Ok guys, I finished my first mod. With some tips from Djozz, the shopping list has been as follows:
- Wallbuys UF T20
- C8 brass pill from FT (and some silicone lube & thermal paste)
- Intl-outdoor: Noctigon XP20 MCPCB & CREE XP-G2 R5 3C LED and Qlite Rev.A 7135*8 3.04A driver
This week finally the FT package arrived, so I spend the evening modding this T20. Last month I've read many posts so I was well prepared :)
First step: chemical dedoming! I decided not to use gazoline but cellulose based thinner, learned from BLF member Toppel in this great post.
Within an hour, the dome fell off in pieces, as you can see in the pictures:
So, in my humble opinion thinner/cellulose is the way to go for dedoming, as it is clean and easy to use.
After dedoming I carefully installed & soldered the Led board and driver on the pill, and bridged the 4th star of the driver to ground for moonlight/low/mid/high switching options. Then I assembled the flashlight and hit the switch for some test shots.
Full zoomed in/out (mouseover):
My first impressions are mixed, see images below:
- it's a powerful light, though I can't really compare the original T6 with the XPG2 LED
- it gets quite hot after a few minutes on highest power
- no blinkies is nice. Don't know if moonlight setting is useful.
- the 'zoomed in' spot is not very consistent, it looks like a moon with darker areas. It's not a perfect circle and certainly not a sharp image of the Led dye like I can see with the SK68 clones.
- when zoomed in, there's a large 'ring' noticable. I don't like that.
- The light is quite yellow, compared to a SK68 Q5. Don't know if this is 'normal' or a result of the dedoming.
SPOT:
Annoying "ring":
SK68 clone vs UF T20 (dedomed XPG2)
