During my first modding attempts (here and here), I managed to damage the RGB AUX connector pads on a couple of Lume1 drivers - the R pad on one of them and both the R and B pads on another. I think I had my soldering iron set at too high a temperature and melted the adhesive that fixes the conductive pads to the board. I’ve learnt my lesson now.
I recently got hold of a copper FW3C and my original intention for this one was to mod the 1+7+FET driver to add single-colour AUX. However, instead of the 1+7+FET driver, I realised I could instead use one of the damaged lume1 drivers for the same purpose - providing single-colour AUX, but with a more efficient driver. I used a Lume RGB AUX board with only the green channel wired up and with the resistor shuffle to reduce the intensity of the green LED.
In order to have the proper Anduril 2 UI (without the menu options for cycling through the different RGB AUX colours), I had to build a custom Anduril 2 version for the lume1 driver - described here (scroll down for all of the changes needed).
Finally, all of the different parts were put together. While doing the driver swap, I also added 5000K dedomed 519As. Last of all, I replaced the light’s switch with one from an FW3X, since the original switch was quite mushy.
The result is an FW3C with 5000K dedomed 519As, a Lume1 driver, single-colour green AUX and a custom Anduril 2 UI for a single AUX colour. I’m pleased with this one…
