What did you mod today?

Cold toluene dedoming of a Luxeon V (15 minutes)

Dedomed Luxeon V on 20mm Noctigon in (un)LuckySun D80 with bypassed springs and BLF-A6 driver (1740 lumen OTF at 30 seconds):

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Very unusual beam. But I like it :+1:

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DJozz, it seems that there’s some phosphor missing in the corners of the emmitter substrate.
I think you’ll throw tons of UV with this one

The led under the phosfor layer does not emit UV, just blue (peak 450nm), it is the same blue peak present in undamaged leds but perhaps a bit higher here :-).

Blue LEDs show great fluorescence on GITD stuffs :wink:

Nice “Spiegelei”-Spot.

Best spiegelei ever!
Lots of light but even in actual use outside the bright yellow hotspot is distracting :slight_smile:

Flashlight porn… The MT-G2 is still may favorite LED. Got one in my ZY-T08 too :slight_smile:

Nice work with the little light/big LED CRX, love it! I’ve done chopped AA MiniMag’s with the big emitter and 2 14250’s and just loved the look. I think I had 11 or 12 MT-G2 lights at one time, need to revisit that as I have several loose emitters… unfortunately I just shoved the entire modding kit into a box and closeted it away for the Christmas holiday, family coming over and all that. No modding for me for the next week, might not survive…

Nice Black Bay you got there.

After hours of sanding, chopping, and trying to center the emitter she’s finally alive! Modded an ml25lt with an osram flat black, an old style c8 reflector I got from ebay ( not very good quality so ordered again from fasttech), a chopped tube, a modified pill with a mtn 17ddm Fet driver, and a forward tail clicky to run through the modes. It runs on a 26350,which was originally supposed to run a 26650 but messed up on my measurements. But love the way it turned out. I also modded a mini c8 with the osram just for s&g and was pleasently surprised by it. The c8 mini can run either an 18350 or 18650 but I like the way it looks with the 18350 tube ha. Both throw very well for what they are and are decently bright. I do not have any tools to measure candela or lux so I unfortunately do not have any stats on them. But compared them both with my convoy c8 xpl hi with fet and both out throw the c8 (at least to my eyes)I added a pic of them with a c8 just for size comparisons.



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Made lighted tailcap for an Eagle eye X2R. Used stock switch board because it has pads for leds and resistors. And a convoy clear washer grinded down to fit diameter. I used one pink and one blue led under the stock spare green rubber cap. The driver needed an 560 Ohm bleeder resistor to keep mode memory. Without bleeder it was worked as next mode memory. The blue led got 47K resistor and the pink got 2x10K stacked parallel.

Looks nice under the green Zozz.
Thanks for listing the resistor info too.
I have another X2R on the way, great to hear they are using boards with pads for DIY lighted SW.

They use white plastic washer on top of the switch. The light can go through it but dimmer then convoy clear plastic washer.

I have found the white plastic is nice to diffuse (smooth) the spots made by the LEDs and works well on single color, 2X LED builds with white tailcaps.
You always make the nicest multi color blends.

I got a bunch of the Convoy lighted tails off ElfLand AliXp store when they became available. Too cheap to pass up and for the included parts they are good to have.

At attempt number three, the first attempt was half a year ago, the bezel of my EC21 finally surrendered! The head clamped firmly into a vice, stoked up incredibly hot with a blowtorch, tightly wrapped in a strip of inner tire and giving it all the strength of my hands, it finally gave in.

Red loctite :rage:

Jos , when your hands recover , my mh20 waits to be opened :stuck_out_tongue:

Haha , tried twice already , maybe i should try a third time too , for now i’m trying not to damage the light …

Djozz,

Free commercial to loctite :+1: