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    TrustFire TR-J1

    You need to open the complete thing, as described in the pictures in the previous pages. I open them this way, and I remove MID and STROBE by removing the small magnet captor. Your captors may be defect or welded strangely...
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    TrustFire TR-J1

    Hi all replaced the Oring;15x2 duro70 its fine. somebody got galvanic corrosion on his TJ-J2 on DX (in the pictures). Is there any user here that got this trouble ??? If yes, how long does it take ? I had this problem previously on an other model that served as backup, It was made of...
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    Soldering 18650 or not

    I got many laptop battery, and it seem that some board when detecting a fault condition, drain the cells to 0v to eleminate the risk of fire. they are not made to be repaird .... just throw and buy an other. So i only take fresh 'suddent death' battery; cells are more likely to be in good condition.
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    TrustFire TR-J1

    Hi I got a such light and removed medium and strobe reed. Its better this way. If batt are low, medium will not extend the duration enought to worth the cost, and strobe ... I also changed the Oring with better one. Light then pass the 125psi test. See ya
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    New divelight @ Manafont

    I ordered 4 PALIGHT BG-QS88, one from DX, 1 mode, and 3 from ebay seller, Hi and strobe modes. Price are great, construction is solid, and there are two Oring everywhere. Glass is thick. So since 3-4 months, they all still work well, no leak at all, i did not toutch the Orings. Construction...
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    SST-90, 9A, Aspheric Primary Light

    Last dive in the Fjord i used one of those led mounted on a cpu heatsink in the front of my pimped farallon scooter. I use the bare led without any reflector. its driven to 4A on 3 die, to use it with a 4 cell battery with an H6cc and a halltoggle i did not check the video yet, but as other...
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    Twist type Reed Switch- how have you done it?

    some are close to the way i use rotating colars and magnet, without lathe i'll post soon some picture
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    Bonjour, Du québec ????

    Bonjour, Du québec ????
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    3*XML-U2 diving flashlight mod - Intel 775 heatsink??

    Hi This look like what i made some time ago as light in my old Farallon scooter. Body is aluminium, so no heat problem. I run it from a separate battery and light is trigger by reed switch. I bypassed one of the die to get a lower working voltage, and i supplied a smaller flat cpu fan on the...
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    8000 Lumen Video Light

    you should use a thermistor switch in the head to avoid Poof & :oops: nice work !
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    Video lights for cave diving

    i will need to find a go pro soon, i have a pair of direct driven sst90 5700K already set in mag head, with aspheric at widest...
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    water filter housing as a dive light canister?

    just give it a try It may be less tought than delrin canister but may be an alternative. for depth rating, send it to sombody who have a pressure pot to test it, or dive it with a weight in, to desired depth, and then let it go in the abyss with a reel to 50-100ft more. There it may implode or...
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    Pressure Pot to Test DIVE LIGHTS!

    you guys are making strange plans to make complicated pots ... should make a shooting session with mine someday i got a damn big 6'' steel pipe heavy wall, plate for flange, bottom (12x12'') and lid are .5'' steel i dont know why, but i dont move it when its full of water... I got evrething...
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    tlslights update

    Re: tlslights.com update would 3 serie of 18650 would enter in a row ? from memory, something only 2cm longer would fit ? also the black lid as you made were nice !
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    18650 ultrafire dive light set up

    is that desing looking like a stolen barbo ?
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