Well, you already saw the photos from the tear down thread, but here's a few to tie in here and a link to that thread.
The original light.
The original driver, which we have determined to not use and go with a DrJones Master 8x7135 driver and two KD 8x7135 slave drivers instead. I will be adding chips to them. I am not sure how many because I don't know how many I have left.
The original led star on the original led shelf.
Where it screws into the light.
There are three evenly spaced holes in the original aluminum shelf and when I add copper, I will make use of those holes, to fasten the top and bottom copper discs together.
The modified shelf.
The bottom side.
In order to get the two plates soldered together, I used some 1/8" copper tube and cut short pieces that fit into the three holes in the original plate. Then I drilled the top and bottom copper discs and aligned it all. I used several pair of vise grips to hold everything together, while I heated it all and ran solder in and around the three holes, so that the discs and tube pieces were all soldered together and the pressure of the vise grips kept it all tight to the original aluminum shelf. It's not a lot more heat dissipation, but it will help and the copper stars that are coming will be soldered to the top copper disc. It's a no AA mod...
There were only two screws in the bottom contact plate, so I drilled and tapped the other two for some screws I had. Hey, it will work and that's all that counts.
A little bit of cosmetics to be done.
More, once I get stars and drivers. Sometime late next week or the first of the week after, since it's the holiday season.
I managed to get the leds on stars and the stars on the led shelf, but I had to drop the top copper disc, due to clearance problems. Probably not that big a deal as they are only Nichias anyhow.
The plastic spacers are just washers that have beend sanded down.
Now I have to clean the reflector. We know how that will work, don't we.
Now I wait for the drivers to get here.
I went ahead and did the resistor change for this light and for the other SRK clone. This light now has the driver from the other light and it has a resistor change.
Now it has one R025 resistor per channel and the 3rd channel with the long run has a wire added, to help cut resistance.
The driver now shows a little over 5 amps, so that's about right for three Nichias.
I bought some Glow paint. Looke pretty good.
Beam shots tonight, then it goes up for sale.