Here is a few pictures of different leds in the B158 and a couple of ring ins as I had them on me at the time. Distance to the dog house is 150 meters. Light conditions were poor with a full moon.
Firstly my C83 to show the scene.
Stock light.
XPL HI stock driver.
XPE2 Torch led 2.1 amp driver.
XPE2 Red stock driver.
XPE2 Red/Orange stock driver.
BLF D80.
ZYT08 Aluminium reflector XPL HI BLF TK DD driver.
I dont know many women folk that fool around RBD. Unfortunately I'm about 5 times bigger than the dog house and with the sacked assistants trying to get in there isn't a lot of room.
I'm sure you remember the C83 djozz as you were the second person to comment. It still brings a smile to my dial on high.
Does anybody know how/where to obtain XP-E2 size centering rings for the spare pills? All the spare pills I got are sized for XML size emitters, but I wanted to build them with XP-Es. I think I need the white and the black pieces.
I emailed Brinyte, but haven’t gotten a response yet.
XPE is the same as XPG, Nichia 219.
Edit - Hoop can cut you something custom if you need it but an aspheric lens doesn’t need a centering disc if the mcpcb is the right size. Just black out everything that shows.
The pill has a 19mm opening, my Noctigon MCPCB is 16 mm. I don’t have a way to accurately turn down a 20 mm MCPCB to 19 mm.
My plan is/was to use Arctic Alumina on the MPCPCB and tighten down the factory centering ring. My red light came with the centering ring appropriately sized for the XP-E led. My extra pills came with XML size centering rings that are way to big for XPE/XPG/Nichia 219 builds I planned.
I was hoping someone had a lead on factory parts b/c Gearbest and Fasttech do not have them.
I’d have to double check, but I’m pretty sure I used the Convoy XP-sized centering rings (for say a C8 or L2) when using an XP-L or XP-G in my B158 builds
You can get them from Mtn here, or directly from Simon (Convoy) on AliExpress
Hey everyone just got two b158’s, excellent quility! I want to get a new driver, a 17mm-mtn-ddm. Does the tail switch need to changed? I think it’s a forward clickie, it’s not like a x5 or x6 tail switch. If it doesn’t need to be changed how do you get into configuration setup i.e.: 16+ taps and mode changing. Thanks for your help!
For a forward clicky, you would get into configuration the same way, except you’d have to either hold the switch in, or fully click it in to see the config options.
If you have a spare reverse clicky tailswitch in the same size pcb, you could swap it in. I did so on mine, and while its not a perfect fit, it works.