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You call yourself The Novice, but this type of tinkering is at least the Journeyman level!
I like that you are not afraid to modify equipment to work for you. Your willingness to share your experience will motivate others to do the same.
I have been criticized for painting a rifle that was rusted and had bad a finish. Now I have a rifle that is camo and works for me and the way I use it.
As an old Submarine Electrician, I think you were right, that the heat from soldering cause the failure. That type of soldering requires special techniques, such as heat sinks.
Great article!
Elkmanjack, thank you for the encouraging word. And well done painting the rifle so that it works well for you. Will have to remember heat sinks the next time I am soldering so close to an LED.
Hmmm…… You may be finished tinkering with the 2620, but while reading about your experiments, I had a thought. Why not use the Night Ize white light kit in the formerly Xenon space and put 3 red LEDs in the former white LED space? This may solve the problem of the red LEDs not being bright enough and the spotlight LEDs being too bright for close work.
Great suggestion, Ma G. Will have to take another look at that unit.
Great article. One of these days I’m going to have to learn how to solder 😉
As for painting a rifle…I bought a rusty 22 bolt rifle at a pawn shop for $25 once and after cleaning, painted the metal gray and the stock black. Mechanically the rifle was in perfect condition and shot very well. At least in my mind the rifle was quite nice looking. I still have it and am quite pleased with my “find”.