If a freezer would be useful, how about placing dry ice in the bezel? Would it be feasible?
Ok.
H51 disassembled:
H51 with new nichia219 reflowed and awaiting final reassembly:
Fully assembled H51 but now with more CRI goodness (bad phone photo, the lens/reflector are not cloudy):
Please disregard the shape of my poor H51. It saw a lot of rough use before the swap, and none of that damage was caused by the mod.
A few things to note:
- The bezel is press fit.
- The stock emitter pcb is screwed down to the head.
- The reflector is also press fit, but comes out easily enough with a few gentle taps.
- The lens dimensions are 18mm x 1mm
- The nichia219 was reflowed onto the stock pcb.
As with most xpg to nichia mods, the hotspot is now slightly more diffuse - which most may find that to be a good thing. Output is less and of course the color rendition and tint speak for themselves.
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Yes epoxy is the easiest way but it's my EDC so I would prefer it to stay streamlined and pleasant visually ;-) that can be hard with epoxy.
Another possible solution could be drilling few small holes around bezel end epoxying cylinder shaped neodymium magnets. But I'm not even sure if magnets that small (1-2 mm in diameter) are available.
I prefer the form factor of the ZL and its interface over current Spark models so this is not solution for me.
Im looking to make some magnetic diffusers utilising the steel ring on zebralights. Has no one done this or can you buy them somewhere? Might do a few with lenses to widen the beam for walking too. I did try to search but got weird results lol
Sounds like a nice idea, but make sure that the ZL bezel is magnetic itself. I just tried on the three that I have with me (an SC600 Mk III, an H52w, and an H502w), and none of those bezels will hold a magnet. Many stainless steels are like this--they don't respond to magnets.
So you might need to replace the bezel, too.