What did you mod today?

Very nice!
Low mode is “enough” low ?

Nice work Of. I had faith in your abilities all along. You have just put a big smile on my dial. :slight_smile:
Now what is the hot rod driver going into?

After just building fourteen red XP-E2 lights for other people (hunters), I figured I would build a special one for myself. The deep red Luxeon rebel has always intrigued me, and I needed a change from the XPE2s. This is the first rebel I’ve had mounted on a direct thermal path SinkPad II. These little rebels are rated for max 750mA, so I had to drive them at 1.5A per emitter. As already posted, I stacked a Qlite drive for 4.5A to run my triple. SinkPad triple boards are set up for easy series hookup, but not so convenient for parallel. You also have to remember to grind the edges, or it won’t fit in a 20Mm tube.

I started by building a little contact board to run the 22AWG Teflon leads from the driver pads. This mod wouldn’t have worked with silicone wires as they are twice as thick.

Attaching the 26AWG Teflon LED wires.

I had to expand the hole in the SinkPad, and still barely got the wires through. It’s a good thing I thought to stick an insulater disc to the roof of the pill, as there is no more room left inside. It’s jammed in tight. There is no room to store any slack wire. A real tight fit.

All the wires had to be sized and stripped to the exact length at the emitter. Time to add a Carlco optic and screw this baby into somethin.

A red triple should always be installed in a red host. That’s class.

Yep! It’s red alright.

Still red. My cat seems to like it.

Still red

Here’s the 18350 version for those who prefer a shorty.

Q: Why did Ouchyfoot build himself a red flashlight?
A: He has absolutely no idea.

Because he COULD!
Nice one, looks pretty stinking awesome! :smiley:

I’m still amazed how you guys do this type of mod. Nice work.
I see you have a cat picture ready to enter into OL latest giveaway. :slight_smile:

where can i buy illuminated tailcap?

Put an XP-L Hi into a Solarforce Pro-1 and hooked up a 2.8A driver I had, running a single 18650.

Works ok. :slight_smile:

Visit the link in my signature to order parts to build your own if you’d like. I don’t sell them personally.

Sometimes it’s the simple things…

I “modded” the new Trustfire TR-J20 and gained 1000 lumens plus a few. Easy peasy mod, as it were. My Trustfire 32650’s came in from Richard, they bested the BASEN 26650’s by that 1000 lumens. Sometimes the right cell choice is HUGE, taking this one from 17.64A to 21.71A at the tail.

The UCLp lens gained me just shy of 400 lumens as well. So for a lens swap and the right cells I’m up 1400 lumens. I’m taking it! :wink:

“Final” count, 12,765 lumens out the front.

Cut it out Dale! One of these days you’re going to ignite the atmosphere leaving nothing but a charred wasteland.

What driver did you put in the TG06? I am liking the yellows/reds/oranges!

Must admit I’m really liking that yellow gold tailcap. Todays mod was another s2+. This one with A6 driver, triple CU spacer and triple V2 1A. This was a first in that the triple was huge. I tried the carclo and multiple hosts all nogo. First glass only triple. A little too cool for my liking but it certainly fills a room. Heading outside now. Also finished one that did nothing but cause problems.

Are you accusing him of being an economist? :stuck_out_tongue:

A glass triple optic? Where did you get it? Can you post a link to it?

This thread certainly lacks pics…WE NEED PICS !

It has one of wight’s PZL drivers, 6 7135’s for 2.2amps to a shaved 219c

Copper, what’s not to love?

Those were done last week,

Yesterday was an all out blitz on the lathe to complete 7 lights with heat sinks for a friend. 7 hours on the lathe, then I came in and re-assembled the lights. Each light had cooling fins cut and some additions to aid grip on the tube. Even made my first cutting tool from an old (some 70 years) High Speed Steel planer blade. :slight_smile:

I’m too old for this… :frowning:

Add: My first triple that a carclo would not fit so had to use a “clear glass lens only” No clearance using the giant CU spacer.

Shadow JM35 XHP50

I wanted to increase the current transit, but I also wanted that the change was fully reversible; so I removed the spring at the base of the tail and replaced with a spacer, realized by compressing the aluminum foil. The compactness of the spacer is such that even the front spring is compressed up to touch, between them, all the coils.
I got a good increase in current flow, I think a good 25% (When I can I will make the instrumental comparisons).

And now I can use the protected battery, both 26650 (test with protected Soshine 4200) and 18650 (test with different protected batteries).
The spacer for unprotected batteries is 10mm thick; for protected is 6mm thick.

i also have a red flashlight! and i even know why i built it! :student:
I haven’t used it much neither. but since the host was called torpedo, and looks like one, i thought about submarines and red light, so i put a red xp-e in it… :slight_smile: