10180 clicky?

LED Flashlights ā€“ General Info Other Battery Type Flashlights
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MecArmy PT10.

10180 powered triple.

However, personally I think it looks rather comical having such a huge head with such a tiny body. :partying_face:

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You guys need to stop putting ideas in my head :laughing:

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CRX - ā€œThis video is privateā€?

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Itā€™s not very good anyway! My first video attempt just showing the light working - see it now?

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Yeah, I see it. What did you do? Those pictures donā€™t tell the whole story!

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Itā€™s a secret :stuck_out_tongue: - just kiddin

I drilled a 5mm hole in the endcap, drilled the shelf out the extension piece and installed one of those round 10mm omten switches with a couple of magnets on top and a piece of poly tube around it.
Not finished yet but i thought iā€™d show.

Itā€™s a fairly easy mod if you get the extension with the hole through it then you only need drill the endcap.

This mod might be more functional with the fairy or spy as there would be a covering round the switch and that would still leave an attachment point but you would need to still twist the head for modes.

Nearly forgot - the reason itā€™s a three mode and works the way it does is because the driver is from the new DQG Hobi Plus which operates differently from the older models.

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Wow! I have all the right piecesā€¦ except the little Omten switch. :cry:
Great mod, though! Looks like it was meant to be that way!

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Yeah iā€™m surprised how well it went, just found out it can stick sideways to metal objects too.

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nice mod thats for sureā€¦.and boy do you work fast.
they definitely need to come out with something similiar for those that cant mod.

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CRX
That will go viral :smiley:

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Firelight2
itā€™s a 10440. Let alone the design
http://www.gearbest.com/led-flashlights/pp_313140.html

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Nice mod CRX!
How long is it? Please post photo along with AAA battery if possible and/or with original Hobi. Is it SS or titanium?

I think you should add some plastic pipe/heat shrink or cut to size PP foam around the magnets to immobilize them so they would not move in case the flashlight is dropped.

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ā€¦or just replace the magnets with a metal post that has a flange around the bottom so it canā€™t escape the tail cap.

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Thanks, yeah a smaller factory switch designed for it could make it at least 5mm shorter.

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:laughing: 35 views and countingā€¦

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Titanium version, easier to drill than stainless steel iā€™ve found. Best to saw off the post before drilling.

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The magnets are epoxied to the top of the switch, canā€™t move and strong enough to hold horizontally.

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That was my first thought but i had nothing suitable in my parts box.
I really wanted to keep the post with the hole through it so it could still have a keyring attachment, i might make a post with a hole and flange at a later date, that would be cool.

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I have the switch epoxied in place, an o-ring under the polycarbonate tube at the switch side which is compressed to give a tight fit when assembled.
Iā€™ve left the tube removable for now.
The switch post has some lubed spare o-rings on it and offers a half decent seal against the inside top of the endcap - it can take a quick dunk.

Edit - Added split ring attachment

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CRX, your pics are really making me want to mod my Hobi. Since I donā€™t have any small switches available, my mind keeps wandering over to your scratch build lights, with the homemade magnetic switchingā€¦ :student:

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I feel a sudden tugging at my wallet ā€¦ nice, NICE mod of a light Iā€™d assured myself Iā€™d never need to buy.
Dagnabbit ā€¦

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Haha, patience, just order up some 10mm round switches and play around with the idea.
I was not really concerned about making a mess of the endcap because i had a spare from one of the pill capsules i bought a long time ago and could/ still can revert it back to original if i like.

Keep in mind though that i have the electronic three mode driver in mine, not the mechanical two mode so you would have to very finely tune yours and still need to twist the head between high and low unless you mod it some other way but i think that would still be ok.

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Thanks, they are very nice lights :smiling_imp:

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Wait, the two-mode light is mechanical? That makes it even better! I have several of the extension tubes lying around. If the mechanical driver allows it, a 10mm FET driver could be fit into one of those and programmed with an e-switch firmware. It could then be a self-contained add-on driver module for the light. You could screw together everything tightly and only ever open it to charge the battery. The mechanical driver would still control the top-end current limit, but the FET driver would give you more modes (as many as the MCU could handle) with a side e-switch control capability! :partying_face:

Edit: Just realized. Any add-on driver would have to be (re)designed to control the positive side of the circuit, since thatā€™s how the Hobi is built. That, or gut out the stock driver and replace it somehow.

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I like your way of thinking :wink:

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Stainless steel Quantum mule with tritium momentary switch, XM-L2 4C on sinkpad, magnetic tail and quantum tunneling composite (QTC) pill.
Moonlight to 1.5A variable.

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DQG PCL

Momentary direct drive tail switch and variable output via QTC pills so you can twist the head for variable output or press the button for 100%.

Moonlight to 1.5A.

Length - 27.3mm
Diameter - 12.7mm
Weight - 12gm