Killed a Lux V - what should I have done?

twentysixtwo · May 4, 2006

Bought a WW0S Emitter for my U2, (Thanks Photon Fanatic!) hoped to swap it out and re-use my old emitter in some other projects.

I was warned that it would probably destroy my old emitter. Sure enough, separated the darn thing. Was this truly unavoidable or was there some way to get it off (Exacto blade?) without destroying it?

roguesw · May 4, 2006

twentysixtwo
was the emitter epoxied to the alumium bulkhead? this is news to me, as i thought surefire didnt use epoxy but rather thermal paste
if it was epoxied into place, its pretty much impossible to remove it, because of the small area, its hard to slip a exacto knife inbetween the emitter and the aluminium bulkhead.
i wonder why surefire is using thermal epoxy now...
btw, got any pics of the emitter and bulkhead?

Luna · May 4, 2006

GL in trying the separate the emitter from the sink on a u2 with an exacto. It is surrounded by a locating edge (opening for leads only) and epoxied.

wasBlinded · May 4, 2006

If you carefully heat up the heat sink to 220-250 deg F or so, the epoxy will soften and you might be able to prise the Lux up without destroying it. Still a bit of a crapshoot though.

twentysixtwo · May 4, 2006

The emitter was definitely on with some sort of adhesive (thermal epoxy) though it wasn't a super strong adhesive - once I popped the shell off it wasn't too hard to get the remaining slug off.

Killed a Lux V - what should I have done?

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