ā¦in 6 Days we have a āMeetingā, with lots of Luxmeters and Ulbricht Sphere, then we will make Beamshots.
Nice mod Andi. If I had time Iād love to have a play with the XHP35.
I still hope to get there too but I fear, since I can only start off on saturday, that I will not be able to get to south Germany in time (and rush back to Amsterdam on sunday)
Very clean work there Dale.
Thank you sir. Adding 11 ounces of heat sink to the TR-J20.
Today i got bored so i decided to do some modding on my ultrafire sk98, this is a flashlight that i bought few years ago when i didnāt know anything about flashlights but at the time for me it was very good and i loved it, until i later i discovered that is sucks compared to a lot other flashlights
My first mod attempts were done on this flashlight and they did not came out very successful, i managed to destroy the driver and the dedomed first gen XML T6 in one go, shorting an li-ion it is a bad thing to do
Now i decided to actually revive this thing, so here is what i did
First i chopped some alu. star so i can fill that hole in the pill, not the best work in the world but sure it is better than stock.
Next was the LED, XP-G2 S2, new gen, reflowed on noctigon 20mm pcb, and dedomed ofc
After the LED it was time for the driver, after destroying the stock drier i installed qlite rev.A with 3 chips removed, now i soldered back one 7135 chip and reused the same driver with changed LED wires.
After doing all this it was time for the tail cap and switch assembly, it was very bad and damaged from using protected NCR B so it was time to fix it.
Before
After
And after all this the flashlight was completed, i started this without any expectations and now after all things i done i kinda like the result, it is no match for some other mods here but i think it deserved new life.
Some numbers:
2A at the emitter for a total of 29600cd @ 1m or 344 meters of trow
Finally had time to finish S2+ triple XPG3, I used new X6-X5 driver from BG and got some strange behaviour, Strange behaviour, according to product page there should be 6 modes, I āclickā thru them in ascending order and get to 6th, sometimes 5th mode it just blinks (split of a second) like it entered that mode but then immediately switches to first, lowest mode, same thing happens when I go reverse, medium press to go from lowest mode to highest.
It sounds like you may have gotten the Astrolux A6 driver.
Try programming it using the A6 UI and see what happen.
Yeah! :+1: way to go BobbyMK!
Our motto is āwe never give up, even if it kills usāā¦or takes a year or so to get around to it. Mod fails just eat away at your craw until you overcome them.
Nice job on the aluminum pill insert.
What exactly happens I donāt know, but I had that and it went away with a good highdrain battery.
Using a protected battery can sometimes cause misbehave like you have, so if you are using one i suggest to try it with unprotected high drain battery.
Thanks, Ouchyfoot.
I actually wanted to chop a noctigon XM board but then again i didnāt wanted to destroy it for this light, but now if i would knew that it will work this good i would probably fitted the noctigon
Make sure you have solid ground contacts, and a high drain cell. The ATTiny25 is sensitive to slight changes in current and exhibits this drop-out behavior if everything isnāt just right.
O yeah, I forgot to mention, I tried Panasonic 18650PF, Samsung 30Q, Samsung 25R, happens no matter the cell.
I have LG G2 cells that I didnāt try but somehow I doubt it will make a difference.
P.S. I also had it assembled with older Astrolux S1 A17DD-L FET+1 and it worked just fineā¦
Thatās a very good looking mod, it looks like it was made that way. I did the same mod and it donāt look like that at all :weary:
Very nice work
That is one neat clean cut out for the volt meter.
You did a cleaner cut than the stock ones for USB ports
I do hereby put forth my nomination for zipelgas to modify a group buy set of this battery charger with voltage monitor. Do I hear a second?
I had the same behavior on a triple 219C with the same banggood driver you had (used the Kronos X6 driver).
Iām not an expert, but what I saw was that too many amps caused it to shut off in the highest modes. The low vf of the 219C means that itāll suck up lots of amps. I think I read that XP-G3s also have a low vf. If I used a regular NCRB, I could go to the high mode no problem. High drain cells just made it blink and shut off. Strobe mode wouldnāt work either.
I swapped it to an A6 driver, and it works fine.
I reused the driver with a triple XP-L and it just barely is under the amp threshold to cause the high mode to function. If I try to take a tail reading with my clamp meter, high mode doesnāt work because the low resistance of wire. But high mode works with the tailcap due to the added resistance. I think 14+ amps causes that banggood X5/X6 driver to act funky.
RMM said his driver wouldnāt have that problem due to better parts and layout.