So I had to take some parts from this light for someone's build so decided to rebuild it into a pen pointer for myself. It is a Hugsby XP2 and originally was a 120Lm 2x AAA flashlight which worked well but I needed a switch out of it and tore it apart. Well yesterday I put it back together but it was a real PITA.
For anyone interested in a mod or build of one of these be prepared for a headache getting the head apart. I desoldered the factory driver and looked inside, it had a solid shelf and I could not figure out forever how to get it apart. FINALLY I heated it like mad with a butane torch and wore gloves to use two pair of vice grips and broke it apart. The threads are below the knurling on the head assembly but it has some sort of paste or epoxy on them holding them together, and I've not been able to take one apart without damaging the anodizing.. maybe if I had some rubber to put on my vicegrips.
Oh by the way, I'm actually running the LED boost driver on this diode, it put a clean 380mA out off of 2x AAA and powered my LPC-826 up over 200mw with a G2 lens. All I did was replace the leads with my own wire and tested it on a test load, then I hooked it up since I had plenty of 826 to try it on... worked fine no issues so far. Its perfectly fine to run on 2x AAA but I haven't tried it on the 1x AAA body I have yet, nor with a single 10440 but soon I will.
Duty cycle is practically unlimited, i thermal pasted the module into the head of the flashlight to allow it to transfer heat out. It runs a set of AAA dead within 15 minutes though, and the driver will get up to around 120* F over that amount of time.
It's not a review just sharing that it is possible to build in these, but unless you have patience it's not for everyone. You cannot use whole modules unless you modify the head (by milling out the LED plate deck). Will try to add more pics of the build later. THanks.
I think I found my new EDC pointer
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For anyone interested in a mod or build of one of these be prepared for a headache getting the head apart. I desoldered the factory driver and looked inside, it had a solid shelf and I could not figure out forever how to get it apart. FINALLY I heated it like mad with a butane torch and wore gloves to use two pair of vice grips and broke it apart. The threads are below the knurling on the head assembly but it has some sort of paste or epoxy on them holding them together, and I've not been able to take one apart without damaging the anodizing.. maybe if I had some rubber to put on my vicegrips.
Oh by the way, I'm actually running the LED boost driver on this diode, it put a clean 380mA out off of 2x AAA and powered my LPC-826 up over 200mw with a G2 lens. All I did was replace the leads with my own wire and tested it on a test load, then I hooked it up since I had plenty of 826 to try it on... worked fine no issues so far. Its perfectly fine to run on 2x AAA but I haven't tried it on the 1x AAA body I have yet, nor with a single 10440 but soon I will.
Duty cycle is practically unlimited, i thermal pasted the module into the head of the flashlight to allow it to transfer heat out. It runs a set of AAA dead within 15 minutes though, and the driver will get up to around 120* F over that amount of time.
It's not a review just sharing that it is possible to build in these, but unless you have patience it's not for everyone. You cannot use whole modules unless you modify the head (by milling out the LED plate deck). Will try to add more pics of the build later. THanks.
I think I found my new EDC pointer
