TexasPyro, you should sell the lights with driver installed as a unit too: I know a few who would buy already.
I’d be all over that like a hobo on a ham sammich!
-Jamie M.
me too
Great job on the driver, count me in for 2 please. I joined particularly because of this thread, I’ve been buying lights for a couple months now and always come to BLF for reviews and recommendations. Once I saw this thread last week I had to get myself an SRK, actually I got a FandyFire UV-S5 from FT. I couldn’t be happier with the quality, the anodizing was perfect LED’s are centered, even has the 3 toroid driver, no PWM noise on low. I’m going to buy another when you make these available so I can mod both and have some back up drivers, you know, for the zombie apocalypse.
tp, do you think there would be any issues with tying all 3 channels together to run a single parallel array?
For the few that don't mind adding their own components, are you selling the bare circuit board yet?
Should work fine…
Im curious about this too.
I’ve been looking for a driver board for my skyray king that came from china D.o.a
Dead on arrival searching for the last two days for driver and came across this website awesome
I don’t know a lot about Cree torchs but from reading the comments i will take 2 completed boards
guys could someone pm me where I can get a driver board that fits the sky ray king
Until these boards come available
Welcome to the forum F137.
Maybe someone here will have one and contact you. In the mean time, you could email some of the big discount vendors such as Walbuys, Fasttech, etc. I'm sure they can get you one. Hopefully, at a low price.
If you're handy, you could fabricate a battery board out of that through-hole type of hobby board. Use copper tape or solder copper sheet where the battery and body make contact with it. On the other side, hook up a driver or drivers that use an electronic switch.
EDIT: Or if you know how to wire 7135's directly, you could replace the momentary switch with an on-off type switch. Then wire the right prong of the 7135's to the switch and the switch to positive on the batter board. The back tabs of the 7135's could be soldered around the paremiter of the battery board for negative. The left prong of the 7135's would feed the negative of the LED's. The positive of the LED's wired directly to the positive of the battery board. You will only have one level of brightness, but at least your light would be working.
Maybe he could open a new thread to get hints to repair his stock driver…
I guess if its DOA it’s just a connection problem somewhere…
Thanks for the hints and tips I’m a complete noob at the moment i think it’s best if I purchase a board and do some more reading on this forum
I’m waiting for a reply from the websites in your post And Dx /banggood
I’ve had no luck with contacting the seller in china for a new Circuit driver
Sorry guys didn’t mean to nor did I intend to hijack the the thread.
Thanks
Sounds good F137. Don't be shy about starting a thread to fix your light. There may be folks here that have had the same exact problem that might be able to help you out.
In case you don't know, the driver is kind of hard to get out of most SRK's. Most folks have to heat up the head bit and even then it can be hard to press out. I take it you know how to solder. Anyway, if you have questions, start a separate thread like Werner suggested. Or find a thread with a lot of that type of discussion in it. Best of luck.
Hows it going with this driver texaspyro?
TP, any updates?
Heck I’ll buy one just to show support for the open source firmware plans!
I’ve been tied up on some projects that pay real money… hope to get back on this next week. I have been doing some long term testing on the drivers in some lights. Looking good so far.
I’ve had some problems finding a cheap PCB maker that can panalize round boards. Most want to cut out the individual boards… not good for having the boards built professionally. I have got my own reflow oven up and running (DIY Reflow Oven) and a friend of mine is building a pick-and-place machine. May wind up building them myself.
I realize that a project like this must be a rather complicated and time consuming affair. The reflow oven looks great and your creativity never ceases to amaze me. Puh-lease dont give up on this one. Many SRK’s will thank you! Good luck and thanks for getting back to us with an update.
Hey pyro, lets get this party started. For every person that says they are in for one, you have about 20 ghosters that just read the forums and have never registered!
So if you get this off the ground, and charge $20-$25 per driver, you have make alot of $$$$.
And lastly, count me in for 2, and I don’t even own a Skyray King, but will if you make this driver available!
I was disappointed in my King and have held off on selling/trading it because of this driver. I am in for 1 most definitely.