Welcome back to adventure sport I'm Matt, in today's episode I'm going to show you
how to boost the lux or the range of your convoy L6 flashlight. You'll learn how
to de-dome the emitter, boost the current on the driver board, and i'm gonna share my
results with you from testing of the SMO reflector prototype. If you've seen my
video best flashlight under a hundred bucks you know that the convoy L6
is already a super-powered light to begin with but there's always that
little voice inside of all our flashaholic heads that cries for more so
i thought i'd do this tutorial
once you've got the reflector and bezel removed there's a couple of set screws
inside that hold the emitter down just remove those and then detach the
electrical leads through soldering iron with those free the middle just pop
right out it's not epoxy down it's just on thermal grease
dedomoing an xhp type emitter is pretty simple you won't meet any solvents all
you'll need to do is just grab a razor blade and slice the dome off the top
just be careful you don't slice too close to the dies because you can
actually cut the wires and damage the LEDs here's what it should look like
when you're done now take a pair of needlenose pliers and loosen the ring
that holds the driver in once the drivers free we can do the modification
we need to on it if for some reason you need more linked on the wires or you
want to take it completely out you have to detach it from the switch as well the
switch can be loosed the same way as the retaining ring from the driver board
you just need to pop it out from the front by pushing from behind it like
this
what we'll do now is locate the bank of sense resistors that you can see here
and then we're going to solder another resistor over the top of those to boost
our driver current i added in R120 which boosted the current to 6.3 for amps
make sure you don't get any volunteer solder bridges if you do just make sure
you just wipe them off with your soldering iron or a piece of solder wick
while I had the driver out i also replaced the wires that were in it with some
silver coated teflon so that I could play with the focus of the reflector at
the request of the left member jdub74 Simon sent me some of the prototype and
Smooth reflectors to play with so i thought i'd share my results on that
now it's time to test and see what we've gained a factory convoy
oil six had a lux of 75,550 dedoming the emitter got us to a hundred
thousand 250 adding the resistor mod to that we've got a hundred and sixteen
thousand 750 changing the focus that reflector I got up to a hundred and
thirty thousand and using the SMO reflector we got a hundred and sixty
four thousand lux out of our convoy L6 here if you comparison shots of
what the beamline looks like with the different options so now we've seen how
to do on the LED how to boost the driver current and also the results of using
the SMO reflector in our convoy L6 and that's how to double your lux we
don't have an ETA on the availability of the smooth reflectors yet but i will be
offering the dedome and Driver current boost his options on my website so if
you'd like to get one with this already done to it you can follow the link below
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