Changing the LED in the MT09R changes this flashlight a lot. My two friends did the same but on 4000K 90 CRI. In my opinion, 70 CRI is a better choice because it has more power and it is a very large and heavy flashlight. Great performance, but it’s big and heavy
Do you mean that you connected the D4v2 driver to it and the old one is used as a stand? lol
When Pioneman worked with Simon, he had good controllers and spare parts. Later they changed the UI and stabilization. I have a few with 6V LEDs after that change and it’s a disaster. This behavior seems to be for every mode (I tested Turbo, High, Medium2). It does not make sense. WTF?!
I have an MF01 Mini, so same on SST20 4000K. The flashlight has very poor performance even after raising the limit. Do you think this can be improved somehow? Will another driver fit?
No, I connected the gates of the 4 large FETs on the original driver to the gate on the Anduril driver, so that the “high power” current path was still the same, but it now had a low-powered linear current path for low modes, as well as desoldering everything else that’s not absolutely necessary.
To do that you need to connect 4 wires to the piggyback (batt+, batt-, led-, FET gate) as well as moving the switch over. Make sure to desolder the spring, as well as covering the piggyback with kapton tape to prevent shorts.
It’s funny because I have a corrected version that came with this disc from the factory. The problem is that they didn’t use any paste or isolating sticker, so it was as if it didn’t exist.
Thanks for reminding about this. A friend of mine had the same thing.
Swapped a 3000k SFT-40 in my TS11! Was too scared at first due to the complexity of the Mcpcb but dove right in.
And it’s beautiful. In comparison, my TD01C.
And solder the wires before the PCB is screwed in. Once the PCB forms thermal contact with the head, getting clean joints takes a ton of heat. It is a lot easier if it is not touching yet.
Removed XH-P 50.3 3V with unattractive beam from a WT D80v.2 and replaced it with an SFN40. Cheap battery provides ~6A, a Molicel P26A made it up to 9-10A and a 30Q was peaking over 12A and no angry blue.
This could be my first foray into a host oven bake. At least for the extension. As far as I can tell with others, the color should almost match the C8+ color. Does anyone have ideas to share about that?
In talking with Simon, there isn’t a matching extension for the C8+. I almost bought the older host just to have it all matching but I’m fortunate enough to have too many hosts.
I Hope this thread ain’t flashlight modding only, but I modded my bike today. It even has (modded) LED headlights (4000lm low beam, 4000lm high beam). I wonder which LEDs sit in there, seems to be single emitters for both. That’s a lot of light at 4500K. No doubt low CRI, but I did not measure yet ^^ Today it was not about those though, those have been on for over a year.
Since I’m not particularly tall (1,75m) and the KTM 690 2019+ is one of the tallest bikes around I struggled getting my feet on the ground. Lowered it by ~2-2.5cm today by replacing a part of the rear suspension. Now it looks like a Dachshund, but it’s a whole lot easier for me to get my feet on the ground in tricky situations.
Nah, this is a fairly well known kit made specifically for the bike. The manufacturer claims that as long as you lower the fork by ~20mm together with the kit on the rear spring, it won’t change the behavior of the suspension much. It gets a bit softer in the rear (in fact I’ll have to add some more tension to the spring), but no other adverse effects.
People who used it in various forums seem to agree.
Wouldn’t have done it otherwise. I’ll test and see how it behaves now. Worst case it’ll take me ~2 hours to get the bike back to stock - I only have to swap the lever back to the OG one.
Lovely bike you have there, if I were to get another it would be a KTM, always loved them had several moto x bikes.
A near death experience on a super motard scared me so much (it was literally life changing) I sold my bike the next week, when you have an experience like that it puts things into perspective , family, kids etc. I wasn’t hurt at all, but 2cm to the right and I’d have been dead or crippled for life, was entirely my fault trying to keep up with my mates on their superbikes…I forgot super motards don’t corner as well!
I just got some of those Fireflies 5050 “rosy” 3500k round die emitters and I’m trying them out.
Here’s a before/after in a Sofirn C8G (medium mode, cellphone pic with 5000k WB). SST40 in the first pic.
I’m not sure what I think of these LEDs. I can’t measure it, but I think they get noticeably cooler and greener at higher currents. I don’t know if it’s just pronounced tint shift or overcurrent. I guess I’ll see if I kill any of them.
I’ll try out some other hosts as well. I did try in an SC31 Pro but that SMO reflector is horribly ringy and the two TIRs I could find (narrow spot, and pebbled) didn’t look great either.
