That looked so nice, then boom, non anodized tailcap threads.
Comfychair has a post showing how to make an adapter ring to fit smaller optics into bigger heads. It should be doable with a drill press. I have a milling bit in the mail, so I'll be giving that a try soon.
On the UF-T50 & 'PH-08' clones, the bezel thread ID is 26.3mm, bezel front opening is 23mm.
Roche F6 uses a 24mm lens. The bezel opening is small (~20mm) though that can be enlarged. Great quality on those as a host. Not much space in the driver compartment, it would have to use the stock driver or a dedicated redesign of the BLF-20DD.
I’m losing my mind, Wight! Thanks, Comfychair, I am subscribed to that one you posted as well. They say the mind is the second thing to go. Now if I could just remember what was first to go…
That was indeed what I was hinting at :-) . The optic that fits that board is the Ledil Cute optic, which is 35mm diameter. It could be shaved to 32mm of course, but you will loose some beam quality and a bit of output.
sinner has a thread about a new host that he’s making and might offer, and I’ve posted over there about possibility of using his host with the quad setup:
Anything with an attiny13 MCU can be flashed with momentary firmware. The BLF-17/20/22s will do 8.5-9A from a single 20R/25R/VTC5 into 3 parallel XPG2s, with 4 LEDs I'd guess that would go up to 10-11A.