How do you know which led will work? Is is something simple like any led will work or something complicated that takes years of experience to know?
I've watched several of your videos and seem to like them more than most because of the clarity of info and the details and you seem pretty cool in them. But I have read 10's of threads and 100's of posts here and then watched 10's of more mostly youtube videos and looked at all the referenced www's, and vendor sites and I'm still not really that much closer to the knowledge required to purchase anything much less start the repair work.
It seems simple enough, I have this old flashlight, very well made but older with an XR-E on a 16mm board that puts out about 160 lumens per their specs I don't know what driver it has but it does have the copper soldered to something and it has 3 modes high mid and flash, but it could be run from the switch. I want to upgrade the led but I don't want to learn this by trial and error and just see if a XHP70 for instance works if I just switch out the board.
And then the question continues so if I have to replace more than just the led, how do you know what else? For instance the flashlight is made for 2 ea cr123 a batteries. If I have to add or replace the driver how do you know which one will work with which led?
And then if I wanted to upgrade some more with 16340's and make it rechargeable what led's and driver's will work?
And then, do you even need a driver to make an led light up? - - - any help greatly appreciated - - -
So, I just wanted a little longer run time so I could see how to finish putting my car back together, the Atactical A1 had misfired a couple of time, you know, push the button and no light and then shake shake shake. So I grabbed the old Sightmark; never doesn't work, but does not last long. Ran it out of battery and none left around and I really need to get this thing back together so I can drive it to work tomorrow.
Easy solution right, just buy a new light? But that just wouldn't be right if I could just fix this one...
But I need to go to school and if you could help with the next class that would be great.
Thanks,
cbc
I've watched several of your videos and seem to like them more than most because of the clarity of info and the details and you seem pretty cool in them. But I have read 10's of threads and 100's of posts here and then watched 10's of more mostly youtube videos and looked at all the referenced www's, and vendor sites and I'm still not really that much closer to the knowledge required to purchase anything much less start the repair work.
It seems simple enough, I have this old flashlight, very well made but older with an XR-E on a 16mm board that puts out about 160 lumens per their specs I don't know what driver it has but it does have the copper soldered to something and it has 3 modes high mid and flash, but it could be run from the switch. I want to upgrade the led but I don't want to learn this by trial and error and just see if a XHP70 for instance works if I just switch out the board.
And then the question continues so if I have to replace more than just the led, how do you know what else? For instance the flashlight is made for 2 ea cr123 a batteries. If I have to add or replace the driver how do you know which one will work with which led?
And then if I wanted to upgrade some more with 16340's and make it rechargeable what led's and driver's will work?
And then, do you even need a driver to make an led light up? - - - any help greatly appreciated - - -
So, I just wanted a little longer run time so I could see how to finish putting my car back together, the Atactical A1 had misfired a couple of time, you know, push the button and no light and then shake shake shake. So I grabbed the old Sightmark; never doesn't work, but does not last long. Ran it out of battery and none left around and I really need to get this thing back together so I can drive it to work tomorrow.
Easy solution right, just buy a new light? But that just wouldn't be right if I could just fix this one...
But I need to go to school and if you could help with the next class that would be great.
Thanks,
cbc