My First Real Mods/Builds

It is a good one to mod, the one I have came with the solid screw out pill in it, I have heard they were putting a pill with a hole in the middle of it for awhile.

Got you PM. I m very impressed what these C8’s will do. I am working on a shopping list right now.

Did you dedome the LED yourself ? Thinking I might just get a HI version.

I have dedomed a few LED’s, but I got these from Richard at Mtnelectronics already dedomed on the boards.

Be sure if you do order from him you check the box for it to be dedomed at the bottom of the image if you are in fact wanting a dedomed emitter.

Great mods. The small sun is one of those lights that has all kinds of possibilities.

nice mods, looks great!

Sweetness!!! Can definitely see the difference. The beamshot at 175yrds looks a bit like daylight. Sure you didn’t call on the sun gods to help you in that shot?!??

Nice work. Fun, isn’t it?

It is satisfying to see the results in the end for sure pilot.

Getting there can be a hair pulling experience at times though when you just kind of winging it……lol

The attention to detail shows in the beam shots. I have found that I really like working with the KD C8. If you are looking for a host, they have a complete light for 10 bux with brass pill. They have a good selection of reflectors for XM and XP emitters in smooth and LOP. I actually like to run a de-domed XP-G2 with a LOP reflector so that there is some usable light outside of the pencil beam.

Good focus and good work in general, keep up the good work.

Thanks for the info matt, have plenty of C8’s ATM but I will keep those in mind. Right now I have plans to put a dedomed XP-G2 S2 2B in my XinTD V5 C8 with FET and guppydrv , already got the spring bypass done on the tail end and waiting on parts. I think it will give me a heck of a throw, although I don’t know what kind of spill I will get with it.

A de-domed XP-G2 4C, yes I said 4C. I like warm light, I maybe should have used a 3C since it is a bit yellow.

Warm is ok with some of my lights but in a thrower I prefer to have a neutral if I can end up with that, just my personal preference.

Excellent work on these mods! Small Sun's can be a challenge - the quality and consistency is somewhat lacking, but it's all work-able. I bought a T43 for modding, but ended up a total disaster - not simple modding at all - stripped out the threading, etc.

I use purchased copper discs in various thickness's so try to work out the vertical spacing in advance but it's not always easy. Generally on the bigger lights that use 25 mm stock MCPCB's you are replacing 2.0 mm MCPCB's with 1.6 mm copper MCPCB's so you start out going in the wrong direction from where you want to be. I really like the 26 mm Maxtoch MCPCB's but they are costly, and still too thin.

I'll reflow the copper spacer to the MCPCB so it's one solid chunk of heat sink, which helps.

Thanks Tom. I have a Zy-T43 in there with stripped threads too, hahaha……the threads came out with the head when trying to take it apart so there it sits.

Thanks for the rest of the info also, I will be putting this in my knowledge bank for future reference.

You will have to let me know where to get those copper disk though , that would save about and hour of time trying to make one as I did.

Great work, a couple of nice lights you have there.

I wish I had more open space nearby to let my throwers stretch their legs, all woods and hills around here.

Thanks, we have a lot of woods around but also a lot of cattle/ranches also , so we have a good mix of both open and wooded.

Very nice mods and thanks for showing us.

Thanks MRsDNF and YW

Nice work. Simple, yet effective is my style :slight_smile:

Thanks Lotus_Darkrose yes simple is definitely the eaisiest way to do things usually and my preferred method also.