What did you mod today?

Did the Wurkkos TS21:

1. Main LEDs swapped to Sst20 2700K.
2. Red “main aux” connected with the Amber.
3. Amber + Red resistor changed to 1800 Ohm.
4. 3x slow flashing RGB + 22K Ohm resistor each (always on, btw).
5. Blue glow gasket.

More images/videos at Wurkkos TS21 Mod - Album on Imgur

Thanks for the tip! I’ll maybe piss around with the stock driver some and see what I can accomplish, but a full reboot may be in store. Anduril is nice but not necessary here. An ultra simplified ramping UI is all I would want, maybe batt check and that’s it. FET +1 would be all I need as this isn’t much of a ‘user’ but a toy.

I agree about the reflectors. That’s actually why in the old days I never bought an SRK and got two M6’s. This time I heat colored the bezel to reduce the reflections and will use a thicker o-ring to clock it such that the wells line up with the valley of the crenulations.

My other M6 was converted yearsss ago to 2S2P with a handmade pcb adapter plate. I’m still proud of it. But it’s momentary only direct drive into 3 XHP50 gen1s with perfect tint. All my picture links are dead but this was my mod thread back then… [WIP] Supfire M6 series 18650 conversion (2S2P for now -- 4S possible). I’ll get some pics reuploaded. Anyway, I’m contemplating if and what I want to do with that one. Maybe sell it, maybe let it collect dust, maybe update it with 70.3 HIs, I don’t know.


Did a basic mod today, put an SFT40 in a Convoy S2+ together with a BLF A6 driver.
Very nice combo!

Looks nice. I haven’t kept myself updated on LEDs for a long time, but if I remember correctly those LEDs can take a lot of current. Where do you get them?

To be precisely, it’s the identical to the one BLF member Djozz tested Here
I purchased them from Simon’s official AE Convoy store.

It was a long time ago I modded or built a light, a couple of years I think. Now that my 17mm boost driver is working I need a light to do field testing of firmware functionality rather than in a lab environment. As all my drivers and firmware support momentary, clicky or dual switch I naturally wanted a light with a momentary and clicky switch. I don’t have any dual switch lights that take my 17mm driver with that huge XAL7070 inductor so I made a driver for my Convoy L4. I took the lazy option and just scaled up the outer diameter and added the momentary switch:

The driver I had in it before had a very large spring pad and spring but because I took the lazy option and didn’t re-design anything I have to use the brass button which the 17mm was designed to use. Flashing is simple with through hole vias:

I first made the driver 12V and used a XHP50.3 in it but I must have done some bad reflows, two darn LEDs burnt out at shortly over 2 amps. I replaced the three resistors that set voltage and current for 6 volt 8 amps and stuffed in a 6V 5000K MT-G2. I kept the LED wires long so it’s not so finicky to swap LEDs:

Because the driver has no spring but a brass button, the battery was loose inside and didn’t make contact so I searched through my drawers and found some spacers kiriba-ru made for me a long time ago for another project I have yet to start on. It’s not optimal but it’s good enough for testing. If I really want to keep this Convoy L4 with a boost driver I’ll go ahead and design a designated driver with a huge spring pad for it instead of this 17mm driver with brass button, enlarged diameter and heavy copper spacer.

So now I finally have an actual light to test boost driver and firmware functionality in. I had been away from firmware and driver development for a long time before getting back into it with this boost driver, now I hope to finally get my darn firmware finished.

Love it Mike C! I haven’t seen an L4 in forever. I couldn’t even place the model name from memory, but I always had one on my shopping list back in the day. The MTG2 is a good fit for this host imo. Just feels right :slight_smile: :beer:

Thanks! The MT-G2 is hard to beat, fell in love with them when I put three in my M6. I should make a new driver for that one too. I hope you get your photos back on your thread, but with that said, the same fate of hosted images happened to my own M6 thread, and I am just too lazy to do anything about it.

Hey, if you do make a new driver for the M6, make two, ok? haha But seriously I’d buy one. I’ll see if I can find those old images on an old HDD. Need to find it and my SATA cable. Gotta think… early 2015 was too early for my Lenovo but past the time I think I crashed my old WinXP netbook. There’s a gap I can’t fill from memory what pc I was using… weird.

I’ll definitely consider it. OSH Park deliver three boards and I only have one M6. Anyhow, I looked at my old M6 thread and felt a bit sad that the images are broken, it’s the first light I built with a driver design of my own, so I revived it with new image links for nostalgic reasons: Mod: My SupFire M6 "BMF" edition (new beamshots in OP).
Your turn! :smiley:

Hah! Sweet! Challenge accepted :smiley: I really miss some of the folks from those days and how small and tight knit the community was. Most everyone was a contributor back then… in the time before BLF specials and groupbuys and coupon wars.

I feel the same nostalgia for this particular light. The mods I did in that thread were also some of my first dedicated and thoughtful designs. Even though my soldering skills and equipment were terrible in those days… I didn’t have flux and used a craptastic radioshack pencil iron… I’m still proud of the concepts.

Emisar D1s, 7.5amp CC D4V2 Driver with FET enabled, sbt90.2 Delensed LED, Red lighted switch. Running Molicel P26a. will run some amp and CD testing this weekend.

Great work Artie! I’m going to wager 225kcd assuming amps just under 20. That beam looks damn good though, buddy! :beer:

BTW, that’s a ballsy move with that centering ring near them pretty bond wires.

thanks Jared! I'm hoping it hits that high KCD! I still need to measure my sft40 version.

thank, I've ruined a couple doing it that way, but it actually makes me feel more comfortable then delensing and or using the centering ring . I hate delensing The problem is the bezel won't install all of the way without delensing..

but those bond wires, they scare me when they're delensed!

it is a BEAST now :))

After reading on max’ post (link ) I made a triple with CSLPM1. Using a K1 host (unknown mfg,) and an H17A - 5 Amp driver – all from Kaidomain.

My build in the album with some descriptive narrations.

My only setback was an issue with the switch. The design of the tail cap makes for the compressed spring to slightly disconnect the switch. Go figure. Without the battery everything checked out continuity-wise. A thin SS washer solved this.

For the driver, I piggybacked a 20 mΩ to the set 10 mΩ. This gives me about 7½ Amps and should be suitable for the size and weight of the host ~ 25 W. I think these drivers can be pushed to 10 Amps but I had some overdriven failures in the past so I’m better safe than sorry.

I don’t really like the paleness of the host. I wanted a darker dessert/bronze brown. After reading up on baking the anodization, I tried my hand at it. Well, it seems this particular color doesn’t ‘toast’. Maybe my oven isn’t hot enough – 260ºC. No harm done, I’ll live with it, except I’ll be finding some covering. The feel in my hands is too slippery.

I like the creamy-white and the hotspot to spill transition. The whiteness is fine for exterior use. It’s meant to be a pocketable thrower (but it’s not really).

2000 lumens – conservative value from my un-calibrated lightbox. 15.5 kCd @ 3 m. – not impressive as the single emitter MantaRay S21 gives me 25 kCd and is underpowered at 1000 lumens.

K1

Joy of Tir
This Olight SMini has been transformed from a disgusting Low CRI LED to a gorgeous High CRI light.

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more pics in this album:

and a few more details in this thread:

Nice Mod — I have quite a few lights I’d to try that Optic in — :+1:

That looks great. My go-to light when I’m at work is a S1R II with a 3000K 90+ CRI XM-L2 (factory optic). It’s surprisingly rosy. Duv is –0.003.

It’s an excellent light; small, lightweight and a very simple UI.

what a beautiful light and amazing optic! Great work, Jon!!

I love that Olight UI.