What did you mod today?

Get the paste:

The liquid stuff might as well be isopropyl. The paste will stick around longer for when you have a stubborn joint. (granted you will have to clean the sticky residue off after)

A few simple mods last night:

Swapped the clip on my Zebralight SC52w triple. Previous clip is a custom deep-carry titanium. New clip is titanium from a Jetbeam TCR-01. Testing to see which one I like better.

Previous clip:

New clip:

I also did a couple mods on my Sofirn SC21, including changing the stock clip to the black one in the last picture.

I also swapped out the 5000K LH351D, for a 4000K SST-20, 95 CRI, FD2 bin. The result is a more concentrated brighter hotspot, more throw, warmer tint and better CRI (especially R9).

> New clip is titanium from a Jetbeam TCR-01

the clip looks nice… Im still speechless over your Triple Zebra… congrats!

for others who dont have access to that clip…

here are a couple other options available for purchase direct from info (at) jetbeamlight.com

The long one, I think costs $2 + ship… they also sell the short version for $1 iirc… (they come with the screws and wrench). Same hole pattern as the Ti clip for TCR-1.

it helps if you provide Jetbeam a photo of the clip you want… feel free to use this image if you like:

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I do not know if they still have the TCR-1 clip available (identical to McGizmo clip, but the jetbeam version is half as thick). I prefer the short clips myself.

Nice! I was running low on those Jetbeam clips. Looks like I should contact them to order some more, plus some new RRT-01 drivers for my old lights.

I’m quite pleased with the modded Zebralight. So far it is working great. No issues. Heat sinking is excellent and the output is very high. On a fresh Vapcell H10, maximum output is actually brighter than my FW3As with SST-20s and 18650 cells inside.

I think I lucked out with this batch of emitters. These FD2 bin SST20s also have the best tint I’ve seen in any SST-20. I thought the tint in some of my FW3As was good, but this is much rosier.

Swapped some emitters in a couple FWAAs this week. Aluminum got 219b sw35, and Ti got 219 sw45k from Simon. Also cut out some glow gaskets out of glow tape.

Very nice Pairing…
thanks for the great photos!

Hello, I show you a small but effective modification, a trustfire t70 that had 1860lm and 220,000CD from stock. Now after stacking a resistor R091 on top of the stock R020 it is giving 2100lm and 250,000CD. The measurements in the tail with the current clamp changed from the 3.7A of stock to the current 4.8A; I don’t know how many will get to the led, maybe half? also I also gave the MCPCB some sandpaper and put new thermal paste

the color and the projection of the led is very good, I think the tint is warmer than what I have seen in other reviews

since I show the olight m3xs-ut javelot I tell you the modification that I made, very similar to that of the t70. I stacked two R500 + R100 resistors on top of the stock R030, I measured on the tail with the stock 2.04A clamp meter, and after the modification I measure 2.82A. This javelot is one of the latest, it has an xpl-hi, I think V3 because before the modification it gave me almost 1400lm and now almost 1800lm

I would be careful with this Olight.
It’s a very popular model locally and I often get it for a repair, models with older driver (2 board version) hardly ever had a driver issue, in 90% of cases it was an issue with the LED (easy fix).
Opposite to this, I had about 5 light with this new driver sent for a repair and it was alway an driver issue + I only managed to repair one of them.

Thanks I will take it into account although I can do little, the day it explodes I will put another driver and an sft40. by the way do you know what version of xplhi it has?

The modded pair are complete! D1s (sft40, 7.5a driver) D1 (CULPM1, 7.5a driver) . Also attached is the before and after of the D1s beam, I modified a 4040 centering ring and the beam is nearly perfect now!

sorry for the huge pictures, did this on the phone..

Good work on the focusing. The result looks good. If you take a bit over exposed picture you can see even better that your new beam is very parallel lines on the edge of the main hot spot.

Great work on the beam Artie! Knew you could do it :beer:

What a big improvement in the beam, how did you get it? I have some beams like this and I don’t know whether to sand the centering ring from above or below

I got around to trying the SST-20 4000K 95 CRI FD2 bin emitters I had laying around. Wow! Great tint. Not green even at low power levels. Much better than any other SST-20s I’d tried.

I had 8 of them, and over the last week installed all of them into the following lights:

  • Zebralight SC52w triple
  • Sofirn SC21 - big improvement in tint, color temp and CRI over the stock 90 CRI 5000K LH351D.
  • Jetbeam TCR-01 - this light is using the 2020 RRT-01 driver. The SST-20 looks much better than the sliced Dogfarts LH351 that I previously had in this light.
  • Lumintop Tool AA Ti
  • Eagletac D25a Ti early version (no brass pill) - high output since this light also had a driver swap to a FET driver. Head gets quite hot.
  • Eagletac D25a Ti late version (brass pill) - dimmer, but still looks good.

In every case, the new emitter was a noticeable improvement over what I had in the light. Big improvement over the XPL HI and sliced Dogfarts those lights used to sport. I’m quite happy with these emitters. So happy that I just ordered 15 more.

Where from?

Kaidomain

Stock its not HI version, just regular CW XPL dedomed but they have a good dedoming recipe so the tint shift is not huge.

thank you! And thank you for the advice I didn't know that. I know very little woth the photography aspect of things lol

thanks JaredM! :))