well, i finally took the plunge. I decided to try to machine a complete light up from round stock.
i remember someone here recently saying that when they build a light on machining? that they work on the HEAD, and the TAIL, and do the battery part last.
I went in for the battery tube, figuring once i had that done, the light will sort of âtell meâ how to do the tail and head.
I made the mistake of just âgoing inâ because i was waffling on exactly what i was gonna do.
shrugs
it was either a 12 or a 15 hour shift, i lost track. Back is killing me too, ha ha⌠i cant post pics yet, because I am in the middle of a âboringâ, asd i dont wanna break centerline by unchucking it till at least thats done.
if i âepic failâ, i will dutifully report it for you to have a giggleâŚi figure if this first one âworks okayâ then i will call it a success.If it even looks half decent? i will call it a blazing success (and you will have to hear about it, i can about figure i could get like a little kid if i pull this off.)
it is fun though, diving right in, rolling with the punches.
Yes, I may have been guilty of mentioning the head first, tailcap secondly and the battery tube last but LTP didnât agree with that either. Good luck on the build and give that back a rest.
@ Serp, So it looks like the Nichia has a sharp cut-off above 370nm and the aliexpress led has somewhat higher output towards the 400nm, so some purple glow is picked up by the camera (probably not visible?)
>>Did the S2+ with Nichia have a ZWB2 filter too?
No
The burgundy paint is very bad (nose, beard on the first photo).
Without a filter a lot of extra light. I think nichia was better in this regard. I do not have it right now.
Extra glow removes the ZWB2 filter.
But, for its price it is a good UV LED
Low power at 350mA
I want to put LED in lumintop tool (or made Nanjg driver @500mA for Convoy)
Thatâs without optics. Naked LED on the radiator.
So much awesomeness in one thread! Really inspiring to see the creativity and talent here, hoping to jump into modd'ing in near future but gonna be lots of baby steps to get there...
@lexel & djozz - forgive the ignorance but what's the purpose of blackening dedomed LED's? Wouldn't it be better to have a white/shiny surface for better reflection OTF?
@ZozzV6 - clever and elegant way to add magnets to a light!
I guess it is an autistic thing: a zoomie in spot modus must only show the hotspot and nothing else, no halo around the led, no rings. In actual use some stray light is often very handy but this is a compulsive thing and has not much to do with reality.
OK I figured that was the case (specific to zoomie's) but thanks for confirming!
P.S. Most likely it was an auto-correct thing but I think you meant artistic (and no, I'm not a grammar police just that autistic would totally change the context here...)