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……
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.
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.
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).