Please PM me and let me know if these options are still available:
Option #3
- Ice Blue/Red/Blue trits
- Red in tail cap
Total cost to deliver to 93737 (California) and expected delivery time.
Thanks - MCT
PMed.
Mine made it in today! Not a triple, but still from Rey!
Found thru hole clips for them at a reasonable price as well!
Is that driver the one from this thread you linked ? The linked driver doesn’t look like it has the solderable stars called for in the firmware you used.
I got my triple from you and it’s very nice, but I want a moonlight mode and I’d like to confirm that the driver supports one before I start taking it apart.
Does that clip fit on the Tool? That looks like an “old-style” Preon clip, one that according to this discussion doesn’t actually fit.
It is 18650 flashlight clip, won’t fit any tool ti AAA.
Here is how to operate the driver, the moon mode is hidden, but it’s not low enough.
Nope Rey, it does not fit. I would almost kill for about 3 clips that would fit. I do not carry the Ti’s or the coppers out of the house after my copper popped a clip and it sat in the yard for a week. Had to travel to get my metal detector to find it.
Thanks. Looks like the mode memory even supports starting from a hidden mode. Unfortunately there’s an extremely bright pre-flash if you start in the hidden moonlight mode, which defeats a lot of the purpose. Guess I may end up changing the driver…
After using it for a few weeks, I have encountered some issues with the light, can anyone help me with these?
- Sometimes the light does not turn off. Turning it on sets it to turbosometimes, to low other times, half clicks do nothing and turning it off switsches to some kind of moonlight (actually less bright than the hidden moonlight) but does not actually turn the light off. No idea what causes this.
- Shaking and small bumps switch modes…
- The light actually turns off when tailstanding/facing the sky.
- The light won’t even turn on with a Samsung 30Q, I’m assuming because it’s too short. It will turn on with a Sony VTC5 but black residue on the spring suggests arcing… Those two differ by about a millimetre max.
I guess one remedy might be to screw the part holding the spring further into the tube, but I have no tools for that and it likely won’t fix most of these issues. Anyone got any ideas?
I’m using a button magnet with a 30Q.
Please use tweezers to screw the brass retainer outside a bit, and then screw the steel retainer into the tail. So the button will go deeper and won’t have any problem in tailstanding.
I have a Reylight Ti Triple host that I installed triple XPL HI in.
Great looking and feeling host.
Only problem with it is the switch. The threads on the switch mechansim were too small. I’d screw in the switch, then screw in the retaining ring. And the retaining ring would literally cause the switch mechanism to skip out of its threads without tightening.
I solved the problem by sticking some copper solder braid in the threads between the switch mechanism and the body tube.
Other than that, great host!
Thanks for this tip, worked like a charm.
Glad to hear that.
Unfortunately, I have no suitable tools on hand (none of my tweezers get a good enough grip). I’ll see if I can borrow some specialized tools somewhere.
Though one problem does remain: Any ideo on why the light would randomly turn on (and stay on) even when switched off? When this happens, I can’t even switch modes, turning it on just makes it slightly brighter… I don’t think itis caused by the switch not being screwed in as tight as possible as even when using a small conductor between battery and spring to secure it, it still happens. Is the switch or driver damaged? Am I doing something wrong?
So I screwed the switch deeper into the tube and it now works while tailstanding (and with Samsung batteries) but it still has that issue where it always stays on and only gets a little brighter when actually switched on. It has gotten more common and now makes it impossible to use the light because it starts lighting up as soon as it’s put together and switching modes is impossible (brightness is always the same when switched on). After a while then, the light turns off and cannot be switched on again for a while…
Anyone got any idea what causes this?
Two possibilities, 1)the switch spring (when compressed) touches the side somewhere, so the battery-minus is bypassing the switch, you can try to look for that happening and perhaps bend/shift something to solve that, 2)internal switch problem ->replace the switch/have it replaced.
@djozz, thanks for the advice.
@redinzane, have you tried this? remove the tail and bypass the battery negative pole and the flashlight body.
It will shoot the trouble. pic below:
Thanks, I just did and it worked, including mode switching. Since I’m 99% sure it’s not the spring shorting it (doesn’t seem to bend that way) it must be the switch then (someone on Reddit suggested that the high current of the triple may have melted the switch).
If you still have any switches left for this light, I’m now in the market for a switch assembly.
Sorry I couldn’t find any, will try to get one. Please pm me your shipping address.
FWIW, I used the switch and retaining ring from a BLF EE X6, and put a spare Convoy switch+ring into the X6. The Rey titanium light was a bit more picky about which parts it liked, but I had a part which worked so I used it.
(it helps that I have a bunch of head-only lights for testing purposes, which leaves me with extra body and tail parts)