DX Cree and driver Questins. Please Help.

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I posted this in the DX forums yesterday and have hot got any answers so I thought I would try here.

I am thinking of using SKU: 6190 5-Mode 1000mA 7135 Circuit Board for Cree and SSC Emitters and or SKU: 2394 Cree XR-E Q5 Emitter on Premium Star (228LM at 1A) to mod a c2. Will a C2 be any brighter with a Q5? Does the C2 use a P4? Will the 5 mode circuit fit the C2? Is the 6190 regulated? Sorry to ask so many questions at one time but the C2 is a great light and I don't want to mess it up. Thanks for any help.
 
first i am going to drag you out back and shoot you, for not providing a link
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.6190
and then using to many abbreviations :laughing:


if your talking about the same C2 they are talking about the ultrafire c2
then you should look in the reviews on THAT page???
i bet you didnt know about the reviews there that are like a subminiature forum for just that part.

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This neat little board can easily be fitted into an UltraFire C2 with minimal effort - very easy !.

Tear apart your C2, remove the 2 solder blobs holding the original regulator board in the pill, unsolder the red and black wires from the old board and solder these existing red and black wires onto the new board.

You will have to file the edge of the new board to remove the 2 flat areas (where the board has been snapped away from its brothers) to make the new board fit neatly into the pill.

Solder a couple of low-profile blobs to secure the new board into the pill - at the same time you can solder a fat blob onto the central dot of the new board so a protected (no anode nipple)18650 can work fine.

This mod enables multi-modes with a C2, AND bright operation with a single 18650. A Q5 CREE on a modified star (filed edges of aluminium star to make it fit) will be the next step, making this an excellent light.

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a Q5 is about (depending on which one) 20lumens brighter than a P4, and how that looks to the human eye is about 105% or less, whoopie. Q5s are great, but not that much different than a P4 unless ya phosphors and die are fading.

most of the purpose of the board is to be a current regulator first, then it has the added microcontroller stuff to do the levels stuff.
chances are it really goes into direct drive at around 4volts or so, cause a lot of those do, because of the chips they use.
if you use 2 Cells and 6+ volts then you will need the other one, which drops out of regulation (the opposite way) right below the 4 volts :)
 
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Thanks! I plan on upgrading my ultra fire c2 and the using is old parts to upgrade my advanced auto parts led light.
 
these things dont come with the wires on them, the wires are in the bag , but not connected.
so you might want to print the picture there off the web site, so you dont go nuts trying to figure out where the wires go , like others have.
there are 3 solder "pads" on the chip, and one of them LOOKs like a place to stuff a wire and it isnt.

the 2 places for the led might be marked with a + and a - but it blends into the board a lot. so that is why i say grab the pic you can see there, just in case it isnt there, or you dont have web access when you need it.

they dont come with manuels, and if it did i couldnt read chineese anyways.
 
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