Nothing better to do on a gloomy Sunday… Old Coast G10 with Nichia now…
The G10 AAA light that Coast used to give away was one of my first flashlights, but once I found BLF, the G10 seemed underpowered.
I’ve kept it around because I really like the light. It is solid, and has a forward clicky tailcap switch, which is pretty cool for a AAA light, but I never could figure out how to disassemble it, or even figure out if it COULD be disassembled, until I found a thread last week (this one, I think, Simple Mod for a Coast G20) that showed the head removed.
Anyway, I got my son to get the head off (arthritis for me, so I have to recruit muscle nowadays). It was glued on there bad, but he got it off, and then I sat around trying to figure out how to get the driver out.
I eventually just took a pair of needlenose and ripped that out, since I knew I was going to put another driver in, to get modes.
The driver I wanted to use is the “AK-007” driver from DX.com/dxsoul.com (MEGAJUDI303 : Slot88 Slot Online Gacor Maxwin Pulsa Tanpa Potongan).
I soldered that driver to the original cheapo emitter but when I tried it with a 10440, I think it killed the emitter. I didn’t have any 10mm emitter boards, so that sat around for awhile… somehow I had a hard time ordering ONE 10mm star for $2+ and paying $2+ more for shipping…
Finally, I got this idea…
I still have a bunch of Nichia 119s that I bought from texaspro awhile ago (Nichia 119's for cheap (also Cree XLAMP-7090's)), and although I really like the tint, there’s only a few places that I’ve been able to use them, but I figured that maybe I could cut off the tophat emitter, run a wire through each of the holes in the original emitter PCB, bend the wires over, and solder one of the 119s to the wires, i.e., make a kind of homebrew star for the 119.
I just got that done, and amazingly it worked. The emitter is really badly off-center but this light/reflector seems to be pretty forgiving of that, and I now have a 10440-powered light with a forward clicky and Nichia 119 with nice tint.
I don’t dare take the light apart, but I got some external pics for you all:
Off-center emitter:
and white wall:
Hopefully the pics will show up - I’ve had problems hosting on onedrive before!