Hey!
i had time to play a bit with my (well known) uniquefire 1405…
the “flood” position with the head completely backwards
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the “beam” position with the head (nearly ;)) all way out
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looking that light into the eye reveals that there is something not stock 
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i used plastidip to give the light a black eye to get rid of all most of that standard ringieness…
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the educated reader have spotted another modification i am sure …
the Stock XM-L2 on Aluminium was replaced by a (gasoline) dedomed XP-G2 - mounted on a noctigon Copper DTP MCPCB
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some UV-shots:
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to drive that LED harder i added a R100 resistor on top of the original R120 sense resistor - which pushed the Amperes (measured at the tailcap) to 2,3A
note: a second R100 on top blowed a LED instantly because the driver does not like to be overdriven too hard!
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i also soldered thicker wires to the LED and did a positive spring bypass (which had no measureable effect - due to the 2S configuration i think)
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due to the thicker noctigon i could not focus - a cheap solution came in my mind:
now it is possible to focus far away…
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beamshots…
ISO800 / 1sec
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ISO200 / 1sec
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a black hole? (ceiling lights are ON !)
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problems that only could be solved buying a new lens due to brocken edges and “medium” quality:
(colorfading and funny shape - pictures made in automatic mode to show them better)
pictures made before the blackening!
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Videos have been shot after the blackening…
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numb3rs (as taken - maybe a bit high…):
| XM-L2 | domed | 2,2A | |
| flood | 730 Lm | 0.25 kLux@3m | 2.25 kLux@1m |
| zoom | 420Lm | 12.2 kLux@3m | 109.8 kLux@1m |
| XP-G2 | dedomed | 2,3A | |
| flood | 730 Lm | 0.26 kLux@3m | 2.34 kLux@1m |
| zoom | 430Lm | 52 kLux@3m | 468 kLux@1m |
its not perfect - but cheap
but I am not a fan of plastidip.