Hum, you’ll need to mod it hard to get that metal button work! The Desert tan, Blue, Green, Red and Silver versions are the ones with metal button, so it is easy to change it. But not with the other hosts…
Maybe someone can help you on this! As I mentioned, I guess Jerommel has done it, so maybe you can ask him. Don’t know how much work you’ll need though :zipper_mouth_face:
I’ve recently purchase 2 triple LED mcpcp together with S2+ hosts,a 17mm Dr Jones Fet driver,triple optics and Hoop’s beautiful copper pills.
This was my 1st triple attempt.
After assembly today the triple XPL Hi worked like a charm but the triple XP-G3 did not.I only got a 2 LEDs to light.On disassembly and under magnification I spotted that the dome was missing on one of the LEDs.I found it in the small zip bag it shiped in.The squre base is still attached to the mcpcb and only the yellw domed part fell off.
My question to you is can the dome part be reflowed onto the part of the LED still attached to the mcpcb or is a whole new LED required.
I reached out to the seller but was of no help with fixing.The seller was only interested in blaming me for the dome falling off.I didn’t ask for replacement,only help in fixing.
Below is the triple XPG3 LED MCPCB from website.
It’s the round part sitting on the square part that fell off.
So is the LED fixable or does it need replacement?
As an aside I’m 76 with less than 20/20 eyesight but close to 100% otherwise
I’m not aware of any way to re-attach a dome to an LED. But even if you could, the LED would still not work. It seems somehow the dome got pulled off and when it did, the LED wires got detached and that’s the reason why it’s not working. A new LED will need to be reflowed onto the MCPCB.
Yeah,I figured it was not repairable.Thanks for the reply.
My guess is it didn't get fully attached in manufacturing and the slightest jar in shipping had it come off.
I received a Sofirn SF11 from Amazon with the LED lose in the reflector but it was easy to reflow that one.
Maybe my wording was bad.The LED wires were OK.I removed the wires from the MCPCB because the driver came wire wires attached and it seemed much easier to use the 2 driver wires than the 2 MCPCB.wires.
I'll just order another XP-G3 LED.
The S2+ with a triple XPL Hi gets quite hot in a few minutes that I can only hold it with 2 fingers on the tail cap.It was a lot of fun building it in a red host.
https://flashlightwiki.com/Cree
Scroll down a little and you can see the bonding wires embedded in the silicone dome.
Those are the wires that have probably came off with the dome.
Unfortunately the JAXMAN E2L host is no longer available: JAXMAN E2L HOST. I have 2 of them and they certainly are great triple hosts/flashlights. They are a little harder to assemble vs the S2+ though due to the LED shelf, but it seems the shelf is better at heat dissipation. The E2L is also a little shorter than the S2+ and has a stainless steel bezel like the Convoy S3.
After assembling the parts in the host and feeling proud of my work I fully pressed the tail switch and to my unhappy surprize the light failed to turn on.After a few more clicks full and half still the light failed to go on. At this point I disassembled the light and carefully reassembled again>still not working.Once more I took it apart and put it back together with the same non functioning result. Now I sat in the chair collecting my thoughts of why Murphy's Law happened. After about 10 minutes of thought and frustration I took on of my other successfully built red S2+ out of the drawer and removed the tail cap.I put the red tail cap on the blue body and gave the switch a full press.The light came on and switch modes with half presses as it should.Hallelujah! Now I took the blue tail cap that didn't work on the blue body and put it on the red body....it worked. I took both tail caps apart and switch the switches from the blue to red and red to blue and now both lights work perfectly
Nah. G3s are flip-chips, no bond wires up-top, so they’re easy to dedome without killing the wires, but you have to watch out you don’t peel off the phosphor layer.
They’ve also got hideous angular tint-shift and will look like crap behind reflectors and even some TIRs.