An Unorthodox Way to Solder a wire to an MCPCB ~ ~ Low Profile Attachment (HD2010)

This is brilliant! Thank you Ouchyfoot. :beer:

I had this light out last night, and I’m loving it. The beam is perfect and throws true, a tube of light.

I bought three of these a while ago and played around at modding one of them. I was never really that impressed with any of the beam profiles it produced. They’ve been sitting in a box …ignored. I even had copper pills for all of them, but
never really got into the HD2010. Something just bugged me about it.

If you don’t get the reflector perfectly focused, it’s a so-so light. But now that I’ve got it right, I can’t believe I’ve been ignoring them for so long. There’s only one way…that reflector needs to sit as low as possible. It needs to do the reflector limbo.

Maybe on my next one, I’ll open up the reflector so the MCPCB is entirely inside the reflector. I’m sure it’s been done already…anyone got a link?

I think your missing out on something. White wall beam pattern has never been all that good, but in practical use, the HD2010 is a great light. I've gifted and modded a few, and everyone seems to love the things. I prefer the Y3 now for the $$$, but still...

I like it now! It’s great. I only worked on one other and it never attained a beam pattern that was truly focused. Now I know what it needs. I’ll rebuild my first one and work on the third.


wow, just wow

holy moly that is a great idea. How to you make sure the LED is centered? With my luck, I’d drill the holes barely in the wrong spot and the LED would be off center.

I used a small file to flatten out the solder and wire… Was thinking the same thing grant :slight_smile:

In this case, there was no centering to be done. The pill was exactly the size of a 20mm MCPCB. If this isn’t the case, you just put themal adhesive on the star, screw down the reflector until it’s centered and wait for it to dry. Then remove the reflector, and drill your holes.

brilliant idea. Now if I can just remember it next time I need it.

sweet. that’s sorta what I figured. I’m way too impatient when modding…. letting the adhesive dry before coming back to a project is hard. especially after already waiting for LEDs to dedome in gas.

That’s why I soldered the Noctigon to the pill. This project was an experiment that I decided to do one morning and wouldn’t have anymore time for another week.

I've been preaching to everyone that micro shears are the best bang for your buck/ must-have tool of the century .This is exactly where I use them .. after soldering I just take a nice smooth bite out of the solder blob to make a nice flat landing pad for the reflector to sit down on. Using a file just seems like another way to accidently slip and take out the emitter.

Wait - what are micro shears? Got a link? Smile This sounds useful. I got a couple pairs of small cutters, not sure if it's the same thing?

Yeah probably the same thing ..

Xcelite 170D

http://www.amazon.com/Xcelite-170M-General-Shearcutter-Diagonal/dp/B0002BBZIS

Micro shears - side cutters - flush cutters.
You’ll find them under all those names. The ones at FastTech are pretty good. Relic praised them, so I got a pair. He said he used them for everything, even cutting sinkpads…I tried…don’t do that.

Ahhh - ok, Yes I got a couple always handy - wire cutters and then some... Think I got the FT ones, and one other good pair.

While we were talking about this, I took a close inspection of my cutter and ordered a new one.

Yeah I make sure I don’t slip… Even with the beer :slight_smile:

Indeed! Worth bumping this ancient thread.

(see OP)

necro

in my eyes without a good solution to avoid shorts not an good idea