Picked up this Eagtac D25A titanium (2014 version I believe) that originally had an XM-L2, and swapped in a Convoy T6 (3V 5A AA/14500) driver and HT35 emitter from Kaidomain
It’s super slim for a 14500 light, only 18mm at the head vs 20.5mm for the FW1AA and 21.8mm for the KR1AA
Getting the pill out was by far the hardest part, I heated up the head using a hot air station and vice grips on the pill with rubber to protect the threads. Almost gave up at one point but it gradually broke free
Once the pill was out I desoldered the leads and pried out the old driver. Sanded down the Cpnvoy driver to ~15.5mm and used a Convoy T2/T3/T9 MCPCB as the stock MCPCB is thinner than normal at ~1mm. Also swapped the stock blue AR coated lens with an uncoated one
Had to sand down the centering ring a bit to get the focus right but now it’s perfect, I’m loving the HT35 and throw is really good
I measure 16.2kcd, for reference the KR-AA SFT70 3000k is only 6.4kcd. On medium mode I measure ~4500k and -0.0014 duv with my opple
Only con with this mod is the convoy driver doesn’t have moonlight, lowest mode is around 15lm to my eye. Though I’m starting to realize I never use moonlight on my EDC light, especially during the daytime so it’s fine for my use
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Picked up this Eagtac D25A titanium (2014 version I believe) that originally had an XM-L2, and swapped in a Convoy T6 (3V 5A AA/14500) driver and HT35 emitter from Kaidomain
It’s super slim for a 14500 light, only 18mm at the head vs 20.5mm for the FW1AA and 21.8mm for the KR1AA
Getting the pill out was by far the hardest part, I heated up the head using a hot air station and vice grips on the pill with rubber to protect the threads. Almost gave up at one point but it gradually broke free
Once the pill was out I desoldered the leads and pried out the old driver. Sanded down the Cpnvoy driver to ~15.5mm and used a Convoy T2/T3/T9 MCPCB as the stock MCPCB is thinner than normal at ~1mm. Also swapped the stock blue AR coated lens with an uncoated one
Had to sand down the centering ring a bit to get the focus right but now it’s perfect, I’m loving the HT35 and throw is really good
I measure 16.2kcd, for reference the KR-AA SFT70 3000k is only 6.4kcd. On medium mode I measure ~4500k and -0.0014 duv with my opple
Only con with this mod is the convoy driver doesn’t have moonlight, lowest mode is around 15lm to my eye. Though I’m starting to realize I never use moonlight on my EDC light, especially during the daytime so it’s fine for my use