I am thinking of modding my Jacob A60, which driver is safe (max A) to replace the stock one with?
you can swap the wires about to give direct drive which is fun, and once you’ve done that you can use the stock driver as a contact board and fit a 2.4a ish nanjg for nice modes.
Sounds good. Any links to instructions?
How do you get it apart to work on it?
I didn't take it apart yet, but I see that there is a retaining ring, so I suppose getting to the driver should be straight forward... the thing I am wondering is if I can install a nanjg driver and if so, at what current...
Yes remove the retaining ring and you can get at the driver, yes there is space for a nanjg you want one at about 2.5a J)
There’s a lot of good reading here so I linked the whole thread, my direct drive instructions are towards the end. Once direct drive, unsolder the emitter wires, solder them to the pos and ground ring on the new driver, solder the driver wires to the emitter.
interesting….how much more lumens do you get on direct drive? can you noticable see a difference in brightness or throw? i think its pretty amazing and driven pretty high already stock…dont know how many amps but looks to be close to 4
mine arrived running at 1a, since I know they can take much more, I rectified the situation.
Dave-h has been running one I built for him as a gunlight since Christmas. He seems very pleased with it.
You can definitely see the difference in mine and dave is confident he can see a difference in his. lumens wise, who cares? you press the magic button, it throws light :bigsmile:
I've done several A60's using this driver, and adding 7135's: http://intl-outdoor.com/amc71353-5mode-circuit-board-nanjg-ak47c20-p-596.html
I’ll be using this one
http://intl-outdoor.com/amc71356-5mode-circuit-board-nanjg-105c-p-536.html
With one chip added as its what I have available. :bigsmile:
Jacob has a 17mm or 20mm driver? Is anyone selling 20mm drivers available at about 2A?
the jacobs is a 20mm driver, either use the existing driver or change it for a 20mm contact board with the 17mm driver in the cavity.
you could pot this to be sure but I think the cavity is anodised so shorting is highly unlikely.