XPS L2000 3 leds 3 18650's

Flashlight Modding and DIY Parts
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Hello I just picked up a XPS L2000 from an Amish discount store, don’t know anything about it.
It came from Bass Pro but I didn’t find anything from there site about it.
One add said black friday 2015 79.00.

3 LED’s 3 18650’s. Larger pop can style light with switch on the handle.

Gave 12 bucks for it with box and 2 chargers.

Changed out the cells for some fresh laptop pulls. 2 of the 3 led barely light up.

I unscrewed the bezel and noticed there is a red wire from the switch or the charge port disconnected from the board.

from switch or charge port 2 white wires go to KEY on the driver.
Black wire goes to outer ground ring.
Red wire is unhooked from driver board.

I believe the red wire is for the charging port.

Anyone know anything about this light ?

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Ok, was looking for tear down and modding info. Got it apart, doing some trouble shooting.

Will try and get pics tonight.

EDIT- cannot get the LEDs to light on there own. Appear to be ran in series. But I am not getting any response

EDIT2- 2 leds super faint , getting 7.6 and 5 volts to led leads. LEDs seam to be glued on.

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Wired up some LEDs in Series, hooked to driver, crossed the KEY on driver. Worked, went through a HI a LOW and STROBE. Stopped working.

Checked all connections again, tried again, NOTHING. Driver isn’t working, LEDS are not working.

Will need new driver and MCPCB for LEDS

Cells are in series with Pos and Neg on the same end of battery carrier.

Leds are in series.

Might be more work then its worth.

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Sounds like you will need a buck driver and strip the old driver for a contact plate… Go for it!!!

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HMM, don’t the buck drivers need to be mounted to the host for cooling ?

The driver and LED board are about 45mm . The reflector is aluminum and has some weight to it.

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Chad, I would be somewhat surprised if it really is a buck driver that came in it. Not having seen the battery carrier or having hit it with a meter… I am just speculating at this point. Load the carrier and measure the voltage at the +/- terminals. I think thermally you would be ok with a decent above board mount. This is how I mounted the FET driver in my D01, the copper strips would make very good heat conductors and a custom contact board with lots of copper would also help sink heat away…

At this point, is the project worth the effort to you??? Looks like it would make a decent e-switch light and would be a fun/learning project! I would be tempted to convert it to a 3.7v light, if it is not. Then DD is a possible option. Maybe another battery carrier would fit that is parallel?

Matt

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Not sure about buck driver as my knowledge is limited. There is 12.46 volts out of the battery carrier. With stock LED board I got 7.6 and 5 volts on the LED leads.
When I hooked it to 3 leds in series it worked for a while.

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Oh… 12v, MT-G2 time? Gonna be a flooder either way… Not sure about sourcing a reflector.

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I like the idea of changing the batteries and LED to parallel. Maybe use that srk 32 7135 driver from MtElectronics.

The current led board is no good, I will have to check and see if the 32mm triple noctigon will work.

Also the led board is sandwiched between the reflector and the disc with 2 holes and a notch.

Not sure how that would work with Noctigon board as the face would be pressed against the reflector.

Will be busy rest of the week and weekend. Will have some time to think where I am going with this.