Okay, Dave. My package came from Cutter and my friends bought a couple of EOS's as well, so I have my old EOS and their newer ones. The newer one seem lighter than the old. Not as sturdy.
What value did you end up with for R12? I did some experimentation with just adding resistors on top of the R12 to lower the value. I have no real problem sacrificing an LED or even my older EOS to see how well it would work. I tried 1 Ohm, then 0.5 Ohm on top and it brightened it up pretty well. I then went crazy and tried another 0.33 Ohm sense resistor, effectively halving the value. It was pretty bright and I was going to do some measurements of the heat output, but going that low, I started to get a high pitch whistling from the board, so I gave up on that. I'll probably stick with the 0.5, but I need to make some actual measurements to make sure I'm not going to kill anything long term.