Fenix E01 LED Swap

Anyone pulled it off, Im wanting to buy a couple of E01 and change them up a bit, maybe a blue one and a red one, also like the sound of a UV one.

Im not sure if its a straight forward desolder and solder in a new LED , Im not at all clued up on forward voltage and input current going to x driver etc.

Where should I look for LEDs, what brand, voltage, brightness?

Would this UV LED be a good place to start http://www.ledsupply.com/l7-0-u5th15-1.php See I notice it has a voltage 3.6V but my AAA battery outputs 1.5V less if I run nimh.

Help guys.

Or if there are any better UV torches for less than a couple of bucks with decent wavelength UV leds in them (<375nm +- 10nm)

Unfortunately it's not so simple as desoldering a stock Nichia GS and putting another LED in its place, since E01 is a voltage regulated light (as CPF member chimo discovered back in 2008):

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...iciency-data&p=2484622&viewfull=1#post2484622

Cheers,

Tam

Thanks for the link.

But how come Novatacs and the such are easy to swap emitters in seeing as they are voltage regulated.

If I put a more effiicient emitter in the E01 id would be brighter right?

I hope we'll get a competent answer from some of our modding experts

I'm not perfectly satisfied with my E01's tint and beam profile so I've tried diffusing it with quite satisfactory results (thx rookiedaddy), but swapping a stock emitter for a more efficient one would be the real thing.

As far as I understand, E01's driver is specifically built for Nichia GS (its Vf taken into account) so there is a possibility of frying the swap LED (or driver itself) if you miss the correct ohm value of the current-limiting resistor. (I may be wrong, though :thinking

Cheers,

Tam

I've always wanted a warm/neutral tint E01. Not sure why companies dont use ~5000K Nichia emitters.