Hi Guys,
Just wondering if anyone here has modded a TN30 and what you did?
I have modded my TN31 which was very simple. Just the standard de-dome, replace the resistors with solder, upgraded wires to 18AWG, polished the star and pill and used some AS5 then braided the springs.
Can I do the same sort of mods to a TN30 in particular the resistor mod? I am not sure how this all works with the triple emitter?
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers!
Yup, I have modded a TN30.
I’m not sure if you can bridge the resistors together, but the PCB layout is very similar to the TN31’s and there are two sense resistors you can access.
Make sure you provide good heatsinking between the PCB and the light!
So on my TN31 I pulled the two sense resistors off and just replaced them with a solder blob as from everything I read that’s what most people were doing to push it as hard as possible.
What mods did you perform ?
I did the quite opposite of what others have did and replaced the two resistors with two of a higher value to decrease the current.
Now it’s a laser. 
ahhhh I see. I have seen that thread before. Was extremely envious of that laser!
I assume if the emitters are in parallel i should be able to do the solder blob mod and each emitter will receive the same current?
The emitters aren’t in parallel but in series, so they will pass the same amount of current through them. (Unlike when in parallel.)
I haven’t read reports of anyone bridging resistors for TN30’s, so you may be the first!
Will it fry anything?
Possibly, not sure.
I’d say it’s about 30-40% likely that you will fry something, but the TN31 drivers have been very robust.
If I were you, I’d find some matching resistors so you can double the current.
haha I am not really liking those odds!
Hopefully someone has modded one but using it as a flashlight still and can give me a definitive answer