Jax Z1 XP-G2 S2 dedomed @5A

cool beam shot and great work.

Now listed as Host-only: Jax Z1 Host

and the Lens: Jax Z1 Lens

Wow, love that last pic

Hi, er, when taking the Z1 apart, did you have any trouble getting the pill out?

I’m trying to unscrew the pill, or unscrew the black retaining plate at least, and it gets really stuck after about one turn. I managed to bend my tools trying to get it to turn farther.

At a guess, it looks like the black plate might be glued onto the pill or star, and might perhaps have different threading than the pill. So, they turn in sync. It turns easily at first, but rapidly gets difficult and stuck.

So, I’m looking for advice on getting past that, to get the pill out.

Hy,

i had no problems taking out both parts. There was no connection between pill and black plate. I could unscrew the black plate by pressing it with two fingers. Threads are surely different but as i said there shouldn´t be a connection between pill and plate. Perhaps the centerring ring on the LED is stuck at the plate?

Regards

Kenjii

It’s too bad I ordered this just a few days before the host version was released.

It seems like the pill, star, and black plate are pretty solidly glued together. I’m hoping I can let it sit in the maximum-unscrewed state for a while to stretch the glue, unscrew it a little more, stretch, unscrew a little more, etc… and eventually get the pill out. With any luck, doing this will actually stretch the glue instead of compressing it…

I had heard that the MCPCB was glued on with something pretty strong, but I wasn’t expecting the black plate to be stuck too. Glue is a lot easier to deal with after the pill is out.

Hy,

my Z1 is now running with the LED4Power LD-1 5A Driver and an Efest Purple 26650. Short, strong, good runtime :wink: Measured at 212 KLux@1m/Kcd.

Greetings

Kenjii

Our man in Amsterdam give it to me.

Will try with LD1 and a Photon Collar (Aluminium)

Thanks Kenjii

That looks very neat, Kenjii.

I got an empty host and put it together with a de-domed XP-G2 and BLF22DD driver. However, the optic is slightly deformed (right in the center) so it gets lower throw than it should. With the battery at 4.10V, it clocked in at only 173 kcd. I assume it would be higher with a totally full cell, but it’s still lower than expected, and I can see a weird asymmetric blob to one side of the beam while focusing it.

So, I may see about getting another optic. It’s still pretty good as-is, just not as much as I expected.

Oooh that looks like a very tasty Zoomie/Aspheric thrower. Tempted to pick up the host and do some tinkering, I like the look of the coated lens as well.
Interesting stuff! Thanks for posting.

Great job upgrading this light….looks like you found a good way to improve its lux.

I myself had this light. I took the heatsink with driver and star out and put it inside a 2C Maglite LED. The heatsink fits 99%. You just dremel a hair off inner diameter of Mag or threads off the heatsinks. Not as much throw but great sleeper 2C Mag.

bigC

Hy,

i had that problem with one of the Z1´s I modded, too. This was because the lens went out of center when screwing the bezel. Try to screw the bezel while the light is switched on and hold the lens in position. You can see that ugly blob travel when pressing the lens to the side. Perhaps a little bit of lube on the o-ring can help, too.

Greetings

Kenjii

Thanks! I’ll try that.

I’m doubtful, since I can see the distortion even when the lens isn’t in the light. It’s actually deformed right at the center. I’ll try it anyway though. :slight_smile:

Hello, i tried to remove the brass ring holding down on the driver but it wont turn. I twist it in anti clockwise direction and end up bent the tip of the sharp tweezer, is it correct turn direction? I took out the black ring fine. And how do you all remove the heavily potted star?

Anti clockwise should be correct, maybe it’s glued? You can try to heat it up first and see if it helps.
I bought the bare host so everything was nice and loose on mine.

Twisting it in anti clockwise direction is correct. I unscrew the tight retaining ring in this way: Asking someone to hold the pill for me and I inserted a pair of tweezers into one of the holes, then used a hammer to knock onto the tweezers. This way the retaining ring came off very easily.

As for the epoxied star, hammer and chisel (or flat head screwdriver) is the way to go.

Mind you that it is a PITA to clean the leftover epoxy on the pill after you have your MCPCB removed and I really wonder what kind of thermal epoxy like that they used. I used a flat head slotted screwdriver to keep scratching on the pill surface like hell until the epoxy were fully removed, then only I polished the surface with sandpapers.

Thanks for the help, really appreciate it. I tried to hammer it but end up bending the tweezer. Probably my tweezer is too flimsy after too much bent from turning all the flashlight rings. I end up taking the smallest drill bit that i have and expanded the 2 hole. And now my needle nose plier can fit to the hole and it turn easily =,= looks like i should buy another plier and grind the tip small so it can fit all future hole. Real good quality with silicone wire. It looks like it have the leda qx9920 ic pdf in chinese. 18禁肉动漫无修在线播放应用_性色Va一区二区三区_超大爆乳老师免费观看_亚洲精品人成网线在线vA A pic ic pulse the ic and the ic drive the fet. Anyone can identify the 2 other smaller sot ic part number?? I’m guessing the nearest to the pic is a linear 5v reg. Not sure about the last sot function, reverse polarity protection?

As for the star i take a butane torch and heat it up till it start to smoke and then put a flat head screwdriver and pry it from one side of the star and the whole thing came off together with the glue sticking on the star leaving only alittle glue on the pill. Guess i’m lucky

Sharpened pliers are very good.

Can you post pictures of the driver?

AH! yes pics i totally forgot about it.
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