Surefire A2 Aviator meets Seoul SSC P4 *This may offend Incandescent A2 enthusiasts*

[depusm12]

WOW. Now if only SF would offer this as a stock light.

 

[socom1970]

I love my A2's and their incan goodness, but I would love to have just one of them with an SSC or other BRIGHT LED's. Excellent job and congrats on going where no one has gone before.

 

[greenpea76]

Thanks!
I didn't realize some of the links weren't working. All restored.

 

[paulr]

I didn't see this before. Congrats for the daring mod, but you could just buy a Lunasol...

 

[SilverFox]

Hello Greenpea,

I missed this thread earlier and miss your request to move it over to the modified section.

I will take care of that now.

Nice job.

Tom

 

[greenpea76]

I didn't see this before. Congrats for the daring mod, but you could just buy a Lunasol...

Aren't those one of the really expensive lights? I don't have that kind of money, though they look so nice.

Silverfox, thanks for moving my post!

 

[KDOG3]

Any updates on this? Its very interesting.

 

[Sgt. LED]

Sweet!
We need a rebel 100 tower that we can just drop in. I could not bore my A2 head.

I just swapped out driver pills between an early round body and an old 4 flats so my strion kit would work better in the 4 flats. Easier that I thought it was going to be actually. For some reason the round body A2 drove the strion kit to a bright white light but the 4 flats driver made it a bit yellow still. I guess that means the round body driver was upgraded to put out more power? Anyway now on to the next hack mod.

 

[frosty]

Nice job. Very brave of you.

 

[LiteFan]

The A2 is no longer a Led virgin, you should be ashamed of yourself :devil:and congrads on being the first:thumbsup:....very cool.

 

[Cheesy]

Camera settings were at F2.8 setting. I've never done these type of beamshots before so I'm not sure if they were done correctly, but its just to prove that the mod works.

If you took them in aperture priority at f2.8 the shutter speed will have changed to expose each shot roughly the same, you need to use full manual to lock the aperture and shutter speed. This may be why the high and low look the same.


Kev.

 

[type-x]

Great stuff there, now if only I have the guts to bore out the a2 head :mecry:

 

[vtec]

How do you do this mod? Is there a step by step with pictures? Where do you get the parts? What tools and materials do you need?

 

[Wattnot]

Wow. You resurrected a nearly year old post. I wonder how this mod compares with the now released, all new, all LED A2L !!

 

[M@elstrom]

I wonder how this mod compares with the now released, all new, all LED A2L !!

I wonder about that myself

 

[greenpea76]

Maybe I can borrow someone's A2L to compare? Or I can send mine out to somebody with reputable reviews for comparison?

How do you do this mod? Is there a step by step with pictures? Where do you get the parts? What tools and materials do you need?

vtec,

There really wasn't a step to step oh how to do this. I just decided to "hack away" one weekend to see if it could be done. SSC P4's can be purchased from several sources on CPF. The lead extensions are from Nichia 5mm LED's and the aluminum slug is just what I had laying around that I ground down ( before I had a lathe ). The base is an A2 lamp assembly that was cut apart and the LED driver was from a few extras purchased at DX (dealextreme). Now that I can afford it, I would probably buy from the sandwich shoppe or task led. They're much smaller in diameter also. The head was drilled on a drill press! I forgot what size drill bit though. I guess I could rebuild the LED tower to make it "prettier", but why when it works just fine. I still haven't bothered with swapping out the resistors in the tail cap for a lower low.
Originally, I didn't want the L2 nor the L4 since I had 3 A2's already and I just was very curious as to how a modded A2 would perform, but I can say it is much better than my KL4.

 

[greenLED]

Maybe I can borrow someone's A2L to compare? Or I can send mine out to somebody with reputable reviews for comparison?

It would've been a killer addition to my A2 LED colors thread, but I can't do stuff like that anymore because of my location.

 

[greenpea76]

Finally updated the tailcap with a 62 ohm resistor since the revival of this thread. Reading 470Lux on low now. Much more usable low setting now vs. the original "medium" and high.


greenLED, are you living in a place where there is daylight 24/7?

 

[dmz]

Can someone post links to the parts that are needed for the led mod?

 

[Illum]

Finally updated the tailcap with a 62 ohm resistor since the revival of this thread. Reading 470Lux on low now. Much more usable low setting now vs. the original "medium" and high

if I may ask how did you managed to do that?
the A2 tailcap is destroyed once its disassembled:shakehead