Olight Factory Dedomed Light?

Heheheh…that’s funny because you are absolutely correct. The bond wire in their photo is broken. Here is a pic of one that isn’t. There is an obvious difference between the two.

Also looks like the ESD protection diode wire is broken (not that that matters).

610Kcd ……Hero Light…. Dang!!!
Need to put that SR90 reflector with lens I bought a couple of years ago to work!

I need to take a better look at the spec’s on it, wonder if there’s an UCLp lens that fits it?

Can’t wait to see how it proves out…

I highly doubt the dedome was done by Olight, with each dedome there is a different outcome and greatly altering the product’s consistency. more likely it came domeless from the factory.

What would be the MOQ (minimum order quantity) for cree to manufacture a domeless led? I think we should find out…

I agree.

Even better would be to organise it through a vendor like IOS so we can buy the factory de-domed emitters on Noctigons etc.

Thrunite took the risk to overdrive the LED, and now Olight take the risk to dedome them. :beer: I hope to see more and more manufacturers to take this approach. How about Maxtoch? :smiley:

I believe Olight did use LED Seal or similar thing on the die surface, as we know these manufacturers are careful with their products and don’t want the customers to keep returning the flashlights back to them. And man, that dedomed is really clean. I always use gasoline method and only got the result very clean once or twice. Heat-dedome method might come cleaner but that requires some skills - How many emitters do they need to sacrifice in order to make their workers expert in it? :stuck_out_tongue:

With the right set-up, I can see them dunking 1000 emitters in gasoline overnight, upside down, and returning in the morning to find 1000 domes on the bottom of the tank. :wink: No skills required.

Gas method works very well, but you can’t always get that clean and perfect dedome result as shown in their picture. Unless they have modified their gasoline formula to specifically fit for LED dedome. :smiley:

They may be cutting the dome close to the die and not completely dedoming the led

Then we will see some leftover dome material around the die but from the picture I can’t see any. Anyway I’ve never see the real thing so I can’t say for sure. :slight_smile:

Ultrasonics + specialized solvent maybe?

I have found that if the gasoline and ambient temperature are in the 90 degree range (F), the dome falls off clean, especially if soaked over 4 hours (typically falls off around 2 hours). Also the gas needs to be fresh. It takes so little gasoline to accomplish it, I’m sure they’ve built a tank and do many emitters at a time. Then a rinse tank to soak and clean off the gas and they’re up and running.

The few lights I’ve done for friends I’ve had the de-domes come out beautifully clean, while I tent to rush my own and they aren’t quite as nice. But now I mostly use the heat method, in the light using the heat of the die itself while on Turbo mode. This takes so little time and works so nicely that it’s about the only way I do the de-dome’s anymore.

The hot de-dome usually leaves some of the dome material around the bond wires and I leave it there to help support em, and so as not to break them in trying to be too picky. :wink:

I totally destroyed the stock XM-L2 in my Courui D01 I bought from Gearbest recently. I was trying to squeeze the dome off. No heat, no gasoline. I thought I’d be cool and just rip it off the top. Obviously, that didn’t work, but it was fun trying! Large chunks of the phosphor coating stuck to the dome. I never did find the bond wires. I couldn’t see them on the die, nor on the bottom of the dome. I never thought silicone could stick so well to anything! Well, it was stuck good to that XM-L2 die! Maybe next time, I’ll try gasoline.

Trial by Fire? :slight_smile:

I killed about 8 of the little buggers trying to hot rod my TK61… fried crispy critturs.

10 to 1, they are buying the leds from Cree with no dome. After all, for Cree, it would be cheaper. They wouldn't have to put the domes on, so it would save them money and the would probably charge an extra fee for not putting them on. I think you have to at least buy a full reel, to get Cree to even answer you. Probably more than a full reel, so Olight will probably have de-domed leds for the next ten years or so.

Personally, I could care less. Never been interested in a small spot of light that reaches out way farther than my old decrepit eyes can see. More than about 50 yards and I can't see anything anyhow.

I agree. Makes me want a de-domed light now, especially when they can be sold in a light with warranty intact.

I’m interested did they adjust the reflector for dedomed LED. I’ve tried almost everything with Jacob A60 reflector and dedomed xm-l2, but didn’t manage to avoid bright ring around hotspot. I realy love compact A60, and it’s ability to throw far, great for hunting.

This light shows to be available at Banggood for $119 as of now.

http://www.banggood.com/Olight-M2X-UT-Javelot-CREE-XM-L2-810M-Tactical-LED-Flashlight-p-954561.html

Not really:“Expected restock on 17th November 2014”