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Cover myself while I breastfeed? OK in c/maliciouscompliance

[–] DimmedNeon 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It could have had that meaning had Dr. Moose not elucidated that he had made a tittie joke.

TS10 emitter swap between brass and aluminum? in c/flashlight

[–] DimmedNeon 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good question. Two reasons.

Weight.
Not wanting to run the risk of galvanic corrosion between brass and aluminum. My chemistry knowledge is virtually nil, so maybe this is nonsense. But TS10s are nice enough that I don't want to even risk ruining them by doing something that doesn't bring enough value. (Ruining them by trying the MCPCB swap, though, that's a different story 😀 )

TS10 emitter swap between brass and aluminum? in c/flashlight

[–] DimmedNeon 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for such a detailed answer! I see on your reddit profile you shared a bunch of very useful posts with detailed photos of TS10 bezel removal and MCPCB removal Should be a breeze after studying that.

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TS10 emitter swap between brass and aluminum? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DimmedNeon to c/flashlight

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Is 3000k in the standard aluminum body possible? Is it possible to then put the standard aluminum TS10's emitters to the brass body?

I like 3000k as a night/bathroom lamp, but brass is quite heavy. It would be great to have 3000k in the standard aluminum body.

The pic shows the furthest I dared to go, which is still just the beginning:)

My limitations are:

I'm a noob. Never did an emitter swap. Never disassembled a flashlight. Limited experience with a soldering iron from a summer job 15 years ago.
I don't have a reflow pads nor a hot air gun.
I only have a soldering iron, so the 4 wires are probably the maximum I can manage. I'm afraid of that too, though.
IDK how to disassemble the electronics out of the metal head. Is the only way to remove the driver and the emitter PCB to remove the screw and then desolder the 3 wires? Or is the screw enough without any soldering necessary? Did any of you disassemble the TS10 yet?

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Thank you folks for this amazing community, an oasis of peacefulness. You are such chill friendly folks:) Long time occasional lurker.

Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts in c/[email protected]

[–] DimmedNeon 3 points 1 year ago

It allows you to define "lenses" which are presets modifying the search (such as including or excluding a set of sites, but sadly max 10) and it allows you to change priorities of domains in the search result ranking (so I usually block usual stackoverflow copycats and sometimes raise intriguing niche sites). It's not everything imaginable in terms of customizability, but it's good enough not to be a pain to use, unlike everything else including DDG (although arguably, DDG is miles ahead of Google, Bing, or provincial engines).