Photon Proton Pro 'Tango'ed

Photon Proton Pro 'N-celled'

A humble mod for a humble but unique light.

In its original condition..


Body was cut down and re-threaded. See where the logo ends.



The mod went OK, but I felt there was more to be done..


..and a body was machined from scratch.




A split ring will be added, and there might be more done on the bezel.

A good friend of mine here on CPF pointed out that an alakaline
n-cell may not be enough to run the circuit.

BTW, an n-cell is called a 'tan-5' or 'tan-go' battery over here,
so I'll call this mod a Photon Proton Pro Tango

Since there seems to be an overwhelming ammount of interest in this mod, :candle:
I've gone further and added the split ring!

Nice! from the land of Tango :wave:


Pablo

cool mod, how well does it run on the n cell?

Pablo, :wave: to you too. I find your music interesting, but appreciate the food even more

bray, your interest is encouraging as I have a few hundred of these being CNCed and will be
offering them for $50 each.






JK JK JK

Here are some 'runtime pics' tho.
ISO400, WB Daylight, 1/10 f5.6, on a fresh Toshiba Alakaline N cell.
Shots were done on 1 minute intervals. Numbers indicate minutes elapsed.



The light shut down completely at 20minutes 40 seconds.
After resting it for a few seconds, it would turn on at full brightness for appox 5 seconds
and dim down and die off in a few more.

Not as bad as expected for keychain use (considering they would be used for only a
few seconds at a time).
Please compare to runtme graphs done by member 'this_is_nascar'

Hey buddy,

So does the light run for 20mins 40secs on High?!

The 'good friend of mine' happens to be you, koala, the first person I've encountered online and
had the pleasure of meeting personally.

I'd say 15 minutes on max

It's a nice to meet you too... :twothumbs

I'm surprised N-cell works, because at high, the Proton consumes 1.3A. Did you experience any dimming compared to running an AA battery?

I tried it with 2.8v. The LEDs will work but the circuit becomes very unstable(crazy). The brightness control works. The on-off refuse to work properly,the LED will not go off. The CREE and 3mm Red LED switch alternatively, sometimes the mode jump around. So CR2 does not work .

I'll post circuit details soon.

nekomane said:

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LOL, its too good to be a coincidence, "proto" for "prototype"
reminds me of surefire etching "generation *number*" on their prototyping lights

nekomane said:

Photon Proton Pro 'N-celled'



Body was cut down and re-threaded. See where the logo ends.

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I think the cutdown version looks pretty cool....