Early on in my flashlight adventure, I got a couple of J5 Tactical V1-Pros. At least I think that’s the right model. Paid 2 bucks a piece for them during some kind of promotion. Since then, of course, I’ve learned a lot and these lights are getting no love. So I’m wondering if there is a good way to mod them.
Here’s what I’m thinking - they are little zoomies like the sk68, but the low is a little too low, the high is no where near the 350 lumens advertised, and I HATE having to click through strobe to use this thing.
I pulled the pill and it appears to be self contained, but what do I know?
Frankly, I’d be happy with some decently bright single mode light or a three way without strobe. And I’ll probably need to replace the cheesy tail button too.
Just search for sk68 mod threads.
It comes apart easy. Pull the plastic washer off the led. Unsolder the led. Pop the the driver out. Put new parts in. Now you have a more better sk.
I was hoping that they were similar enough to be able to apply some of the same mods as the SK68’s, but I wasn’t sure.
I realized a very strange thing recently - I don’t mind having torches that I “would” use sitting around waiting for me to use them, but I have a problem with torches in the drawer because I probably won’t use them.
I’ve spent a good portion of the last couple days reading through the SK68 mod threads and there seems to be this trend of either replace the led or replace the driver, depending on what you’re after.
What I’m after, preferably, is to get the most light out the front - I’m good with a single mode (or multi-mode without blinky modes) with a standard AA battery (I won’t put a 14500 in this one unless I find some extras cheap) and without de-doming the led.
But I don’t know what kind of LED this is other than it’s a “J5 LED” and I already know that I don’t like this driver because it’s high, low, and strobe - and I don’t want strobe.
Tail current is:
.28A on low
.48A on strobe
.82A on high
