Damaged My Romisen RC-29, DOH! :-(

[sol-leks]

I was almost too embarassed to shared this story, but I thought other mights learn from my folly.

I know nothing about modding or working with the internals of my lights but I have always been curious and I heard how easy it is to disassemble the RC-29, so I thought I'd give it a go. It took some time, but I disassembled it without any difficulty. However, I had some trouble figuring out how to reassemble it. I finally did but in the process I busted one of the O-rings. No huge deal though.

Then.....I noticed the beam looked a little weird.....
Something was going on with the emitter. I disassembled it again and the glue that held the dome over the emitter was bubbling, so I wiped it off and in doing so knocked off the emitter dome. I then tried to reassemble the light without it but it totally changes the output and makes it much dimmer. So then I tried gluing it back on and it seemed to work fine but the glue got all over the the dome. I was able to clean some of it off with nail polish remover, but there is still some on the inside of the dome in front of the emitter.

In the end, the light still works but is very diffused. On flood the light looks smooth still but is much dimmer and doesn't have the clean circle of light that it used to. When fully tightened the beam looks really ugly and splotchy from the glue. However it still looks quite nice in the in-between levels and the flood mode isn't that bad, so I guess the light is still a bit useable, although I wouldn't be surprised if it goes poof soon from the glue on the emitter. All in all it was a series of dumb moves, but I guess I learned something from the experience.

Luckily I also have a rc-c6 II WW and the RC-29 that I just damaged was from KD and only 15 bucks, so no big loss.

Well, thats my story. Hope you got a chuckle.

 

[bogeymachine]

welcome to the "dome decapitation" club, you're not alone...

bogey out

 

[Tractor man]

I think we all have days like that sometimes...I have a condition where I seem not to be able to do anything intricate in the morning without making a balls of it :shakehead. So if I have anything that needs some fine detail and a steady hand, I now always wait until the afternoon...Seems to work well for me

 

[Fichtenelch]

Now that you can take the old emitter off, time for an xp-g swap

 

[dirtech]

Perfect time for an emitter swap. I recently fried a SOB1000 converter and a U3 SSC P4 in one swoop due to shear dumbness so don't feel to bad.

 

[sol-leks]

Good idea!
I'm sure there is a good guide on doing this anyone want to link me? Thanks!

 

[dirtech]

Not sure about a guide, but you already know how to get the pill out. Desolder the wires to the led, pry up the star, clean the surface well, have led replacement on appropriately sized star ready, apply arctic alumina to the pill surface and place star on top. Press it down nice and firm while making sure its centered. Allow the adhesive to cure. Resolder the wires to their respective polarities, reassemble, test, and your done.

Only thing you may have to tinker with is the correct focus on spot. If the star is thicker you may not get the most throw. Try to use the same thickness of star, I guess.

 

[sol-leks]

I actually wasn't sure how to get the pill out I got down to it but couldn't remove it?

 

[dirtech]

Take the head off by unscrewing bezel, removing lens, unscrew metal ring inside head, screw head into body until it is free to be pulled off body toward the back. On mine, all that is left is to unscrew the pill from the body. I may be able to take some pics tonight if you want.

 

[sol-leks]

I guess I just had trouble with that last step, the pill didn't seem to want to come out of the body, but I'll try again thanks.