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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Interesting. I’ve been eyeballing a boost-driver D1 for a bit, but after seeing the SC65c thermal throttling and knowing how quickly most Noctigon and Emisars step down due to heat, I might go for a DM11 since it has a bigger head, and will put more lumens “on target” with the TIR. My larger lights are all bucked/boosted and are set up for reasonable sustained output instead of being 30 second hand melters











  • To quote myself from a reddit post from a few years back (I just nuked the album in imgur recently, oops!), I modded a DQG AA (not AAA) with a Nichia 219C:

    “So, using the very fine tip of my soldering iron I reflowed that son of a bitch in place (yes without removing the single-piece driver/LED board or the retaining collar) using my $17 Amazon iron set to what it claims is 450C (840F) by just heating the exposed nubs on the positive and negative solder pad that stick past the LED package. The middle thermal pad came off the driver board but without any apparent ill effects.”

    Some LEDs can be heated from the side in this manner, too.