I have heard that some people will place a very small dot of superglue on the middle of the resistors already on the board, then lay the new stacking resistor on top. This sets up very quickly and holds the new resistor in place while you solder the two ends. It would make it very easy to do, almost impossible to mess up, as long as only a very small dab of glue is used so it doesn’t cover the metal ends of the resistor on the board and get it the way of soldering.
Other’s like to use hemostats or forceps to clamp the new resistor in place lightly, then solder it on each end.
On this particular light, you don’t even have to remove the driver… the wires to the led are long enough that the driver can be tilted out facing you and you can stack the new resistor in a few seconds, put the light back together and you’re good to go.
I tend to modify virtually every light I get, many with the FET+1 driver. So I have stacks of removed drivers from X6’s and D80’s and countless other lights. The D80 driver from LuckySun has 2 of the R140 resistors, one for each of the small 3 legged MOSFETs on the board. I simply removed an R140 from one of these and went with it on the L6 driver. It ended up with a decent amp draw that allowed good run time and some 4000+ lumens.
Hearing your story adds a different slant to your original comment.
Good of you to post that. It’s all good. Yeah, we are a bit of a family-friendly forum that way.
Awesome of you to hook up your Filipino friends like that! I had a lot of Filipino friends growing up. I really enjoy their culture. Like you said there were parties all the time. The hand made finger sized spring rolls and noodle dished were SOOO delicious! There was this Filipino Elvis impersonator that was at almost all the parties somehow and he’d always be rocking out in full costume singing. :laughing: Little Filipino kids were always running around the parties and sometimes they’d point at me and call me round-eye and giggle and run away. LOL
Man I miss all that. :+1:
TA and I provided a few links on the previous page where they can be found at Arrow for dirt cheap and with “free” shipping. Check those out, should be what you’re looking for.
Please don’t forget I started a modding thread dedicated to the L2 and L6 here.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t post this info here but my hope was that the L2/L6 modding thread would be the go-to place for L6 and L2 modding info…
Just saying…
It’s here if you want to use it.
I’ve wanted to bump up the power on my L6, but didn’t have a resistor. I started thinking about the stock FX30 driver I bought at Kaidomain. I had planned to swap it into my L6 and do mods to it, but decided not to. What’s funny is that it was supposed to come with an R100 and R082 resistor and is supposed to pull about 4.5 amps on high. Simon modded his drivers with a pair of R082 to bump up the output to 5.25 or so. I started looking at the stock driver and it’s not like the photos, it actually had a pair of R082 resistors on it. How odd. Maybe the manufacturer decided to alter them for a bit more power? IDK.
Anyway, I was robbed of an R100 resistor so I decided to pull an R082 off of it and add it to the Convoy driver. It was a pain working with something so tiny, but I had success. It works and no burnt smells. Yay!
I just bought a lux meter and measured the output from a ceiling bounce test. Turbo went up from 311 to 341 when measured at same voltage and after 30 seconds. I don’t know if that’s a big increase, but I can see less yellow around the hotspot. It definitely warms up quicker, but that’s not an issue for me as I use it for short bursts of 10 to 20 seconds mostly. Now to take it to work and use it normally for a week and see if I notice it’s brighter and if the batteries end up at about the same 3.6 to 3.8 volt range after the last day.
Apparently something that should be repeated…often.
Please don’t forget I started a modding thread dedicated to the L2 and L6 here.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t post this info here but my hope was that the L2/L6 modding thread would be the go-to place for L6 and L2 modding info…
Just saying…
It’s here if you want to use it.
:+1:
