Just a quick post, I’ve had chance to have a play today, I’ve also now seen turbo mode, on the meter at least but a rock solid 3.04a is hiding in this light.
Now, reflector IS plastic, what I’m thinking is that with this and the poor assembly, we’re on the second, poorer iteration, at least from manafont.
What I found today was the card board retainer was needed to keep the board in the pill, I’ve now built up a little solder and made the driver a good press fit. The pill was loose in the threads, its now tight recheck current at switch :-
1.94a high, .96a medium, .46a low. Rats, same as before.
Stripped out the switch board, eh? Why are the switch mounting posts anodized? Attacked the anodizing, recheck, 1.94a bugger! Test from switch to one of the screws, 1.94 glance away……glance back 3.04a! How the? Retest, 1.94, prod about 3.04a again. I’ve now reflowed the solder on the springs, reflowed the switch connections still can’t get 3 amps without using the meter probes. And I can’t even flash it on the wall without dropping back to 1.94a.
I think I need to find my m3 taps, retap the switch board screw holes to ensure there is no anodizing in them and replace the crappy counter sunk screws with decent brass m3 screws.
The tail cover screws look to be m2.5, I’ll have to dig around as I think I have some.
It’s frustrating because I know its in there, its not a hidden mode, just a crappy path some where in the circuit.
Pictures up later.