OndrejP_SK
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Hi everyone,
I'm new here. I've been reading the forums, learning from all the knowledge here.
I had this light that came on one bike I flipped, very similar to XC-997 light available from DX (http://dx.com/s/xc+997) and decided to replace the emitter with something stronger. I had a bare neutral XML T6 from fasttech at hand, so decided to try that.
I heated up the aluminum board with a cigarette lighter and simply lifted the original LED from the board.
The original LED is 3.5 x 3.5mm (looks like XP-C, same size like an XP-G), but the XML is 5 x 5 mm. I scraped some of the paint to uncover the copper under it, shortened the conductive paths to the emitter bottom electrodes slightly (they are farhter apart on the XML which is 5 x 5mm). Then I covered the bare copper with solder, placed the XML emitter on the board and again gently heated the entire board with lighter until the solder melted and the new LED was fixed to the board. Then cooled it again as soon as possible with a little water on the alu board.
Then soldered back the red and blue wires from the circuitry, and slightly filed the hole in the reflector (from circular to square), but that's all.
All I can say is that the light with the new LED is crazy bright. Unfortunately I can't really compare the before and after output by measurements or by beamshots, but it feels like the amount of light has doubled.
The shape of the beam projected on wall looks very similar to the original XC-997 (http://club.dx.com/reviews/photos/82138/145961) but the bottom part is significantly wider and there seems to be more spill. I will try to get some beamshots if I can.
I'm new here. I've been reading the forums, learning from all the knowledge here.
I had this light that came on one bike I flipped, very similar to XC-997 light available from DX (http://dx.com/s/xc+997) and decided to replace the emitter with something stronger. I had a bare neutral XML T6 from fasttech at hand, so decided to try that.
I heated up the aluminum board with a cigarette lighter and simply lifted the original LED from the board.
The original LED is 3.5 x 3.5mm (looks like XP-C, same size like an XP-G), but the XML is 5 x 5 mm. I scraped some of the paint to uncover the copper under it, shortened the conductive paths to the emitter bottom electrodes slightly (they are farhter apart on the XML which is 5 x 5mm). Then I covered the bare copper with solder, placed the XML emitter on the board and again gently heated the entire board with lighter until the solder melted and the new LED was fixed to the board. Then cooled it again as soon as possible with a little water on the alu board.
Then soldered back the red and blue wires from the circuitry, and slightly filed the hole in the reflector (from circular to square), but that's all.
All I can say is that the light with the new LED is crazy bright. Unfortunately I can't really compare the before and after output by measurements or by beamshots, but it feels like the amount of light has doubled.
The shape of the beam projected on wall looks very similar to the original XC-997 (http://club.dx.com/reviews/photos/82138/145961) but the bottom part is significantly wider and there seems to be more spill. I will try to get some beamshots if I can.
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