What did you mod today?

looks like you built a campfire under the tail, nice!

Now if TK could get those to flicker….

That’s some unique looking C8 you’ve made there :laughing:

Just for laughter i did tested this “baking” treatment on a blue convoy s2+ middle piece that i had left from a 18350 conversion

It started from a blue to a weird color that… it had just a little blue but mostly gray

Then few minutes later it started to shift colours again, this time towards golden tint, and for some reason i like it

And some before/after

I might do this to the rest of the flashlight, just to make it a bit different, because why not :slight_smile:

Nice mod Jos!

Bobbymk, that is the best color, we should have kept the C8 on the flames a little longer.

You know this YouTube channel Simple cooking?
He uses a song, simple cooking as lyrics, my son and me are running around singing “flashlight cooking” :smiley:

My wife asked to do hers as well.

And an yellow golden tube we just left on to see where it would stop, a shiny grey.

Next up a SRK :slight_smile:

Baking ano goes back a bit here:

With the “Orange Dry” thread here:

…and promptly followed up by the “Dry Orange” thread here:

I’ve baked a couple of my lights but don’t really prefer the change. I have used it to separate lights when I have more than one host of the same style, and selectively bake a bezel to make one stand out from the other.

Well I like it, lots of fun.
On the gasflames it is really fast as well

The SRK turned out shiny silver with an extremely light golden tint in the head, very beautifull but very hard to make a pic from.

We have tow mere identical zoomies, 1 is my wifes EDC, she loves it and will not part with it, even though it is not a high quality.
So we baked the second one, t turned out very bright light color, like platinum.

And in the process of doing all the rest my wife liked the new olors and asked us to do hers as well.
We cut off the heat a little sooner to keep it a tad goldenly like.

Here ou go
left the original looks.
middle the first one changed
right the EDC of my wife, she is very content with it.

The images are still not working for me. I tried Chrome and IE.

Great mod djozz. I don’t know why you were worried about getting a weird beam from the Carlco optic. 96 CRI with negligible yellow or rosy tint is getting closer to real sunlight all the time.
The illuminated tail cap modding is still over my head. I need a dedicated “how to” instruction thread with with clear detailed pictures.

Have you read the tailcap thread OP in the month or two? I tried to consolidate most of the basic knowledge there. If you would like some more info added, I can take more pictures or something, just let me know. I just don’t want the OP to get too cluttered. There are a million different options now, and sometimes it works best if you post what light you want to put it in and people can chime in with tips/suggestions

I started reading the thread, but the pictures were blurry and I wasn’t sure what I was looking at. Then the discussion favours electronically minded people who already understand what going on. I’m a “see spot run” guy when it comes to the technical parts. I need simple instructions with clear easy to follow pictures. I catch on fast, but a concise uncluttered primer deploying the KISS methodology is needed for my aging brain to understand.

Ouchyfoot, I have been thinking about doing a build thread on the dumb tailcap boards, with pics or videos. Still waiting on parts… May give it a go soon.

I’ll be watching for it. Thanks from me and others.

Built up a C8 XP-G2. Baked a M2

This has by far been the most involved mod I’ve ever done. I spent 5 or 6 hours last night tweaking, test fitting, tweaking, test fitting, filing, and more test fitting but I think I am finally done with the bulk of the tough stuff. I got the driver all set up and potted (after quadruple checking everything was working). Switch is set in place and the leads are ready to be attached to that beautiful MTG2 board. I’m just waiting for the thermal glue to thoroughly set up before making the (hopefully) final 2 solder joints.

Nice. I’ve never even attempted a mag build because it just seemed like so much work! So kudos.

I spent part of my evening in Eagle designing 14mm single-sided FET+1 board, before I realized wight had already done basically the same thing. Doh! I will say I like mine better though haha

A short mod, but one that I wanted to do for a long time already: replacing the led of a AAA cheapy (brand-less, from Fasttech, but it is exactly the same build as the Singfire/BLF 348) with a ‘led4power’ 365nm led and replace the lens with a 10mm ZWB2 UV-pass filter. I thought it would be great for banknotes, but it is actually too bright for that without protecting glasses, unless it is for checking for a brief moment. It is not as innocent as it looks…

Nice.

That’s why i used the Thrunite Ti, it’s good to have a lower mode. The high mode on mine is quite powerful too.

You’ve got me thinking about modding my BLF CQG S1 now. :wink:

:slight_smile:

Well, I’m thinking about gutting my Tom E. BTU Shocker. By todays standards it is a little long in the tooth if you will. So, I’m thinking maybe some XP-L HI’s? Then what would I drive them with? All three parallel to a 17DD +1? Or maybe, One driver per led? What would you do with it if you wanted to change it up to something a little newer. Right now it has some dedomed XM-L2 God knows what. I’m afraid to look at the existing driver which I have not done yet.

Sweet! It turned out nicely. You could change out the sense resistor on that flashlight to reduce output. Based on these pictures I’d say it should be the one marked R50.

I don’t think you’ll see any improvement switching to XPL Hi except maybe tint improvement. Maybe a driver upgrade might see a marginal increase.

I recently upgraded my stock dd xml btu shocker to a 3S FET, Xpl-hi. Based on my calculations at 6amps should see around 400kcd. I am unfortunately only seeing 4.8A and 257kcd with 30Q’s. My 20awg lead run from driver to mcpcb may be a tad long for 20awg. Not much else I could improve.