What did you mod today?

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.

Dedomed XP-G2 2b LOVING the tint. Having issues with the driver.

Is your battery carrier holding you back?

It shouldn’t be. I bypassed all springs with high quality braid or 22awg wire and beefed up all traces with 30ga copper sheet.

Here’s the data measured at different stages:
Stock BTU Shocker (XML alu mcpcb & DRY Driver):
108kcd @ 7ft
405lux Ceiling Bounce

FET & 3x XPL HI on noctigon
Installed
4.3A tailcap
197kcd
464lux

Spring Bypass, traces beefed
4.8A
247kcd
515lux

257kcd @ 35ft converted back to 1m.

I got the parts together for my second RoMiSen RC-A8 mod., boost driver and Nichia 219C for CR123A. Next is to take it apart and shorten the pill.

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Fought my fet+1 most of the day. Took a break to bake some Convoys

Overhauled one of my first 3up X6’s and played around with GITD stuff applied to some optics,

This X6 had a glued Al-Heatsink, 3 badly dedomed 219B on a FET driver and additinal glass lens. Board was also glued down. I managed to force the board out. Heatsink was left in place but I drilled and tapped two holes into it to secure the board. Sanded down the 32mm board and soldered it under the new one. LEDs are 219B-V1 R9050 sw57, by the way. Sanded down the bezel a bit and now it’s a perfect fit without additional glass lens. While the optics are curing, I prepared a 105C based driver. It’s a dual channel 11+2 AMC7135 driver now, 4.67 A max, running BLF-A6 firmware with BATTCHECK_VpT (EDIT: doesn’t work), 6- and 4-mode-groups, where in the 6-mode-group, 4 modes are running solely on the 2nd 2x7135-channel, in the 4-mode-group, 2 modes are 2nd channel only. Didn’t dare to touch the optics yet, hope they’ll turn out nice.

PICS!!!

I too would like to see more pics of baked convoys. :slight_smile:

I’m fine with throwing some Ultrafire cheapies in the oven, but I can’t bring myself to putting my convoys in there.

Yesterday I bypassed about 50 driver and tailcap springs. I had some free time. :stuck_out_tongue:

50? Wow

I thought the Clnvous have HA3
But mine are very nice in grey and mat black no need to bake them (I use the gas flames much faster then heating the whole oven)

The white smudges on the C8 is thermal past.
I am super happy with the way they came out.

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I also baked a blue convoy shorty tube, but I cant find it.

Turned out greyish blue. At one point the C8 head was grey, I took it out and it went back to black. Then It went to far to orangebrowncopper

On flames it is easy to remove with pliers

I really like your results, like old copper.

I used a cookie sheet on top rack of oven. Would like to try torching some for some effects.