Review: Small Sun ZY-T08 2 x 18650 (Parallel)

Awesome! I knew you'd find Turbo! Keep us updated on what you find that "fixes" it to maintain the "Turbo"!

-Garry

Well, the only things left in circuit are the switch, the switch board itself, the screws and the threads into the body. I’m slightly worried about it turning out to be the board itself tbh. :expressionless:

Can you do like CheapThrills (comment#177) and measure current with the body removed (cells held up against the driver/head)?

-Garry

With a bit of messing, yes I believe so, one cell would do it - we draw 3a off one cell in any decent c8/p60 xm-l. I’m less worried now, just had a shower and figured out how to build a copper switch sandwich. I just need a 5a reverse clicky to make it worthwhile.

Has anyone else that’s had a look in the pill considered that it could be filled in with a nice hunk of ally/copper. It sinks well into the head, but a nice big lump would help cooling, hell if you had a lathe, you could bore the face off, bore a press fit copper slug with a square mounting post. Direct bond a u3 to the copper post and solder in a 3mode sst-50 driver. 5a copper bonded xm-l u3 ala match could be interesting……

Ok, I see!
Thanks 8)

Reflector is plastic, I stand corrected, the plastic mold they use even has what looks like machining marks.

So it was always plastic that looked like alum?

this is mine, aluminium:

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Not the best image, but notice the white plastic locating ring at the base. This reflector is plastic.

As I said above, possibly two iterations, there are certainly discrepancy’s.

Hmm... where did you two buy your T08 from?

Manafont. I’ll post everything up later, got tied up last night.

Tell me something, does the head unscrew here:

I can't get mine to unscrew here.

-Garry

I didn’t try too hard, but I doubt it - the pill extends from the base of the taper down all the way too the base of the fins.

So we can't access the emitter mounting? Or are people removing the bezel and reaching down from there? I was thinking to put the body in a vise and try cranking on it a little harder, but thought I'd ask first.

-Garry

Remove the head from the body, you can see two Ali rings and the driver, the inner ring is the pill. Mine was loose, I’d already removed the bezel, lense and reflector, there are no divets anywhere to aid removal, you could either pop out the driver and drill two 1/16th holes or just improvise.

There are a lot of threads, over an inch of the buggers. The pill unscrews from the body side of the head.

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See the inner Ali ring around the driver? That’s the pill.

Thankyou Mazda hatch.

Ok, I gotcha! Picture is worth a thousand words! I knew which part was the pill, but didn't realize it could be unscrewed from the back side (pills generally unscrew out the front end).

Thanks,
Garry

All good, I was just checking mine for any more cardboard or paperclips. ha ha.