It is this same one, the post that you link is about finding out that the bulb was not a led, so the mod was not as straightforward as bypassing the switch and adding a resistor. So I collected some parts and today I did the actual mod with the boost circuit.
Still 260 micro-amps I guess, the QX5252 is supposed to deliver a constant current and in this case I made it so low that a near-empty battery should still deliver that.
I was thinking this the entire time I read the post! “Didn’t someone do this already? Deja vu?” I’m glad someone else remembered it as well. Great spectrum on that original
Swapped a 4000K LH351D into a JETBeam Mini-One! Much better than the XP-G3. Wasn’t too bad but the bezel is definitely glued and was a PITA to get off.
I had to make a new bezel on this copper light because the focus wasn’t right. I rubbed off some of the patina with the constant handling doing the mod.
I finally got around to fitting the lume1 driver to the TiCu so it now matches the damascus :heart_eyes:
I modified an Astrolux A01. It had the dreaded next memory mode (NMM), so I tried the pencil mod trick.
Here’s the flashlight and head:
I used a tweezers to removed the pill:
I wasn’t able to reach the capacitor on the driver for the pencil mod trick and eventually the negative LED wire broke off. But then I was able to write across the capacitor with a pencil and put everything back together:
Unfortunately the NMM stayed the same. So I added some more pencil to the capacitor and then surprisingly it kept the mode to only low. I then removed some of it with a toothpick, and what do you know, it worked! After all these years of dealing with NMM, the flashlight finally works like it should.