(That said)
I bought a $4.99 SK98 light off eBay. It had the same basic driver/emitter combination that yours had. I then installed the $5 KD driver and a $5 XP-G2 on Noctigon making the light much nicer. The $5 light is now a $15 light, but I think the final product was worth the total investment.
Also, that XP-G2 I linked to is NOT a high-CRI emitter. It’s a very cool white tint, but is likely to be a much better tint than your LatticeBright though…
If I can make something nice and useful from this junk for a couple of dollars that will be fun and very satisfying ...and will also live up to the spirit of the forum
I did one of these a while back. Ended up giving it to a buddy in need of a light. Dome on warmish xml2 this thing straight up destroys my SRT7 Nitecore.
Modded my $9 Ultrafire XML-T6 with the emitter and driver from fasttech that keltex78 recommended in post #14.
Thanks keltex78. :+1:
Good tint, nice and bright, ideal for here at work. But it began flickering almost immediately. Bad neg path from driver to pill. I just could not get solder to stick well to the aluminum pill. Finally found some tiny brass screws here in the electric shop. Size 0-80. With appropriate drill bit (#56) and tap I put a brass screw right on the juction of driver and pill. Boy the solder loved that brass screw. She flickers no more. Just bypassed the spring tonite and its looking good. Got about 14 bucks into this light and its the best work light I’ve had.(really dirty conditions in the pressroom here so I don’t spend too much on work lights as bad things tend to happen to them)
I wondered where this build had ended up, thanks for letting us know! Yeah, soldering to aluminum, not so good… Cool work with the ultra-small brass screw though. Those pills usually rely on the contact from the press-fit driver, and as you’ve discovered, that can be most problematic.
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