I wanted to build an MT-G2 light from my Small Sun but I don’t want to direct drive or piggyback some driver in the huge cavity. Instead of this I asked Texas Ace to design a TA driver specially for the ZY-T08. Big thanks for him!
Firstly I builded the driver:
Because I thought there will be a lot of heat, I found a 10mm thick copper plate on the shelf so need to make it round to fit in the pill.
I don’t have access to a lathe so it was hard work
And it fit:
But I thought I can fit in another one above this so made another circle from the left copper and soldered them together:
Then cutted out the top shelf of the pill to put the led star directly on the copper.
Then glued in the copper with thermal compound. It was a tight fit.
And after that I modified the switch board to put in batteries in series instead of stock parallel. Cutted the trace between springs and the switch to the body contact. And made some holes to solder some wires from spring to switch through the board.
Made the hole bigger in reflector to fit the MT-G2. I used 18 AWG wires to the led so I put kapton tape to the bottom of reflector to avoid shorts and not to hurt led.
Made solder blobs for battery contact. Even work with flat tops.
Driver and led:
Soldered in:
Made some polarity markings to not mess up:
No electrical contact here so lot of thermal paste used here:
Everything in the place:
The edge of head lifted the batteries from contact so I done a little work here.
And it works:
Conrtol shot:
High with 7×7135 and 2.5A current:
Turbo with Fet and I measured 11.9 A without battery tube but the 22AWG wires probably lower this in the springs so I will later measure it at switch:
Nice beams:
Edit:
Measured numbers:
Output: 4830 lumens
Intensity: 62 Kcd
Throw: 498m
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I enjoyed the thread very much! Thanks for sharing. Amazes me you could get the copper rounded
And since it was so easy, you did a second one! Must be exciting to turn on the finished product for the 1st time.
Sure it was! First time I only put on two battery with my hand and connected them with a wire. Then put them in the tube and nothing happened. That is when I realized the edge of head pushed down the batteries
But 5 minutes dremeling and then worked fine.
The hard thing was soldering the copper pieces together. I have a video about that. When paste melted between coppers the top one sliding on the bottom one like it was on super slippery ice. It almost fell down when I removed from the hot plate.
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Mods: Imalent MS18 dedoming, Astrolux MF01-20K, Small sun T08 MT-G2, Eagle eye X6 triple XPL, Ultrafire F13 MT-G2, Convoy C8 XHP70, Solarstorm T3 triple XP-L HI
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Very fun build. I love when people think “the more copper, the better!”
Looking really good!!
Nice work Zozz.
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Nice Job,,,,it would be nice to be able to build your own light and then “see” it all come together w/ an awesome light saber!
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Thank you very much!
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Mods: Imalent MS18 dedoming, Astrolux MF01-20K, Small sun T08 MT-G2, Eagle eye X6 triple XPL, Ultrafire F13 MT-G2, Convoy C8 XHP70, Solarstorm T3 triple XP-L HI
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Sweet! You can also cut a strip from an aluminum can and wire that around the two copper pieces to keep them aligned. The solder won’t stick to the aluminum.
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Nice work
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Soldering the coppers together:
Reviews: Olight Seeker2 pro, Lumintop GlowI, Sofirn SP36, Convoy 4X18A, Convoy M21C, Brinyte SR8 Rescue Angel, Astrolux MF01 mini, Astrolux FT03S, YLP Sherp S15, Sofirn SP40, YLP Panda 3R and Unicorn, Armytek Prime C1 Pro, Acebeam M50, Imalent MS18, Convoy M3, Nitecore TIP2, Imalent RT70, Wuben T70, Sofirn SP32A, Thorfire VG15S, Thorfire VG10S, Thorfire TG06S
Mods: Imalent MS18 dedoming, Astrolux MF01-20K, Small sun T08 MT-G2, Eagle eye X6 triple XPL, Ultrafire F13 MT-G2, Convoy C8 XHP70, Solarstorm T3 triple XP-L HI
Big flashlight measurement and beamshot collection
3D printing stuff for flashlights
My flashlight related Instagram
My Flashlight related Youtube channel called Zozzlights