What did you mod today?

Besides your blue AUX, yours are much brighter than mine.

My greens are around 0.07mA at 4.1V. I only use green in my 14500 flashlights in order to maintain my 1+ year threshold that I have with lighted tailcaps.

Of course I only have 2 to 4 LEDs in my tailcaps vs 6+ with yours. And yours are more spread out vs in a smaller silicone boot.

BTW, nice job on your brass FW3A! :+1:

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Nah. The plan is to make entire flashlights. Iā€™ve got a few things cooking.

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I cut the corners on those gaskets so itā€™s just a square. They are slightly too small as is

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While waiting for Hank to make D1AA, thefreemanā€™s FWAA driver will do the thingā€¦
But in FW1AA running Nichia B35 will shine even more.
At the moment i just finished testing and tomorrow will be installed in FW1AA
For test purposes i used XHP50.3 :slight_smile:
More updates to follow




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90% finished FW1AA with thefreemanā€™s boost driver running Nichia B35 on Eneloop.
Waiting for aux board to install, wires are there already.





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Very impressive! I struggled to flow a single luxeon V onto a 3535 board, let alone 8!

I had to say it went surprisingly smoothly. I needed to fix 1 led that had rotated 90Ā°. After that no problems.

Here is todayā€™s mod: a single emitter reflector d4v2 (a d1v0?). Iā€™m sure Iā€™m not the first, and itā€™s only a proof of concept, but Iā€™m pretty pleased with the result. I might try my hand at brazing to make a bezel thatā€™s not reliant on sellotape!




The clear bezel does mean you can see the light that spills through the LED centering ring though, which is kind of cool.

If anyone (near the UK?) happens to have a spare stainless steel d4v2 bezel they wouldnā€™t mind parting with, Iā€™d love to buy it off you for a few quid to braze something a bit more permanent.

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Beam looks great!

That is what we needed from the start. Great job!

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Awesome! Iā€™ve thought about doing something similar with two SS bezels but havenā€™t gotten to it yet.

Was the driver glued?

The driver was lightly glued in, yes. Not too hard to push out from the other side.

Iā€™ve noticed that there is a standard plumbing pipe fitting with the same inner diameter as the outer diameter of the bezels (28mm), so two SS bezels could be brazed together using this. Itā€™s not an ideal solution but I canā€™t think of an easier way of getting a longer bezel with both the threaded bottom section & the lip at the top to hold the glass.

Sadly I donā€™t have the tools to machine such a part out of one piece of metal, but if I like this one I may investigate getting some made.

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This may be easier said than done, but my plan was to stack the two bezels, heat the joint from the outside with a torch, and use silver solder applied to the inside of the joint to braze them. Then Iā€™d grind away the face of the lower bezel with a die grinder. I havenā€™t done a lot of brazing but I think it should work with just the bezels and no inner piece.

Iā€™m still undecided on the exact mod idea. I want to keep the aux so Iā€™ll use a TIR. The aux board wouldnā€™t work so Iā€™d reflox some rgb aux on two side-by-side strips of 0603 LED strip and make a flexible aux ring. Then I started thinking about how to use a dual channel D4V2 with a center single TIR for throw and a ring of CSP LEDs for a flood channelā€¦ maybe getting a little too ambitious.

That sounds very cool if you can pull it off. I think your idea for stacking & brazing bezels would work; the single TIRs arenā€™t that tall.

Silver solder paste maybe? Good luck. Iā€™d be buying 10 bezels if I was going to give that a try lol. Iā€™d definitely ruin a bunch of them.

I think Iā€™d probably try and make a whole new out of one piece of steel pipe or something if I was going to do it. But idk

Iā€™ll try it sometime and report back. I have the tools and supplies. Too many competing projects though.

Iā€™ve had success using plumbing fittings/pipe, and a thread tap to make smaller bezels, e.g. for the TS10.

Someday Iā€™ll own a mini metal lathe and make all the bezels I could ever want.

What about a copper bezel? Easy to work with and bezel-sized copper pipe is plentiful

Make the lathe happen! One can never have too many tools.

Hereā€™s the next iteration of the d1v0:


I wanted to braze it but I went with jb weld (the thinking manā€™s brazing) instead as its what I had to hand. The copper section is a cut down 28mm end feed plumbing fitting, which happens to be exactly the right inner diameter. It has an inner lip that the SS outer bezel is pushed up against to square it, and the aluminium bezel is at the bottom threading on to the head of the light.

Its surprisingly light; I expected the copper to add much more weight but its not really noticeable at all.

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Very niceā€¦ Hey, wait a second!..

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I will see you in court! :sweat_smile:

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