Actually shot 1174 images day one and 1990 day two. 
Hans und Frans hands.
I have been going through this sort of thing for almost a year now—shoulders neck headaches hips elbow numbness down legs to feet
The only thing I’ve found that helps — chiropractor—3’ massage roller on floor—walking—Plenty Of Stretching
I was a frame carpenter most of my life—getting old is hell—I’m only 54
OK PUPS… listen up! Quit having birthdays right now! It gets no better down the road. !! :person_facepalming: Don’t ever say you weren’t warned!!! TL
It’s not the birthdays TL, it’s the mileage in between. We don’t need time travel, we need genetic rewind/replay.
The problem with all this getting old talk—I finally got enough knowledge/ experience in my little brain—now my body is giving out—LOL
Amen! :innocent: TL
Can’t they just clone me and give me the younger/newer version?
I rewired the DBC-05 Triple XHP-50.2 with Turnigy 18ga leads. This was not easy, but I was hoping it’d be worth it. The previous leads were 20ga Teflon coated wires.
While I was at it I enabled moon mode so now I have 7 modes. 
I charged up my somewhat beat up Basen’s and got…
0.06A for 47.61 Lumens
0.15A for 147.66
0.47A for 431.94
1.41A for 1235.1
5.98A for 3881.25
12.07A for 7032
21.74A for 10,764
More amps, but a bit less output. Hmmmm.
So I tried a pair of Sony VTC6 right off the charger…
22.78A for 10,936.5 lumens
Then I charged up a brand new pair of LiitoKala 26650’s…
23.12A for 11,488.5 lumens after having my clamp meter on AC for a bit before I figured that one out…
So, again fresh, right off the charger, the LiitoKala’s…
Start 11,523 lumens
30 sec 10,660.5
60 sec 9,004.5 and the cells were down to 75%, the big chunk of copper was HOT!
Larry Niven wrote an anthology called The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton, mainly about what becomes euphemistically called organlegging (the bootlegging of organs). Set after transplant surgery(including the brain) is commonplace but before organ cloning becomes a viable option there’s a black market in organs(already true) and kidnapping for organs rather than ransom is the rule. In one of the tales our hero is hot on the trail of one such wealthy body snatcher. In another a young man convicted of speeding gets the death penalty with the state collecting his bits as compensation for all the trouble he has (or might yet) caused.
Maybe you could mount that light to a tripod and put a remote trigger on it and use it as a camera flash. Lol
That was a fun book. I enjoyed some of the ideas about how to use a phantom arm… like feeling / fixing things inside enclosed spaces, or when he was bound and unable to move at one point so he lured his captor close and reached into his chest to grab the guy’s heart.
Niven had a lot of fun books, and that wasn’t one of the more well-known ones, but it stood out since it was so different than the rest.
Kind of like Dale’s custom build here… it’s one of a kind. And if you’re not careful around it, it may well give someone a heart attack.
Rethinking this one, I happen to have 3 of the XHP-70.2 N4 5700K in hand, mounted on SinkPAD’s. I checked how they would fit this reflector and found I have some white plastic cover pieces that would protect the substrate of the emitter and allow the dome only to show in the reflector. So, since the 20mm SinkPAD has to be ground down on one side, I’d have to remove these emitters from the MCPCB and do the grinding, then re-flow the emitters and mount them in the copper pill. Would it be worth it? Well, that’s the question of the day.
I recently rebuilt a friends SupFire M6, removing the 70’s I’d put in it earlier and swapping in the new 70.2’s. It now makes 13,558.5 lumens from 3 emitters. It uses a TK61 battery carrier with a custom tube made by MRsDNF, I didn’t pull the brass rods out of the carrier as I’ve done in the past, but maybe it’d do even more with 18ga wire there? At any rate, since my light here is a 2S tube I might see more lumens from a pair of Efest 20700 or the Sanyo NCR20700A.
Not a terrible amount of work, but is it worth it?
Ok, so I figured if I’m going to re-do this build I may as well address the reflector while I’m at it so I just ordered the other triple reflector that they listed after I got the one that’s in it. Also ordered 3 new XHP-70.2 emitters in P2 5700K tint. I’ll have to enlarge my reflector opening as this new one is 65.5mm diameter. It’s also taller, but that shouldn’t be a problem as my bezel has some shift room while maintaining fit and finish.
I went ahead and used DHL so perhaps it won’t be long getting these in.
Edit: Also found and ordered a pair of iJoy 21700’s that are supposed to be capable of a 24A continuous discharge with a 40A pulse. We’ll see…
Cool.
Mundane and boring by your standards CRX, wish I had your creativity…
Certainly not mundane or boring, you’re crazy builds are the brightest there are
Are you finding the 21700 to be better than the 26650?
It’s an addiction, always looking for the ceiling. Sometimes I wish I could be more happy with a beautifully crafted light that performed decently and not always have to have “more”. There are a few lights in my collection that aren’t pushed to their limits, but it’s very few.
Like the Emisar D1, I really liked it when I got it the other day, especially with the short tube. The combination of the fatter head and short tube was really neat, but I just had to put a 20700 tube on it and change the Mosfet and push push push. Am even entertaining putting an XHP-50.2 in it with 2 18350’s, but then I’d have to lose the driver and I’m really having fun with TK’s Anduril. See? Always wanting more, different, unique, and just never fully satisfied as a result. It’s taking a toll…
Anxiously watching this one!! My guess is you will ALWAYS want more, different, unique….but thats what makes the world turn. Just do it! You’re so creative… it will all work!!! TL