In the name of breaking things better left alone… I would like to MOD out rhis COB LED worklight.
As it stands now it is plenty bright, versatile, runs on standard batts, and reliable.
But…
I WANT MOAR…
SO…
Firstly. I would like to parrallel 6 AAA sized lithium batts, what is the highest capacity available? I dont want or need them to be 1.5V such inferior voltages have no place in my superior 3.7V world…
Secondly, I wish to integrate a charging system and USBC port.. this should not be a huge issue to acquire as these circuit boards are readily available everywhere. However I hear lithium cells hate being out of balance. So how would I go about properly charging 6 parallel lithium cells? Would this configuration prevent hot swapping? The battery compartments are the easy open type so it would be nice to be able to swap batts when one set dies. I suppose an alternative solution if hot swappablility is too complicated to implement is to make the USB input capable of “feed through powering”. And essentially turn it into a hybrid wired/wireless work light.
Lastly, is it usually possible just to heat sink and over clock COB LEDs to the sky? The current COBs are rectangular with 16 chips. I have not taken the unit apart to see what voltage they are yet. I am hoping they are 3V so that I can avoid the inefficiencies of boost converting. If they aren’t hopefully there is 3V versions available. It seems like a common size I have seen in many lights.
I have not taken apart the unit yet but I will later on and post pics. I am throwing message up now to see your opinions/ideas/experience with messing with such lights. I assume atleast one person got bored and messed with something like this.
