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If someone wants to fit a lot of 7135’s I’d recommend sanding the 22mm 16x 7135 driver down to fit rather than trying to fab smaller boards based on that layout. You definitely want to retain as much GND ring as possible. According to the dimensions posted in the OP only 0.5mm needs to be removed from the diameter. The less removed the better. I can’t tell from the posted pictures whether the driver will be too thick. (I think it will be fine.) Remember that my driver is setup to clear the ledge on the top and have the retention ring sit on top of the 7135’s on the bottom - that makes it ~3.2mm thick from ledge to ring.
Hi!
I bought this from BG - The look is awesome, nice tight spot and not too blueish color. Original driver goes up to 8W.
Spare O-Ring, lubed threads - but the two head-parts are glued together. I heatet them up but I didn’t get them in two pieces.
I put a MT-G2 in it today - PERFECT SPOT, medium spill.
Really, really good, I love that. I orderes some SMD zeners and resistors for the 105C mod.
I am so excited about that light 
Too bad, that the pill is hard to twist - even with clean and heat transfer paste. But you don’t need to twist that every day, so…
You have to twist (I know, that “twist” is not the correct word here, but I have no more correct one :P) the pill a bit outside into the reflector - but that’s even in original state the same, so it should be no problem.
I will order another host from the convoy guy - hopefully without any glue.
If you want an easy MT-G2 mod host - here you go.
So are you driving the MT-G2 with the stock driver? If not, did you try the stock driver? I've been keeping the idea in the back of my mind to buy an inexpensive MT-G2 host. I've been considering the Yezl Y3 and like the 26650 ability.
-Garry
I like the Yezl more - because of the thicker battery tube.
With extension tube, this light rocks.
But the momentary switch… I think, the momentary driver + zener mod from RMM should work.
To the LS-01: No, I’m using a Nanjg driver with zener mod. Works flawlessly. But you need a adapter board (21.5mm or so).
I bought the whole flashlight and just cleaned up the original driver board.
I haven’t tried to drive it with the stock driver.
Thanks. Think I'll stick with the Yezl Y3 idea.
-Garry
Nice host Simon. To be clear, you accept PayPal directly for a light? I’d like one at $18.63 as stated in the OP. Thanks.
I am too in the phase of finding hosts with easy / straight conversions to MTG2.
I chose to try this flashlight from BG because it is a complete flashlight (driver + emitter) with just a few dollars more, thinking that the stock driver might be handy.
Because this flashlight is meant to run on 18650x2 batteries on series, most probably it has buck driver, which based on my experience, should be able to handle MT-G2 with no problem. The only issue with stock driver is the ampere can be a bit limited, might be enough to drive well XM-L (for which the driver is originally designed), but not enough for MT-G2 (unless the driver responds well to resistor mod).
So, a few days ago, EMS delivered the flashlight and I started working on it. Until now, what I did is just swapped emitter to MT-G2 on copper board, while keeping the driver stock. And to answer the question, yes, it can drive MT-G2, the max tail current that I can get with two protected NCR18650 is 2A, judging by the brightness, I think it is not too bad.
Somebody says to fully tap the potential of MT-G2, it has to be driven beyond 5A. Hm… I think it is time to find those tiny resistors… or even FETs…
dnky, what does the mth beam profile look like in this light?
I don’t know if this is what you are looking for (distance is about 2 meter).
It has quite a well defined hot spot, which is a good sign that the reflector is suitable for the emitter?
I find out that, even driven at comparatively marginal current of 2A, for normal use, it is bright enough for me, even comparing to my other MT-G2 flashlights driven at higher current (eg: 4A) which have larger bright spots.
Emitter in the reflector (distance is roughly 20 cm), the emitter is reflected all over the reflector (which is another good sign?)
That’s pretty nice:) Thanks for the pic! Are the tiles white? What’s your other MTG light? PM me if that’s ok. Don’t want to pollute Simon’s thread with OT chat.
The tiles are light brown.
I left a new post in a more related thread, listing my other MT-G2 lights.
Btw, if it is anything useful to someone, here is how it looks like, under the reflector.
To deal with the clearance issue under the reflector,
I use some copper sheets and Kapton tape.
yes ,accept
Is this out of stock, or just dis-continued? Looks like only 2 sold - sorry, wish it could have sold better...
completer Flashlight - BUT: Glued together the part where the pill screws in and the head.
Haven’t got it apart, even with heat.
I got the BG one - working on it now with a XHP-70, 22mm DD+1 wight driver, zener mod. Pill came out with no problem - don't think there was glue at all. Having problems with the firmware right now
The Pill comes out easily - But the Head is in fact 2 parts - screwed and glued together ( at least in mine light).
Page one, picture 2 from up - I can’t get the head apart like that.
Ahh, ok - but it's not a factor in modding the light, I don't think? Don't think mine will break there either, but didn't try hard. I've seen lots of lights that appear to have break-points in the same general area, but never have been able to get them apart there as well. Sometimes in the pill-less designs, if you could get it apart there it would give you access to the pill cavity in order to add some heat sinking. I always thought those break-points are press fit glued, and not threaded, but from the pics, this one is definitely threaded with an o-ring.
Think the BG Rocher and Simon's host here are identical, but less risk with Simon's, and he either seems to verify the quality before shipping, or gets them from a more reliable source. He probably didn't stock these, or only had a couple to see if they would sell, and apparently didn't.
In that same vane, I was wondering if prepaid VISA would work on AliExpress.
Worked for me.