The "N" Rook Mod

Very nice, big old hot spot. I did just the opposite with mine. I de-domed an L2 now it’s warmer and throws.

very nice. i always did like this rook. so did it give it more overall lumens…any brighter than stock form?
how many lumens would you say this is now?

It never ceases to amaze me just what you can do with a good dose of ingenuity and creativity :open_mouth:
How I wish I had half your smarts OL, (I’m not technically inclined) and could do these sort of things.
Another winner, OL. Congrats :smiley:

I don’t know how bright the stock rook is with 14500 batteries in it, but with NiMHs it was just plain weak. More of a joke than anything else. Now it’s very bright. About the brightest 3AA light I have made. It would rival any single neutral/warm white XM-L T6 at 3 amps.

Lumens? No clue.

Very nice, I’ve always liked lights that ran on typical AAs/nimh. Can the AAs handle the amp draw fine?

Eneloops do good with it. I don’t know about other brands. Alkalines would die fast.

You're gettin' purty good at this stuff .

Justin, you’re king of the AA mods!

Great mod!
Old-Lumens, some of your threads does not get the amount of attention they deserves, but they are all highly appreciated! :slight_smile:
Maybe more people will mod Rooks in the future, considering the 20$ price from WB.

Old-Lumens should make a thread linking to all his builds. Sometimes I see old builds I never even knew existed.

+1
Im sure I have missed lots of stuff in the past.
Links to all Old-Lumens builds should be a sticky! :slight_smile:

I have thought about making one thread with links to all of them and links to several other modders like Match. I think they should all be in one sticky thread, so anyone looking for a mod, can see if it's done already, without searching and finding nothing. I just hate searching on any of these forums. I never find the pertinent stuff I want. but tons of stuff I don't want. If I said that about searching on CPF, I would be banned or called a lazy sot.

Great work as usual, Justin! I really like it. I just ordered a Rook for myself this morning for $20 shipped from Wallbuys and am looking forward to it now that I see what you've done, in particular the tailcap lockout mod. Do you have a thread about just this? If not, can you elaborate on the tailcap mod you did as far as lockout goes on this?

I think the video is broken as the people just stand there and look at you without moving. They scare me.

I don't have a thread about it. I have done it a couple times for thr Rooks, but only when I am switching to series.

Basically, I mod the contact plate first, to make it series. I think the photos show that, but I will try to describe it.

I take the original parallel contact plate and cut thru the back side contact strips, so that each of the three contact springs are now isolated from each other and from the original ground screws. Then I solder on a jumper wire to two of the contact springs, so they will form part of the series path. The third spring is the negative that will go to the tail cap and I solder on a copper contact and spring, so that the negative is in the center of the plate. That touches against the inside of the tail cap and I clean off the ano right there, so the contact is made. I also clean off the ano on the tail cap and on the body, where the two touch when the tail cap is screwed on. That makes the negative path complete and when the tail cap is unscrewed a 1/2 turn, the contact is broken, so the light does not turn on and parasitic drain cannot happen.

Of course, the rest of the series circuit lies in the upper contact plate I made and should be shown in the photos, (in this or one of the other Rook mods I have threads for here). Really, just think of the two contact plates as the top and bottom of a series battery holder and it should come to light (pun intended).

Not any more than you scare me.Tongue Out

1)it feels right to see you going back to the Nichia's .

2)this is to me the most desirable light you have made to date, I love the mod!

3)very relaxing to see the mod in one go for a change, with Kansas in the background, I finished reading exactly when they finished singing

Thanks, Justin. Between that and the pics I should be able to make sense of it. :wink:

I love reading these builds of yours. I learn alot and get some good ideas for my own builds. :slight_smile:

It makes me happy to read the above. I love his builds also but more often than not I usually get all dizzy trying to understand just a little off whats going on.