Solarforce L2 w/custom XP-G drop in

[Hill]

Received my $12.99 solarforce host from Lighthound last week (what a great deal!) and had a spare XP-G + driver lying around so I put together a custom drop in for it. It's a nicely sized 18650 light, a little larger than my custom RC-F4 MCE mod, but has a slightly better hot spot and longer runtime.

Specs

Solarforce L2 18650 gunmetal grey
XP-G emitter
LXP optic
1A 3-speed driver
custom "$1.75" heatsink
bicycle inner tube grippy

 

[Black Rose]

Nice :thumbsup:

 

[gcbryan]

Where did you get the optic?

 

[Hill]

Where did you get the optic?

Several sources have the LXP optics. I bought mine from Digikey.

 

[tx101]

If I am not mistaken, your heatsink looks like some copper disks (coins ? )
glued together ?

Cool mod :thumbsup:

 

[Hill]

If I am not mistaken, your heatsink looks like some copper disks (coins ? )
glued together ?

Cool mod :thumbsup:

You got it!! It's 7 x quarters reflow soldered together (hence, why I call it 7 x 0.25 = $1.75 heatsink) I find them very useful and great heat conductors. I've also used pennies (pre 1982) and nickles, which have something like 95% copper content. They are reflow soldered on a stove top, then dremmeled and filed to fit. Take some work, but makes for very cool and useful heatsink.

 

[PCC]

Darn it, I figured out the $1.75 heatsink and was going to inquire about it but found that tx101 beat me to it.

Nice mod.