Completed my first reflow today. 3 Cree XP-E2 528nm Green on a Noctigon 20mm 3xp mcpcb. I tested it with my multimeter and was thrilled that they all lit up. This will be going into a green Convoy S2+.
You will need to enlarge the washer/spacer hole (metal or plastic) that sits on the switch, because the forward switch is larger than the reverse switch.
Also, as it is taller, you will probably need to cut or trim that inner “tongue” from the rubber cap.
When soldering the switch to the PCB, make sure the solder or the switch metal pads don’t protrude so that you don’t risk provoking short circuits.
I “stole” GetKongs T3 triple idea and did it too
FWAA TIR lens and MCPCB together with the 17mm 5A Convoy driver and a spacer built from multiple 16mm 3535 copper MCPCBs I had laying around
But I couldnt leave my FWAA in my spare parts bin so I made it into an XHP50.2 mule:
L2 love here, too. Put the SFT40 in there with a Led4Power driver and Simon’s new plastic lighted switches, 26800 single. I wonder what I will ever do with the old LD29 driver…those seem to have disappeared for good now.
Nice! What are you driving the blues at? I have some XT-E royals (453nm I think) from Digikey waiting for a blue T3 host to arrive. I’ve done a lot of exploring with UV lights and mods, curious to see what the royal blue picks up outdoors.
Thanks! They all use the 17mm Fet +7135 driver from Mountain Electronics. The emitters are using a Noctigon 3xp mcpcb. I don’t run them at Turbo, and they run just fine at the lower settings. However the only light that really doesn’t like to be driven hard is the Far Red one. It is good at the lower settings, but will start stepping down quickly if driven hard. When Simon releases his driver for Red emitters with multiple modes, I might try it. The Royal Blue and the Green will go turbo and light up the room with vivid color lol.
I’m looking forward to that blue-room. I don’t know if I’ve ever experienced that deep royal blue color up close (maybe at a concert?). I got extras to play with but I’ll probably run the stock T3 driver. I could only find the current Cree datasheet and it appears to have bins that are higher than what was probably on a previous version…could only find those previous lower bins for sale, too. So I’m not sure if the thermal resistance or max current is the same (sheet says 1.5A, graphs look good though). If one goes pop then I’ll regroup. I may do up a C8F triple with them, too.
I love all the colored lights lately, and matching hosts to boot. The C8 family that tactical grizzly did was pretty awesome to look at.
I did a refresh on an smooth bodied Emisar D4 today. Brought it up to date with Anduril 2 and reflowed in some lovely warm Nichia 219B SW 3500K.
No native Aux’s though, so that mod ’ll be for another day.