Hi,
I didn’t strip the components, but just cut the four pins on the header.
Having said that, when I get a new light, I don’t think I’ve yet bought a light with the thought of modding it from the beginning.
I normally like to check it out first, to see how it works, etc., which is what I did when I got the STL-V6 from Wallbuys, and then I couldn’t figure out how to get the modes working, which is why I started this thread.
If you seen some of my posts on other threads (e.g., on garrybunk’s DST thread), I don’t particularly like what I think of as “long” lights, so while I was waiting for the STL-V6 to arrive, I’d seen some references to making the STL-V6 a “shorty”, and I got interested in a “shorty STL-V6”. Then, when this thread got to a “good point”, for me, at least, I started a new thread last night, How "Shorty" STL-V6?, asking about how to make a “shorty STL-V6”.
Note that it wasn’t/isn’t my intention to cross-post. I really thought, and still think, the two threads were separate topic-wise.
Anyway, the reason I’m saying all of this is that there’s some information in that other thread, esp. the post from Gords with the pics of his STL-V6, that clarify how different the STL-V6 that I got from Wallbuys is from “other” STL-V6s.
Again, I’m not intending to cross-post, but I thought that if, in the future, anyone ever is trying to find info about why their “STL-V6” works differently from what they thought it should, providing a link to that other thread here might be helpful.
Sorry :(…
Jim