What did you mod today?

Nice, Mike now go do something constructive. Oh yeah, forgot this is a hobby and this is what hobby’s are about.
Seriously this really is a sweet mod. :slight_smile:

Thanks. I haven’t had it long enough to melt plastic yet, but as it’s a plastic host I can’t feel how hot it is. Once the copper spacer heats up it might melt it’s way out :smiley:

Because of the driver position I don’t expect the temp sensor of the 85 will be much help. Doesn’t matter though, the idea is to make a alu casing for my headlamp project once I find out what kind of configuration I want. It’s leaning toward the dual LED config though, will be updating that thread with new progress next week or so.

So we end up with the strap left from the original light? :person_facepalming: :beer: :laughing:

A while ago I bought this lightcasltle then later sold it to a mate. He asked me recently to make it one mode. I considered just running DD but I figured he might let it run hot enough to desolder one of the leds. So I installed a single mode 9a driver The output may have dropped marginally but can’t really tell.

I added rollers to my lathe steady tonight. Drilled and tapped the points. Made small washers to space the bearings off. Installed :sunglasses:

Cool, at first I thought you were going to notch the points and put the bearings there instead.

Hey that’s a good idea. It never occurred to me since I was just mimicking what I had seen on the web. I’ll check if the material is thick enough to slot the bearing in. Thanks :slight_smile:

I fine tuned the fitment of a heat sink I made for another forum member, boy is it hot out there! We still have 2 months of summer to go, easy….

I put an old mercury thermometer on the central support column the other day, big 4x8 wood beam, so the thermometer is in the center of the shop, away from exterior walls by about 20’ and some 12-13’ from the peak of the roof, directly behind the lathe. It’s 104º in the shade, no air movement at all. Wicked! That’s 39.5ºC for y’all that don’t do Fahrenheit. :wink:

my fav small sun mod

Head from a zyt13. Tube and tail from a zyt27.

Fet driver with an XHP70, extra copper, two IMR 18350’s and BINGO ……

The side switch is inoperable. Would like to find a good driver w/ e-switch that will fit in this thing.

Also an OP reflector would make it my fav id say.

Would be awesome weapon mounted.

I was bored today…

You could sputter the reflector and both DrJones and led4power have E switch compatible drivers. Some MtnE drivers are compatible as well.

Finally today I made my first modded light:

  • Blue Convoy S2+ body
  • Nichia 219C 5000K
  • BLF X6 driver
  • Noctigon MCPCB
  • Soldered 3mm thick copper disc into the pill

It is bright, gets hot really quick. I spent a lot of time learning how to do things. Then about an hour to recognize that reflector was doing short circuit…from the temperature one spring collapsed due to hot, but fortunately - nothing else was burned.

Since I was using regular Convoy light - not the host - I had to desloder the driver from pill….that was really difficult. How do you do this?
Afer that - another challenge was to solder new driver in place…maybe you have also some hint for this?

Wow, nice job :)! The thing is, though, the parts (and work) you put into the modded headlight probably cost way more than the original one :)??

Thanks.

Of coarse, but I’m designing a headlamp that will be made from aluminum (CNC machining). This is just a protoype test to see if I want to make a triple headlamp alu case. I don’t think so though, I’’ll probably pursue my other expensive “cheapo” prototype: Build: Dual XP-L headlight project.

I made up an extension ring for a DQG 26650 to take a Khatod optic. I haven’t filled it with running gear yet. The thread onto the body worked out a little bit tight but I think it’s a good thing because I notched a groove in the extension ring for the optic to sit flat ie the optic has a nob on one side from manufacturing (I guess that’s what it is…?). Now the optic won’t try to spin when I screw the bezel on and off :sunglasses:

Nice fix, you should have a noticeably tighter beam profile and it looks pretty sweet too. :wink:

BLAAH!! I only just realized the optic is nowhere near aligned with the switch :person_facepalming: :weary:

Oh well, I’m not gonna change it now :frowning:

That’s gonna eat at ya like a bad burrito….

Edit: just rotate the optic some 60º and put a new slot in the adapter ring, lining up the TIR’s and still keeping the notch, albeit on a near opposite side. :wink:

Damned burrito’s. Yeh I might try your idea another day, thanks. Time for bed.

It’s always something…

How do I sputter the reflector? Never heard of that term being used in that context.

Otherwise thanx for the advice. I will look into it.