The head is nice, the switch area is nice with it’s threaded mount….wonder if a plug could be made to cap it off at the switch and wire it in to the 12V car electrical system, mount 2 of the head/switch units on a bull bar for “driving lights” WOW! 
Not sure that is entirely accurate… comfychair modded his S1100, which is essentially the S2200s sister. But I understand the BTU is probably more “modification friendly” in general.
Crappy lights have more room for improvement, and are generally cheaper (at least initially). S1100/2200 needs what, exactly? Already has a very very nice double AR lens. Driver's current sense resistors are easily accessible, emitters are easily swapped. Upgrade the wiring from contact plate to driver and from driver to LED, and what else needs fixin'?
I just pulled 2 of the 3 screws off the driver cover easily. The 3rd was tight and I wasn’t quite willing to go there. But no red locktite on the first 2.
Comfy? Do you think it’d be doable to get that dielectric layer out from under the emitter if the cover plate isn’t done with locktite? I don’t like that. Want it gone.
With the 2 other screws out, gently pry the cover plate in both directions, if that last screw isn't loctited that will loosen it up (it's only located by the screws, there's no counterbore fitment of any of those parts, so it will move around with just one screw in). If you can get the plate to rotate and it doesn't loosen the screw afterwards, it's likely got the loctite curse on it.
You can lift the MCPCB up away from the base (too much heat transfer with it still touching, makes soldering difficult) and unsolder the wires without removing the cover plate.
edit: I don't know what kind of board they use with the MTG2 version, curious to see if it's the same style as the XML.
If I decided to attack this, is there a way to make the driver step up to higher amperage? Would like to see it realizing a little closer to it’s full potential…not looking for 9A but…ok 9A would be fantastic! LOL (Serial #9, order number compressed to 9 according to numerology, so why not 9 amp?)
But seriously 5A would be great. Think that would be something I could do while I was in there? Or is that getting considerably more complicated?
You need one of these...
I don't know if anybody's worked out what does what on the sense resistors yet, but decreasing the total resistance will increase the current. There are 4 resistors all in parallel, R240 & R220. Adding more resistors in parallel decreases the total resistance. There are many web page calculators to figure out what any combo of a given array of resistors will be, but the rule is, resistors in parallel will always be less total resistance than the lowest value resistor...
I don't know what those R220/R240s measure, probably 2.2 & 2.4 ohms. Adding another 2.4 ohms stacked on top of any of the originals is probably where I'd start, assuming that guess at the originals' values are correct (I would remove at least one of each, and measure before picking what value to add).
Comfy,
Do you know the voltage drop across the resistors? Since they appear to be in parallel it would the same across all four (so no need to measure all four other than to confirm their parallel topology). Knowing that voltage drop (current output to the emitter is helpful too) will let us determine what values to add to set emitter current at 5A.
No not ready to dive into that right now, got too many other things in a million pieces already... S)
Anyone that ordered after solarforceflashlight-sales went on hiatus, got a shipping confirmation/tracking number yet?
i ordered last week… and no… im still waiting
Y’all will be pleased after the wait, I’m loving this light! Even use the lo mode regularly, just love the color of the output and it’s very nice all the way around. Well worth waiting for.
I have not received a shipping notification either. A little annoyed to be honest…
I'm going to be downright frustrated if it arrives during my exams.
Blind the professors with your new light and steal the test answers.
From Solarfoceflashlight-sales.com:
Well I’m glad they took an unscheduled 5 extra days of vacation and still havent shipped my light…
Just got my shipping notification and tracking number. Yay!
RB972370495HK
when did you order ramblings? just so we can get an idea of how well they are getting through the back log of orders
I just got notifications for the orders I placed on 5/18/13 (S2200) and 5/20/13 (L2M & SS Pocket Clip)