US GB, LD-2 driver by led4power. One member hasn't received theirs yet, anyone else? Please chime in.

Got mine today, thanks.

Going to be fun trying to solder wires to the ntc. My guess is that soldering the wires should come before gluing it in place if access is tight.

Updated the op to indicate who has RCD their sets.

Package arrived yesterday. Can’t wait to try them out, although I’m not looking forward to those microscopic resistors! Thanks again for all the work that went into this for us!

Received.

Thanks!

…………does not apply to the USPS. Only one state over……but not yet.

Afaict there’s no rhyme or reason to usps shipping times. Thanks for letting me know when they arrive, I’m just as anxious as all of you.

Got my package, haven’t yet opened to check out the goods. Trying to hold off playing with the new toys till I finish a couple of builds.

I felt inspired to use my first LD-2 in a build, so I rebuilt a new Sunwayman T40CS. Putting the moon components on wasn’t horrible, used my standard 2.5mm wedge tip and did it by eye. But then getting the NTS resistor and the fine wires for it and the e-switch and getting all that together was sort of a challenge.

Initially, I saw low lumens output. Realized a few things simultaneously… my HE-4 was down to 3.93V and I didn’t put spring bypasses on the stock springs. So, once I got all that taken care of this baby SHINES! (I should disclose that I ground off the top edges of the pill area and put a 32mm Noctigon on the now flat surface.) With an XP-L V5 1A in place this baby does…

03.86 lumens in moon
61.55 in low
523.37 in Med
1752.6 in High or Turbo

I got 5.86A at the tail once I got a decent dummy cell made for single cell operation in this twin tube light. (I cut a 3/4” thick G10 square, 65mm long, bored it out with a 3/16” bit and hammered a 3/16” brass rod into the middle for the dummy cell. Had to grind off the corners of the 3/4 x 3/4” square piece so now it works beautifully!)

I like having a cut off tail switch that totally kills power AND an e-switch on the side for modes. I got this $120 Sunwayman on sale through touch of modern for $53, now it’s a very nice light that makes loads of output and is very efficient at the same time. :slight_smile:

One down, 9 to go…

They arrived. Thanks for the careful and well-thought-out packaging.

Fun and games tonight….The soldering iron is already heating up.

Hope everybody else got theirs.

A Toast to you Rufus B!

I got mine too. Thanks. Now I just need something to build with them…

Still have several in limbo.

Fwiw the mailing cost broke down this way. A photo mailer is normally just first class postage or in this case .49 but because of the non bendable nature of the wafers an extra .22 is added for “non-machinable”. Orders of 10 boards or lots of extra wire were over 1oz so some had an extra oz stamp of .22 in addition. Outside the US (Canada, etc.) has a base of $1.20 to which non-machineable and extra oz postage may be added. Only the large combined order of DB custom and jubeldum was more than 2oz so the mailers are by far the least expensive way to go with items that can be packaged 1/4” thick or less. Springs and led wires would necessitate different packaging and postage.

Sorry, little late on this.

I got mine in the mail a while back.

It probably works fine, but I think my LED setup needs some work because there’s flickering. Pretty sure it’s not the driver, but I will have to revisit my build in a little while. Thanks for the opportunity to get one of these :slight_smile:

And if you were to jump in the car and run something to a friend across town, what would that cost in gas, time and wear and tear to the vehicle (barring an accident or ticket of course?)

Pretty dang cheap to stick even a single driver in a flat rate box and have it go across the country, insured, for $5.25 in 2 days.

Just a reminder to post when you get them, please.

Why did I only get two of these?

They are really working out well.

Should have taken a clue from DB….

It was definitely my LED setup. I had the 3 XP-Ls on separate stars when I was having flickering issues.

I scrapped that idea, and just reflowed them onto a 32mm Noctigon triple star. No more flicking.

Driver works perfectly. However, now I have to wait for my even smaller reflectors to come in the mail before I can finally finish this thing lol.

Thank you Rufus! I got my drivers earlier today! Already stuck the 6A version in a BLF X6 :slight_smile:

How did it turn out?