FW3A, a TLF/BLF EDC flashlight - SST-20 available, coupon codes public

[id30209]

Soooo….anyone ordered new titanium with BLF code?

[teacher]

@GroovyBro

It wasn’t for very long but I had no clue that you weren’t supposed to fire it up without the front on. Hellova floody beam though. Was almost 180 degrees across. How does the optic transfer heat to the body though? To me it just looks like a ring of aluminum, a circle of glass and a plastic optic. I always thought the heat transferred to the little copper disk that the LEDs are mounted on.

Edit: oh I see it has to be pressed up against something and that’s what the optic+bezel do.

light seems ok though and none of the LED’s look smoky or anything.
think I fried something?

Good, you may have dodged the bullet then. Put it on super low, or a level you can look at directly; & see if any of the LED’s appear off color while on.

Hopefully, you lucked out.

[Nev]

@id30209

Soooo….anyone ordered new titanium with BLF code?

No.

[GroovyBro]

@teacher

Even though it might well be toooooo late. :cry: :cry:

uh oh what’s too late? What irreversible damage have I cursed upon my favourite flashlight?

[Nev]

It’ll be fine

[teacher]

@GroovyBro

@teacher

Even though it might well be toooooo late. :cry: :cry:

uh oh what’s too late? What irreversible damage have I cursed upon my favourite flashlight?

Maybe nothing if you did not fry/burnout/screw up any of your LED’s.

CHECK THIS POST & VIDEO OUT to see what happened when someone else did what you did. (sorry Nev, but I had to share you "taking one for the team") … .

[Nev]

Lol,
No worries,go for it
Justa heads up though, mine was smoking before I took thebezel off
It was also in candle mode.

[teacher]

. Thanks mate… …

[raccoon]

Nev, you've been a member for over two years, you have almost a thousand posts, and you have no idea that swearing isn't allowed on BLF?

I'm not buying it.

[teacher]

@teacher

Put it on super low, or a level you can look at directly; & see if any of the LED’s appear black, dark, or off color while on.

Hopefully, you lucked out.

Hey GroovyBro, have you done this yet??

Inquiring minds want to know if you killed off any of your LED’s during your unplanned science expeeiment/torture test.

What up??

[GroovyBro]

holy smokes that’s a lot of smoke! I don’t think I got anywhere near that amount. I had mine on like that for a similar (or slightly shorter) amount of time but I didn’t experience it frying itself like that.
Here’s a photo I took on moonlight mode. It looks alright to me but one diode looks ever so slightly rosier than the rest. Surprisingly that wasn’t the one that got kinda smoky so I guess they just came from factory like that. I never really looked into the diodes like that before so I have no reference point. Anyways, nothing I can really do I guess. Seems like I got lucky though.

edit: none of the leds and the colour still looks about the same. I may have dodged a bullet here

[cabfrank]

Boys, please.

[Nev]

@GroovyBro

holy smokes that’s a lot of smoke! I don’t think I got anywhere near that amount. I had mine on like that for a similar (or slightly shorter) amount of time but I didn’t experience it frying itself like that.
Here’s a photo I took on moonlight mode. It looks alright to me but one diode looks ever so slightly rosier than the rest. Surprisingly that wasn’t the one that got kinda smoky so I guess they just came from factory like that. I never really looked into the diodes like that before so I have no reference point. Anyways, nothing I can really do I guess. Seems like I got lucky though.

I can’t see your picture.
But I can see it in the link in the quote.

[GroovyBro]

It appears that I have fixed the problem
please let me know if it’s only fixed on my end and I’m still an idiot

[Nev]

Yeh it’s fixed & I can confirm that you are indeed an idiot
The image might be a bit big for som though
Don’t worry though because they will tell you

[GroovyBro]

still an idiot so I guess I got that going for me
fixed the size

now its small

[teacher]

Yeah, it is fixed now for me. Good picture too.

I am no expert… but it looks like you did not make complete crispy critters out of any of your LED’s.

I do see some dark areas on them all…. BUT, that may just be on the optic or dirty LED’s.

You can clean the LED’s & MCPCB with a Q-tip & alcohol if you wish.
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Have you got a pic of yours Nev? So we could compare.

[GroovyBro]

it appears that my unexpected science experiment yielded no permanent damage. I’m still kinda spooked though regardless

edit: for science purposes, let it be known that I have an SST20 model.
it’s very rosy on turbo without an optic/glass

edit 2: moonlight and peak output look to remain unchanged to my eyes. Of course, I don’t have fancy (non-eyeballs) equipment so I wouldn’t even know if I lost any output.
colour looks about fine as well

[Nev]

@teacher

Yeah, it is fixed now for me. Good picture too.

I am no expert… but it looks like you did not make complete crispy critters out of any of your LED’s. :+1:

I do see some dark areas on them all…. BUT, that may just be on the optic or dirty LED’s.

You can clean the LED’s & MCPCB with a Q-tip & alcohol if you wish.
.

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Have you got a pic of yours Nev? So we could compare.

Yes
But I can’t get in the photo bucket thingy , I can post them on email, I had one wonky dodgy curflicked led , (sorry mustn’t swear ) it was also curflicked before I took the bezel off, I’m afraid to show it , I’m really scared of getting ridiculed.

[teacher]

@GroovyBro

it appears that my unexpected science experiment yielded no permanent damage. I’m still kinda spooked though regardless :weary:

edit: for science purposes, let it be known that I have an SST20 model.
it’s very rosy on turbo without an optic/glass

Note made & documented for scientific purposes…. :+1: .

Thank you for your contribution & Welcome to BLF!!