VV In Progress

I love miniaturized mods, so I thought I would make a flashlight mod with variable voltage, based on Donptal's Poorvari circuit and using 2-14250 batts for power. Here's what I started with:

MXDL 1-AA LED Flashlight


It was a very good little pocket flashlight, keychain and all. It was almost a shame to tear it apart, but we must make sacrifices for our art, mustn't we?

Anyway, I pulled the Cree LED cartridge out, stripped all the parts from the PCB and rewired it.


It was a really tight fit, but I managed to get it all in the flashlight head. I filled it entirely with my new hot-glue gun and let it cool for 1/2 hour. Here is the result:

















Beautiful, isn't it?

Actually, something musta shorted when I was stuffing everything into the tube, for I had a really good 7.4v tube mod. No matter what I set the pot for, it was always 7.4v :blink:

It's not a total loss, I will use the tube for a simpler mod. Bummer of the night!

Sometimes you eat the worm, sometimes the worm eats you.

 

sorry to see it not work....., i tried building a boosted mod using one battery(like the pro vari) using a booster reg from polou robotics...damn thing wouldn't work, tried 2 and nothing, had super cheap pots on them and tried wiring a new pot and still no boost...

 

I will try again, have plenty of the parts, just need to figure out how to stuff it all in with no shorts

 

Hehe. Stuff it in with no shorts.

 

Hmmm he should have known someone would go there. LOL