Well it is what it is. I stuck a DRY driver in my Trustfire 3T6.
The good: four modes; nice low, good medium, very bright high, scary high turbo
the bad: Only runs with three batteries, two is just a tiny tiny bit of light. (Quick turn it off something is wrong here)
the ugly: Even with a boatload of tinfoil there is no possible way to run this on turbo for any period of time. Thirty seconds tops and then it’s hot hot hot.
The upside was it was very easy to do and would be a breeze to swap back. I think for now I’ll leave it. I’m liking the four modes and the ability to zap it into turbo just to impress myself.
It would be fairly easy to swap out the T6’s for L2’s but I don’t think I will bother. With the heat sinking issue I don’t think it will be worth it. I will say this though now on high it competes with the SRK and it’s nice having the real low. The turbo is a bit crazy.
I got the driver free but they are only $5 at Fancy Flashlights.
I noticed that the one you had said it becomes a buck driver with 3 cells in use. I believe the DRY is Direct drive when used with 3 18650’s. So as long as you have some good cells it should be brighter on Turbo. The DRY driver is supposed to kick down to high after 120 seconds I haven’t let it go that long yet.
Well anyway good luck and I hope it works out better for you. If this doesn’t work for you I don’t know what will because I can’t see pushing 3 T6 led’s any harder in this host.
The batteries should be fine and you will be getting slightly more than 2 amps per emitter. I have used this driver in a single led flashlight and on high is 6 amps which is around what you are getting. I would suggest that this driver is working ok in your light. How does it compare now compared to the stock light?
that’s the problem; I used the light with the stock driver very briefly, took a couple of photos at night, which are now MIA…
I know the KD driver is brighter, but without putting the stock driver back in, I don’t have a side-by-side comparison.
I guess that I really wanted to be ‘wowed’ by this light, but so-far, it’s really been only so-so….
I figured that other high-end lights with this configuration (TK75 etc) seemed to have great performance, & that if I drove the TR-3T6 hard enough, it’d be in the same ballpark, but maybe I’m missing something??
Anyway respect for 18sixfifty, one of the cazyest moders around,
He was from what I know the first to super mod the trustfire tr-j19 with dedomed xml2`s and xpg2`s, inspiring me to choose my super thrower project !
Yes, and as I asked Ric the BTU Shocker with DRY driver will be phased out soon, as this new version of DRY driver cannot be fitted inside the Shocker anymore. On the other hand I am pretty sure that the DRY flashlight driver compartment has been modified to fit this new driver as well. Don’t know what is the reason behind to modify this DRY driver by them.
I assume CNQG is only down temporarily, but I’m told that Ric will no longer stock the old DRY driver anyway. Some of the drivers carried at LCK-LED may be good choices: www.lck-led.com/flashlight-driver-c-135.html
HKJ reviewed at least one of those. Several are available through various sources. Check the links at the top of my 17mm QX5241 driver thread for more options.
As I asked Ric last time he told me they have stopped producing and selling the DRY driver anymore. I wonder what driver do they use in their DRY flashlight then.