Have to go down today and pick up some chipquick. Well that’s the thing, I only bridged one of them, so if that’s the reason it didn’t go poof, I’m happy with that. But reading the amperage going through the tail, was still under an amp with 3 cells? It barely moved after the bridge. I’ll let you know how it goes when I pull those 2 out and have the new resistors in. It’s actually been awhile since I did this kind of work I have land and farm nowdays. The drought in the valley is causing all kinds of havoc right now, we lost all ground table water and our well isn’t deep enough, so I have had some time on my hands lately. You can’t water if there’s no water. They won’t open the delta up to help us because environmentalists say there’s a rare smelt that is endangered. That’s the emergency system for these matters, all infrastructure is there, just needs to press a button to help us. Instead all the water is going out to the ocean. Sometimes I think eggheads should stick to what they know and stay out of politics. I mean smelt are everywhere, they forget where their food comes from I guess. A lot of the perennials are lost here in the valley, they take years to grow back. The guys who saw this coming drilled deep wells years ago, they are laughing at us all!
I couldn’t even find my solder, have to pick up some SM60 today too.
Actually that makes sense now. Thanks… If I can get this light useable to where high is decent, can use it out there nights. It’s not going to sit on a shelf. I’ll send one to my brother in law too, see how it compares. The supernight I just colored in one resistor until I had it at 4 amps through the tail. That seems to be the perfect balance with heat. This light I figured (well don’t know what I was thinking lol) I bridged and see where it ended up at. Maybe I should stick to pencil or soldering in resistors the right way instead of being crazy
Should add I’m using protected 5200mah cells. Just took off the wrapper and removed the button top on the + end so they fit.