My wife knows I spent $10 on the host… and that’s all she knows.
But to partially answer you and muto, I would never make these to sell. Even starting with a pre-made host this was far too much work to willingly go through multiple times. Plus, once there is more than 1, it’s much less cool.
” Hello, Mrs. PilotDog? Yes, I’m calling about a light your husband recently purchased. It seems that there’s a factory defect that causes the anodization to fall off, and the rear switch appears faulty.
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Yes, we’re very worried this made it through quality control. If you don’t mind, I’m emailing you a fedex label now to our local collection agent, and am authorized to paypal you no less than TWICE the original sale price.
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You have a very good day too, ma’am ”
Sorry I missed your post, I was working on this light again and just noticed it. If you still want the code, here is the latest iteration.
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I was just coming back to say that I swapped out the driver in favor of a FET+1. I managed to stack an extra 7135 then solder them to the pcb with a piece of electrical tape under the output pin to isolate it, then solder some 24awg wire directly to the pins for the red output. Works great. My main motivation was to get the clean look of a single-sided board, but the extra lumens are a nice bonus :bigsmile: It now draws 6.2amps, good for about 2400 lumens.
Wow! Sounds like a very neat light to me. I have to learn how to flash these drivers NOW. No clue about coding at all, but with all those codes readily available, I couldn’t think of anything that I’d want that hasn’t been done…
So you get 6.2amps to the 2 XP-L and about 0,7amps to the red XP-E in each of the two max modes? That is brilliant, especially that added 7135 for more red light ouput. That illuminated tailcap is also very nice, have to give that a try someday.
The firmware is very similar to what I’m using I’m still tweaking bits of mine to give me my perfect modes.
Haha. My white + red light also uses FET + 1 driver with extra 7135 stacked. Funny how similar yet different they’ve turned out. Think I’m going to build one like yours but with 219’s instead of XP-L as a gift for my brothers birthday.
Totally missed this one, excellent job on this!! I've been thinking of the same thing, didn't know it was already done. Like the FET+1 mod. I'm hoping to do it with a ATTiny85 though so I can add some tricks with advanced modes.
This light is still the one I grab when i want to show off a light to muggles, but there were a few little things that were keeping me from grabbing it when I actually needed a flashlight. So tonight, I did a total rebuild.
Swapped out the optic from a narrow spot clear to a narrow spot frosted to smooth out the square projection of the dies.
Swapped one of the XP-L’s for a new one that has a bit better tint, and I swapped the other XP-L for a dedomed XP-G2 to get back the throw I lost with the frosted optic.
Got rid of the FET+1 driver, and put in the first of my TripleDown drivers. It has 2*7135 controlling the Red XP-E, 3*7135 for low and a non-PWM medium mode, and FET turbo.
In the tail I kept the blue led’s, but they are on the new Rev4 lighted tailcap PCB. I have two brightness settings now, one that is a little brighter than before that I can use when i’m showing off in the daylight, and a lower setting that is more practical in real use.
I kept the tail magnet, but sunk the switch boot down further so that the magnet makes better contact and sticks much stronger than it did before.
Finished it off by giving it a brighter polish than it had originally.
I’m still tweaking bits of mine to give me my perfect modes.