My girlfriend went out tonight and left me at home alone 
so i decided to mod cheap P60 host with quad Nichia 219C 
with orange illuminated tail switch
Got most of the work on the giveaway light & diffuser done
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Looks awesome CRX!!! :+1: :+1: :+1:
Iām surprized by seeing the difuser going all the way down! :exclamation:
Thanks, yeah iām just experimenting, i thought it would be cool if i can basically fit the whole light in the diffuser and have it lit up that way for compactness.
Still working on it. 
If I donāt win it :disappointed: in your 1000 posts GAW, please consider if youād be willing to make me a similar one. I really appreciate the unique personality of DIY handmade flashlights (& stuff in general) and love brass/copper (and wood) as material.
That is a very nice compliment, thank you, i will keep that in mind :+1:
Was about to finish a 3up XP-E2 Convoy S3, but my cheap china-programmer refused to workā¦
Connection test gives me : ācould not find USB device with vid=0x16c0 pid=0x5dc vendor=āwww.fischl.deā product=āUSBaspā ā
Itās strange because I didnāt change anything. Had it working on Windows 10 some days ago. Tried two different drivers, both with the above resultā¦ Donāt know if I need a new programmer or if itās a software/driver related problem.
I get that from time to time, usually just unplugging/replugging the usb programmer fixes it for me.
I have been tweaking my light canon, and Iām ALMOST at 1.5Mcd!!!
Sooo closeā¦ 61000 lux at 4.9m = 1.46Mcdā¦
I will post pics when I get to the magical 1.5!
I tried that a couple of times. Donāt know what else to try. Will ask google, hopefully right questionsā¦
Nice achievement Enderman!!! :+1:
USB 3.0 ports give us trouble with printers and such at work sometimesā¦especially with Windows 10ā¦Iād make sure itās plugged into a 2.0 port.
Itās USB 2.0. Donāt have a 3.0 port on this machine.
thanks!
I am very excited lol
Iād be quite excited too, Enderman! Must be a crazy beam you got thereā¦ :smiling_imp:
OK. I managed to get my programmer working again. YAY!!!
Iāll explain the steps I went through in case someone has a similar problem it might helpā¦
- Opened the device manager, found two USB Universal Host Controllers show the yellow exclamation mark sign (Code 43 error)
- Right clicked and deactivated (not deinstall) both of them
- Restarted my laptop
- Went back to the device manager, right clicked and reactivated them again
That did the trick. So if you experience similar issues, I hope this helps and itās as simple as that for you.
Gonna flash some drivers now. WOOHOO! :partying_face:
1.5Mcd!!! :exclamation:
Waiting for the pics! :+1:
Truly awesome Lux numbers, looking forward to seeing pics of the light and set up.
For what itās worth, Canon is a registered trademark of a camera company, your use of the word would be cannon, as in long thrower. (just a bit of OCD coming through, right is right, after all)
Wouldnāt a light ācannonā project a large diameter beam, like the old aircraft search lights? Maybe I need coffeeā¦ sorry
Wow!! Congrats on this site unseen project! Try a reading at 10-15 meters, betcha you will get over 1.5 easy... I think every light I've tested at 5m got a nice little bump at ~12m, plus it's actually more accurate.
I agree he meant ācannonā (simple typo) but ācanonā is not just a camera company:
Sk68 died a smoking blue death (single mode with liion cell) so I pulled out the pill and reamed the hollow shell to the OD of 1/2ā copper pipe(.625ā). 
And made up a copper insert. 
I might go old school and direct solder an XRE since a sinkpad would raise the die out of focus.
Thanks guys 
I actually made a mistake in my calculations, thereās a thing called etendue, and due to this the formula 1/r^2 doesnāt directly apply to my light because of how it is almost collimatedā¦
The farther I take the measurement from the light, the more lux @ 1m I get.
The correct way to calculate it is by using this tool: Candlepower & Divergence Calculator For Uniform Beam Lights or you can do a bit of trig to manually figure out the distance behind the lens
This means that Iāve always been underestimating my measurements, and I might be getting actual candlepower in the tens of millionsā¦.
I need to make new measurements at a longer distance, and measure the diameter of the spot to figure out the real number, so hopefully in the next week I can actually tell you guys the real numbers
Yes, but there are so many ālight cannonā named lights I wanted mine to show up on google search, so I named it ālightcanon flashlightā so that it is pretty much the first result
SHHHHH letās pretend it is what I said above