on this. My soldering and execution is not real good so this is kind of a proof of concept. As a result i had bad connections etc… and it took several goes to get it to function properly.
I had a simple yet satisfying evening swapping drivers and emitters in two hosts:
S21A, LH351D 5000K, 20mm, SST40 6A
C8+, SST40 6500K, Mtn FET 17mm
This is actually my second S21A that just arrived from Mtn. Electronics. My first S21A fits all my 21700s but this one has a smaller inner diameter. I added an older convoy pocket clip but sealed it with heat shrink. It needs 6mm hex fasteners. I think the S21A is perfect for the LH351D.
I had my 5000K in the C8+ but the SST40 has quite a tight beam with this reflector. After reading about the choices of an XPL-Hi or an SST40, I chose MORE LIGHT with perhaps, a little less throw.