Broke two drivers:
Spring sprung:
Star missing:
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Anyone else care to share photos of their mistakes ?
my ex wife don’t allow me to post pix from her…
Bam!
I will have to post pics of my sk68 q5 to xml2 mistake.
Man that spring looks abused hahaha. How did that happen? Too much heat?
No pictures but a few days ago while replacing wires to the LEDs in my Fandyfire Warrior I managed to wire pos to neg on the LEDs and blew the driver and one of the LEDs
Morale of the story while on codeine tablets for recent back injury don’t take things apart lol
Pics from her? What modification did she do to you? 
Sorry to hear about your bad night. I sure have had my fill of them.
You probably already know this, but just in case. Those drivers are not lost. Just insert and solder some copper wire in those via's and make a loop on the top one or bridge on the second one. For the first one, after soldering in the loop, solder a copper disk with a spring on it to the loop and then squirt some glue under it to secure it.
Well I have just pulled apart my Sunwayman V10r Ti+ cross your fingers for me that I don’t have to post back here again during this mod! Haha
Reduced his input by 50%
I’ve had flu for the past week and really should be resting, but last night I decided I would add a switch to a fan. I didn’t take enough care when drilling holes, so the switch is mounted slightly askew. :zipper_mouth_face:
It’s a small but annoying detail that reminds me how I rue the days when even simple things takes ten times as long. >.< I am just glad I stopped when I did.
Yeah try and fix it. Maybe some sandpaper and luck
Good thing is that both those drivers are salvageable.
The 105C can be fixed with epoxy. After all, that is how the copper is clad onto the FR4 base material. Run come small wires into the vias to reconnect.
The missing star is no big deal as you can again, add a wire into the via instead or even work it from the other side by grounding the associated pin.
The copper clad epoxy is generally very heat tolerant, but not pressure tolerant. If you deform the copper with pressure when it is hot, it will separate.
Sheesh, that’s nothing. Here ya go-
XML2 driving hard with a cheap black gasket salvaged from a SolarForce P-60…
Smoked the emitter. I think the gasket was made out of the same stuff electricians tape is made from.
Triple XML on multiple levels of poor thermal conduction and BLF DD17 driver with a Samsung 25 R yields XMLs shifting from a beautiful bright neutral to fade into a warm green and melted the TIR onto 2 of the LEDs.
There is more but sometimes I’m too embarrassed and busy cursing to bother with a picture. Also my soldering skills have improved from that lousy job I did in that picture of the XML and I am junking my 30watt dumb iron that eats soldering tips and have a Hakko 888D in the mail. Now when I trash a project the solder joints will look much nicer.
After rewiring my COURUI big head in series, adding a tail switch, building a heavy duty copper pill and a 7A driver, I was ready to go.
I installed batteries and began screwing on the head for it's first modified blast of light. I had about one turn to go and the cheap threads collapsed and jammed.
It would not come apart. I had to hacksaw it in half.
This made me cry. To get the light apart the head was damaged and the thread here and the battery tube was buggered. This was after two months machining. It nearly made it into the bin and yes I cried a lot.
We’ll all cry together. :_(
This is not even all of them that I have manged to kill. This is just the parts pile. I also have no idea how many emitters I have killed.
