What did you mod today?

The X5 looks close to some of the pictures of non dyed HAIII I’ve seen. How hot did you have to get it to have it start changing?

I did my Solarforce M8 in the oven at over 550º, took FOREVER. lol Same military drab olive green look.

t was on the gasflames and after a mnute of 2 the change started.
The cheaper lights were all changed withn two minutes tops.

Got two finished today.

First my old SRK, now with a 32x 380mA 7135 driver, Noctigons, springs bypass, extra copper heatsink and illuminated aluminium switch.

Second was my Xeno Cube triple, now with 3x XP-L HI on Noctigon, Carlco 10507 TIR optic, handmade 5x19mm copper spacer, spring bypass, trit and 17mm FET driver. 6A startup from a Red Trustfire 14500 IMR cell.

I modified a broken LED Lenser P14 by removing the (mechanical) driver, changing it to one mode direct drive.

That is very nice!

NovaTac with Ti Flame bezel

This one is my favorite! Pulls 1.3 amps with regular cr123s, and 3 amps with IMR123s. Per the Cree product characterization that is good for 1100 lumes and 2300 for this J4 XPH-50. On the IMR batteries it will make you giggle!

Beamshot on low, 2 feet. This has no donut holes, just one sweet smooth beam. Oh, and exposure on phone is –2 for the shots. These are with just cr123 batteries

This one is twelve feet away

Today I decided to mod an old friend… guess the model and year of this light! :sunglasses:

This pic might give you a hint as to how old is it…

Look at that cutting edge led (Back in the day!)

Had to drill that delrin retention disk to get it out

Yep that is an old led, do you remember what it is? Think hard now!

Now, what to put inside… Decisions, decisions, decisions!

One thing I never understood is why dafuq did jetbeam think this was a good idea! a frigging HOLE right in the center where the led goes!!! WTF!!!

We have a winner!

Here is the results!
Left is this Jetbeam Jet II IBS on highest setting, at the right is the Manker T01 on turbo, Not bad for an 8 year old flashlight!

Well, I took a Nitecore EA41 Pioneer, removed all the guts, made a custom heatsink from some copper, had Richard over at MtnElectronics make a momentary switch MtnMax driver running 12v at 2 amps, and stuck it all in the housing with an XHP-35 HI and 4x14500’s. Now I have an EA41 with an XHP-35 HI in it!

I’m sorry, I had to giggle a little bit on this one… :stuck_out_tongue:
Some pictures surely intensify the feeling. :beer:
Don’t you just hate it when a mod doesn’t go as you planned?
I say hit it with some MAP gas and see it if responds…LOL

Crazy stuff. What are your thoughts so far?

I really like it. it went from 35k candela stock to now just over 77k. It gets pretty warm in high, but it’s very usable in the lower modes. I’ve been wanting to make a light with that led in it since it was released. I happened to find that the ea41 had the batteries in series and BOOM, that was all she wrote.

Trustfire Mini 02 XP-L Hi triple

Nice mod CRX, did you use the stock twisty driver?

Thanks. Yes it still has the stock driver but i will most likely change that to a FET to put those LEDs to good use. }:slight_smile:

It will be hot in there!!

For what that is worth, nice about the stock driver is that works with a cr123 primary (at reduced output)

started working on ZY - T08 pill
1st step done - removed the led shelf

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A Convoy C8 with the alu pill and 16mm star.

Sliced dome XHP-50 directdrive, forward clicky, does get a bit hot but not to hot to hold with two black Keeppower 18350.

Runtime is not that great on two 18350, and I don’t have any protected in that size.

So I tried this :

The tube from the Javelot is a bit longer in the treads but it works, so now I can use two 18500 or the extension with two 18650.

One hour of cooking…

And half an hour extra.

Resistor mod with a single R100 and dedomed XML2 3D.

79.560 Cd (564) . It was the 27.739 Cd (333m) first generation TK35, with XML T6.

That illuminated switch on the SRK looks real nice, CRX.

Yesterday I designed another 3AA to D adapter. Parallel configuration. It’s designed with solid brass plates as the contacts, isolated and retained by G10 composite board.