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Yup Smudge is the man!!
Dunc I have a few battery packs in stock with chargers if you are stuck
They are of course Smudge packs
Trout - YHM
Thanks troutie, I can also vouch he only sells my batteries & chargers.
Troutie YGM.
Ok its between a smudge pack or a DIY 4 x 18650 or 6 x 18650 unit.
What kind of run time on full are people getting with a home made 4 x 18650 cell pack?
Ta
Ok dumb driver setting questions (sorry)
I have made my battery pack 6 x 3.7v Li-ions. In a 11.1v 4800mah configuration.
What should I set the current drive level at, and the voltage cut off level? Is there some formula for working it out?
I assume that if I reduce the current drive level I get longer burn time but less brightness, and too high a current drive level I fry the LED's and reduce battery life?
Ta
Hi Dunc
Voltage cutoff 3 volt per cell or parellel pair so 9 volts
drive current for the h6flex not over 3 amps
but either 2 amps or 2.8 amps will do nicely
better runtime on the 2 amp setting though .
Thanks for the quick response!
Is black cat still doing the drivers and are there ones which don't get knacked by the current.
Hi Trout,
Is it possible for you to modify some Hope Vision 2 lights? The housing looks a bit tight for fitting new Leds and optics but do your think it would be possible?
Cheers
Never had a vision 2 in bits or in my hand so cant comment on its upgrade ability .
but am prepared to give it a coat of looking at .
Off to the geeky light forums to search as sure I have seen one on there that has been done
Quirrel Black cat is still on ebay but he never did the drivers for these diy lights they were taskled Lflex or H6flex www.taskled.com
Can you modify a old trail tech hid housing to a LEDs? I've got one of smudges 14.4v lion batteries to use with it.
[url= http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?215454-Hope-Visions-2-LED-MC-E-upgrade-how-to-Dialup-warning-Picture-heavy ]Hope 2 tinkerer[/url]
Cheers for the links guys. I could send you mine Trout if you don't mind having a look at it, I'll happily cover cost/time.
I got 2hr 40 mins on FULL last night before I had to switch the light off and go to bed!
I'm surprised how much run time I got. Recharging the batteries tonight and will have a re run (switching on earlier) to see how long a full charge lasts.
The only down size is the charge time which is about 4 1/2 hrs per 2 batteries.... think I might have to order another charger from DX.
Might then turn the current drive up to 2800 and see if that makes much difference to the already stupid brightness!
Anyone know of a source of xpg's. my cutter quad has come away from the board yet again, second fail. I'll take an Xre next time as I'm fed up fixing them.
Anyone in the uk got one?
Trout when i get the pennies together I'll have one of those mk3's!
I posted this on a seperate thread, as wasn't sure if this one was still alive.
My DIY XML light which uses a TaskLed H6Flex driver with 2 XML LEDs in series stopped working at the weekend.
I went to turn it on and it flashed once, and now doesn't switch on, I have checked there is power getting to the board, but apart from that I am not sure how I can test it.
Just checked the TaskLed website and they won't have any H6Flex drivers until mid November, are there any other drivers I could use, its a 14.8V smudge battery pack.
Thanks Doug
Sent you an email Trout mate. Interested in any type of DIY kit your doing 🙂