group buy interest thread for modded C8 XM-L2 with BLF logo Going with Fast Tech and starting a new thread.

18sixfifty · February 20, 2014, 3:32am

Sounds cool. I’m doing a maglite right now as well. Just waiting on parts.

kavawava · February 20, 2014, 4:18am

Yeah I’d be in definitely for 1, possibly two.

Tom_E · February 20, 2014, 4:22am

Got everything in for Tivo's driver, built one board up by hand soldering (really nice 2 FET's and 4 7135 380's), installed the software, rigged up the USB dongle and ribbon cable -- all good but.... The IDE is crying bout some USB dongle S/N missing... Dead in the water - no info anywhere yet that I can find - might hit google....

18sixfifty · February 20, 2014, 4:38am

Good luck and please keep me posted. It sounds like it should be a great driver.

jamjar · February 20, 2014, 7:55am

Hi

Thanks for your effort in doing this, I would take 2 at least

djozz · February 20, 2014, 8:06am

A C12 with a BLF-logo would be very nice.

Can you perhaps talk them into shipping to two adresses? One in the US and one in a country with cheap shipping rates for resending to the rest of the world? (in my mind comes Hikelite again, in Romania, if he is willing to do that , or one of the Singapore based members?)

EDIT: thinking of that, packing and resending more than 50 flashlights must be at least a full days job....

unknown00101 · February 20, 2014, 8:06am

Depending on how it all goes I think I would also be interested in a C12 instead of the C8 since I already have a few C8s and am lacking in the C12 department.

18sixfifty · February 20, 2014, 11:48am

djozz:

18sixfifty:

I’m still waiting on responses from dealers. Fast Tech is getting me some quotes as well as others. First guy hasn’t gotten back to me after I asked for a picture of the reflector. He said it was smooth aluminum. So I asked him if he was sure it wasn’t plastic coated in aluminum. Now no response. I have another dealer that is willing to customize the driver. Five modes no blinkies. High, Medium, Low, lower and moonlight. This is on a C12 XM-L2 but they have a minimum 100 order. I’m trying to talk them down to $10. They take paypal but will only ship to one address. They do laser etching themselves.

A C12 with a BLF-logo would be very nice.

Can you perhaps talk them into shipping to two adresses? One in the US and one in a country with cheap shipping rates for resending to the rest of the world? (in my mind comes Hikelite again, in Romania, if he is willing to do that , or one of the Singapore based members?)

EDIT: thinking of that, packing and resending more than 50 flashlights must be at least a full days job….

That is actually a very good idea as long as someone is willing to help out.

Ricflair · February 20, 2014, 12:09pm

I second the idea of the 5 modes. I would get 2 of these. My daughter likes the moonlight mode for her bedside stand. I know some folks think the multi modes are goofy, but I actually like them. So anyways, if you go that way, mark the Nature Boy Ric Flair cause I need 5 modes whilst I am a limo-ridin’, jet-flyin’, kiss stealin’, wheelin’ dealin’, son-of-a-gun (who kissed ALL the girls worldwide and made em cry! WHOOOOOO!!!

18sixfifty · February 20, 2014, 12:14pm

Ricflair:

18sixfifty:

I’m still waiting on responses from dealers. Fast Tech is getting me some quotes as well as others.

First guy hasn’t gotten back to me after I asked for a picture of the reflector. He said it was smooth aluminum. So I asked him if he was sure it wasn’t plastic coated in aluminum. Now no response.

I have another dealer that is willing to customize the driver. Five modes no blinkies. High, Medium, Low, lower and moonlight. This is on a C12 XM-L2 but they have a minimum 100 order. I’m trying to talk them down to $10. They take paypal but will only ship to one address. They do laser etching themselves.

I second the idea of the 5 modes. I would get 2 of these. My daughter likes the moonlight mode for her bedside stand. I know some folks think the multi modes are goofy, but I actually like them. So anyways, if you go that way, mark the Nature Boy Ric Flair cause I need 5 modes whilst I am a limo-ridin’, jet-flyin’, kiss stealin’, wheelin’ dealin’, son-of-a-gun (who kissed ALL the girls worldwide and made em cry! WHOOOOOO!!!!

Stylin n’ profilin

MountainKing · February 20, 2014, 12:18pm

This thread will be closed if it goes OT.

Norm

djozz · February 20, 2014, 12:31pm

oh no! How did he get here? Run!!!

(actually, I find Norm is one of the more ok mods there)

Tom_E · February 20, 2014, 1:29pm

I will dye my hair blonde and wear pink underwear if it helps getting this driver working... Actually tivo532 has been a big help til 1AM this morn. Got past the S/N problem - think'n I must have done something wrong - did confirm getting 3.3v to the MCU, but the USB dongle is still not recognizing the presence of the MCU. Between hand soldering all parts on the board, modding the USB dongle (wired in a jumper), building the ribbon cable mod - all untested and all must work perfectly... Gotta be me.

djozz · February 20, 2014, 2:46pm

nice to have a 'sub-story' going on in this thread :-) , like the adventures of Snowy in the Tintin books.

Tom_E · February 20, 2014, 3:19pm

Sorry, just 18sixfifty, who's thread this is, is showing interest. Would be cool to have a custom BLF'ers driver involved in this modded, BLF logo light offer. Should re-direct him to the other thread on the driver here: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/24593

18sixfifty · February 20, 2014, 3:30pm

Yep it would be very cool and if we could get this driver into a production run for this light it would be awesome.

Ejected_Filament · February 20, 2014, 3:37pm

More BLF in the light? Can only be a good thing.

djozz · February 20, 2014, 6:33pm

Really , a C12 with this driver!

jacktheclipper · February 20, 2014, 6:58pm

Pics or it never happ- ... uh , never mind .

Tom_E · February 20, 2014, 7:29pm

Yep, good idea!