Yes.... Another noob wanting to mod a maglite

[wight]

@Itinifni

Not even close to 3-4,000 lumens but this is what I did with my 4D Mag. An XM-L2 at 6.0A ain’t bad!

I’ve used it quite a bit since the build and it’s holding up well.

Good luck with the build, and if you get 3-4K out of it be sure to let us know.

I assume you never ran into any trouble with the AMC7135’s throttling? Nice mod.

@wight

I’d drop RMM a line about the DRY driver. [snip]

Nevermind, no reason to bug RMM about it - here’s an info thread:

New version DRY driver info thread goes here

http://www.cnqualitygoods.com/goods.php?id=1349 (note: specs shown there are still for the previous version) New listing: http://www.cnqualitygoods.com/goods.php?id=2123 http://www.mtnelectronics.com/opencart/index.php?route=product/product&path=67&product_id=182 [image] [image] 1.260"/32mm. Supposedly this one is no longer direct drive in 'turbo', but still in buck mode. Which probably gives more flexibility in using it for stuff other than 3 series LEDs with 3S cells. The six-…

Some info also shows up in this thread:

DRY driver on steroids

This topic is about the driver that is found in the DRY flashlight 3xCREE XM-L T6 link This is a extreme driver being capable to run 3 XML`s in “series” at very high current. I has 4 modes : low, medium, high, turbo. On turbo is known to be direct drive. [image] I burnt the transistor after I connected it by mistake to 3 xml`s in parallel. Not being able to find what was labeled on the original transistor I began to test it with different transistors I found on old computer motherboards. F…