What did you mod today?

Zoomieā€™s usually have screwed down mcpcb and/or a threaded shroud over the pill that presses on the centering ring/mcpcb. These things serve the same purpose as bezel pressing down on reflector/mcpcb.

Added some glow ā€¦ sorry ā€˜turbo glowā€™ to the fwaa tonight. (apparently you canā€™t just say glow anymore, it has to be turbo :wink: )

yes i know, for me works without any

Cool! :sunglasses:
May I ask where did you get it or how did you do it?

Itā€™s not that hard. Just a bit of glow tape stuck to the inner circumference of the head :person_with_crown:

AHHH! :smiley: The same kind I normally do :stuck_out_tongue:
I just thought it was a ā€œtripleā€ glow gasket and was wondering if they were for sale out there!

I need to order some more GITD tape so I can ā€œturbo glowā€ it :wink:

I added a red channel for someone to their FW3T. Itā€™s running Anduril 2 with the stepped ramp replaced with a smooth red ramp.

I think someone has done this before to an FW3A. I recall seeing something similar a long time ago but canā€™t find the post.


:+1:

No details? What red LED? Is the red on 1x7135 like similar builds? How difficult was editing firmware to make two smooth ramps? No MCPCB pics? :slight_smile:

Fair, I forgot to take photos for a lot of the process.

Itā€™s a sst-20-dr 660nm because itā€™s what I could get with 1 day shipping from digikey. The footprint of the sst-20-dr seems to be only available in the B120 version which isnā€™t our usual 3535 footprint but has smaller pads. I only noticed after the LED wasnā€™t bouncing during the reflow like the other sst-20s. Itā€™s not an issue with just the 350mA from the 1X7135 thatā€™s powering it.

I cut the traces from the bank of 7135s and was originally feeding the red led 7X7135s but the dimmest mode was too bright so I removed 6 of them.

There was also a leaky 7135 or two on the board since the red led was dimly illuminated even when the light was off but the battery was connected. Removing 6 of the 7135s helped stop the leaking and helped make the lowest red mode dimmer than the white and the red led is still really bright with just a single 7135.

I did this mod for someone who is a pilot instructor and they wanted a red light to stop them from being blinded when flying across open water in the darkness so I made all the changes to anduril with not blinding them in mind. The light switches between the red and white modes with a triple click, and always starts on low when the modes are switched. I also added a shortcut to the red mode while the user is in the white mode.

Iā€™m not familiar with C or anduril 2 so it was hours of trial and error, changing one value then flashing it and seeing if it was the right parameter until everything was perfect.

:+1:
nice work!

The guy I modified it for really liked it which was a good feeling after the hours of work I put into perfecting it. :smiley:

Excellent FW3P :beer:

make more, you will soon be rich and famous :person_with_crown:

Any beam shots of the dual emitter? Curious how/if it changed the beam.

Itā€™s still quite round and nice. I have a video with similar setup somewhere in this thread

Convoy C6

Of course itā€™s just plain old C8 with an aluminum spacer

Leds are the mix of 3000K and 5000K Luxeon V2.
The led4powerā€™s 6A driver in DD mode gives 8.5A on tail, so Iā€™m guessing around 3000lm.

The build process:

I donā€™t know if itā€™s the case of an old type C8 host, but mine shorted leds wires, so I had to isolate the screw:

ā€¦ and also the fully tightened bezel gave me this:

;(

Tint comparision between K9.3 SST-20 4000K (left) and C6 (right):

Album with all pictures

Nice, what optic is that ?

Ledil Anna 40-6

Thanks JaredM.

Cheap eBay microscope got an upgrade

The little coin cells finally died but instead of replacing them I replace the whole thing with a QX5252 circuit that is powered by a single AAA battery. The cool white emitter has also been replaced with 4000k rngwn 5mm