Darosk, beam is decent but of course it spreads out with real distance. Lights up good out to around 150-200M.
Why did you file down the pill, couldn’t you use a 16mm mcpcb instead ?
I did it 3 times actually, before I settled on 300 Ohms. 
I made a mistake with the order- I meant to order the 16mm size for a different flashlight. The K12 had a 4000k SST20 in it (that I wasn’t impressed by) and it was the only flashlight the 20mm LED could be fitted into. It worked out well in the end- better colour temp, more spread and throw- using the same driver.
Getting LEDs , drivers etc. in Australia is frustrating and involves long wait of over 4 weeks. Plus the Aus $ isn’t fairing well against the US $.
I’m still in my flashlight modding sabattical, but I did mod another knife today.
I inherited my mother’s spinach chopping knife, with which she has been making spinach for more than 40 years. She also used it for cutting out the weeds between the grass in the back garden.
The state of the knife was better than it looks, the wooden handles had rotten/broken so they are gone, not sure what happened to the pins, and under the handles some deep pits had rusted in, but the blade is in good shape and so is the side of the handle section. And it is still dead straight.
So I made a new french oak handle for it.
I started this weeks ago, and bought some brass screws on aliexpress, that came in today. The screws are 4mm diameter so I had to ream the holes in the knife with a 4mm drill. The hole most to the back was easy, but the other two were a pain, the steel was almost as hard as the dril bit! They did a good harden job back in the days.
The wood and the tang of the knife were treated with boiled linseed oil to preserve the knife.
It was not a great precision job, the first time I made a knife handle this way, and the screws are a bit larger than I imagined, but it is a working knife again, and the not so great handles fit the old knife well enough I think 
I thought of sharpening it again, but I have enough sharp knives so for the moment I keep it this way.
very nice handles, and relic knife… thanks for the pics…
the handles look like they are upside down though…. must be my perspective…
Looks nice Djozz ! Although they do not look 100% symmetrical in the last pic 
I did notice your lower than usual amount of modding posts, but didnt know you have some sort of flashlight sabbatical , any specific reason for the sabbatical ?
i finally learned how to swap emitters in my fraz; tried about 4 in there so far once i figured it out…
Not one reason:
*my motivation for the hobby was in part coupled to the lightning fast development of leds from 2011-2018, developments since then are much slower, not much gain anymore. Except for LEP but LEP modules are expensive, are difficult to mod with and are already fairly optimally used in stock lights (not like back then, we made throwers that throwed more than twice as far as any stock light). I may have a go at those though.
*several big developments in the world make me worry, for me worries are not good for hobby.
*our son’s health has been pretty bad for half a year. But he is much better now
> *our son’s health has been pretty bad for half a year. But he is much better now
My heart goes out to your family, best wishes for your son’s continued recovery.
Sorry to hear, dont worry too much Jos, if you need a listening ear, you can always contact me.
Health always goes first, good to hear that his healthyness is improving!
What a nice way to breathe new life into something with such sentimental attachment and a real working history!
You could put a nice high CRI emitter on the front end of that handle, you know….
… with a pressure switch.
Chop veggies in a dark room, let the kiddo sleep. 
Found a mod I may attempt this winter and thought you may enjoy this one: https://gaggiuino.github.io/
Arduino controlled espresso maker mod. I know we have quite a coffee thread going on here with some connoisseurs.
I’d like to see how this comes out. I have a Rancilio Silvia that I modded with a PID kit. Been using it every day since 2006, still going strong.
Long time… years… since I did anything FL related.
My modded L6 went to a better home a long time ago and while I had the parts I never did make another.
L6 with 70.3 4000K and Mtn Fet+1 D4 ramping. Also made the E-SW light. But still to bright IMO. Kinda quit after 6 resistor swaps. Kept the OP reflector but I do have SMO to try again. Wasn’t happy with last SMO on the stock light.
Took the L6 apart and this was the first thing I found. Emitter shelf has black anno and someone took a grinder to the emitter base surface. GRRR this build just got Longer.
Got it lapped flat after some time…
E-SW still a bit too bright in complete dark
But not that bad in day in daylight.
ML is nice with 4 squares looking even.
Pretty happy with the Spot. Pulls 17A at tailcap for over 15sec till it starts dropping, Old Lii50A black. Haven’t messed with thermals and probably wont.
Nice VWP, the L6 is a very sweet host! I too just put one together, mine is a stubby with a single cell tube from an L2 and utilizing an SFT40 emitter. Richard built the driver, I flashed it with Anduril.
Intended to use an 90.2, 20mm shelf needs to be larger. Not up to doing that at this time hence plan B. Lol
Makes me realize just how much work I used to put into lights!
Looks very nice, congrats! 
More playing with the L6…
Trying to flash Anduril to the MtnE 30mm Fet+1 tiny85 for 2S config. I tried the “anduril.2021-12-13.emisar-d4.hex” file and could not get it to run full turbo. Was only drawing about 4A with on and 2C. Tried again with “anduril.2020-03-18.emisar-d4.hex” file and got it back to 17A on full turbo.
Was like it wasn’t kicking in the Fet…
Any hints here?
Anyway it seems fine now.
Is one Anduril 1 and one Anduril 2? Turbo behavior has changed in Anduril 2. To get turbo, first ramp up to ceiling, then do 2C. It can be changed in the config menu, check the manual.