olight i6 paladin from wallbuys… FINALLY… great little light and for $20 its going in my edc laptop bag
uv ucl camera lens that i am going to butcher for a ucl for my defiant 3d
My old-school/thru-hole resistors came in today (finally, after almost 20 days) :)
Let my just plug in my soldering iron :D
A new light meter (HS1010A), a $5 18650 zoomie from eBay(says Q5, actually has a Chinese 1W LED on a super hollow pill 
), and my signed copy of ‘Wool’ by Hugh Howey (preordered back in the Fall). An awesome post-apoc read!
I got the 2 Cree house bulbs in 5000K Daylight White. They’re ok bright wise, but a little off in the color tint dept. Not surprising really, but disappointing all the same.
Oddly, the “glass” part isn’t glass although it shines like glass….it feels like a very grippy silicone! Instant surprise when you’re expecting glass. lol
I have received my second order from fasttech, this time ordered 3/2, shipped 3/6, received 3/14
12 days from order date. 2 days has been wasted by the post office, it was about 2-3km away to my address.
I have got 3 cree u2 2c emitters
3 drivers I have thought they should work with these emitters.
And one empty p60 dropin.
The drivers are specified as 10W, but current draw is less than 0.5A. Output voltage is exactly 3V.
So I tried to connect 3 emitters in series to a 12V 3.3A laptop power supply.
The light output is better than with the drivers
Unfortunately, that driver is for a 12V 10W module. It will not fully drive 3 XM-L emitters in series. Still, he current you measure is lower than I would expect.
Edit: what input voltage did you apply?
fasttech orders.
1 zy-t08 for a friend, needs pot mod
1 charger under test
4 sanyo 18650zt cells
2 xm-l t6 4c 20mm
1 xm-l t6 4c 16mm
one d4 host from cngq. this may end up an xp-g triple.
edit, rechecked zy-t08 on freshly charged cells (both 4.19v on $5 charger, it didn’t fail, screw you nitecore) 3.14a yehaw, no mods needed. 8)
Got a Sear’s 50 gal. gas water heater replacement under warranty today. BTW Sear’s charged me $80 to have a technician over to my house to verify that the tank was leaking. It was a 12 year tank that lasted 9.5 years. I could have sent Sear’s a picture of the mess I have to shopvac up and the sticker on the tank to them. The tech took some info from the sticker on the tank, serial #, make/model etc, called his home office. The tech said his office will call me back in 90 mins and there are 2 options. Sear’s will give me a quote to install the new water heater ($408) or pickup the water heater at Sear’s and install it yourself. I chose to pickup and install it myself. Sear’s will not take the old water heater to dispose of either. Homedepot takes your old water heater under warranty return/replacement.
Sear’s will not replace the tank under warranty if you don’t pay the $80 tech call.
That’s nice! I wonder why the difference. Care to open it up and check the resistors? Driver pops out easy.
I could do in the morning, but I’m dropping it off. its not too well regulated if current drops with voltage, but at least I can tell him to charge it up if it goes dim……
the cells, I need to try them out myself but I think I’m going to get more. I shouldn’t be charhing my two, see what the gave on a nanjg driver at 3.79v.
What an awesome 1911, I am jealous.
My buddy works over at the Sig custom shop if you decide you want a trigger job send me a PM and I can get you a discount. I had my uncles 220s trigger shortened and lightened for him and it was amazing what a difference it made on a gun I thought was perfect to begin with.
Received an Eneloop charger and some AA & AAA Eneloops today!
The first book in the series is available for free in the iBook store, for those wanting a taste.
Fasttech orders: Convoy C8 (excellent light, review here ), 67mm C-Pol filter for DSLR, 10 more Sanyo ZTs, and replacement O-Rings (missed in a previous order).
thanks, and i may need to do that. and im pretty sure im going to be getting the fixed tritium night sights on it but not sure yet. ill wait to see how i like the adjustable sights on it though
always wanted a higher end 1911, and figured theres a good chance its now or never. hes got it in his shop now. its used, but he guaranteed me it looks like its brand new. we shall see.
that and it will still be a little while longer before i get it paid off. got to love layaway. $100-150 a week. i was looking at them and he was like “weve got great layaway, 10% down 10% a month for 10 months”… how could i say no to an offer like that? haha
how do you rate the zt’s relic? I just got some yesterday and two are going to a friend as mentioned above.
Hey gords, I rate them very good. HKJ did a review of them recently too. I will note they are less than rated capacity, even when charged to 4.3V. At 4.2V they are around 2300mAh IIRC. Mine are all unprotected. I have 20 of them now, all work great.
I received a very nice looking 3” x 3” cube of 6061 Aluminum yesterday afternoon. Heat sink. 
The guys at onlinemetals.com cut it near perfectly.
Also got a couple of XM-L2 T6 3C 5000K emitters from Illumination Supply, so I’m about ready to start reflowing again with a much larger emitter to work with! 
Still waiting on the drivers to mod the HD2010 with this emitter and a copper star.
I have been looking for a small 1xAA pocket light for some time. I finally settled on this model from SBFlashlights who shipped well packaged and extremely fast. It’s got a nice HA3 natural finish in the version I selected as well as an orange peel reflector and anti-reflective lens. The knurling is well done without being overly aggressive befitting a light of this size. The emitter is well centered and has no yellow or blue tinge. The twist head function I don’t find at all objectionable again for something this small. The regulated ~0.1/5/35/130 Lumen spacing I find to my liking. I disagree with those who feel the the super low firefly/moonlight is too low; I deem it very useful.
The only nit is the sharp edge to the bottom lanyard cutout. I may have to give it a light pass with a very fine file.