BLF style 18650 1s thrower( poor mans Olight M2X)

Hey, i think i have the same one, only the handle is a little different.
I also have a smaller one.
A ‘must have’ tool i.m.o.

By the way, a while back i saw you have the same 80 Watt soldering iron as i do.
You know, the one (from Conrad?) that gets crazy hot. :smiley:

Just checked drawer and I also have something similar for accu drill

I will sacrifice one reflector and drill that circle completely in hope that reflector will catch more light.

You will not gain much output with that, because there is not a lot of light coming from the sides of the LED.
Besides, the distance to the reflector is very short there, so it will mainly add more warm white to the corona.

And I will get rid of that corona around hotspot and get pure hotspot with spill only?

https://www.fasttech.com/products/2183/10017678/4128400-0-14mm-hole-saw-reamer-for-r-c-models

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3mm-13mm-Bridge-Pin-Hole-Hand-Held-Reamer-T-Handle-Tapered-6-Fluted-Chamfer-Reaming-Woodworker/32802774988.html

I’m not sure how to get rid of the corona.

I have the fasttech reamer from above and it does not work as nice as the PB design, it has less edges in the round (hope that makes sense), and the angle is steeper so the edge of the hole will becone far from perpendicaular to the surface.

That aliexpress/banggood one looks good (but is it?)

Yeah, it’s okay. Good enough for aluminium.

The one from FastTech is more for chamfering the opening to reduce wear and tear on the wires, not really a reamer. I have one and it works ok for doing the chamfering, need a longer more gradual taper for the reaming effort with better cutting edges.

Jos, I found the PB Swiss Tools Reamer on Amazon for $68!!! Yikes! Bet it DOES work well, sure better!

Edit: That’s the 5-20mm , pretty sure you have the 2.5-12mm version that is about half that cost. Looking at one for $33. :wink:

It does the job…

Plan on buying an XHP35 HI mounted on a 25mm and just flatten the shelf. I did an XPL HI on a 16mm with a nice amount of throw but the donut hole is pretty bad.

I may of cheated here. If I could learn how to add extra chips I’d be real happy. ltp tried but I still failed miserably.

This is a 26mm MCPCB with dedomed XML2. I machined .25mm from the base of the reflector. On assembly it made no difference whether the isolator was installed or left off. The same petal pattern was still there.


You are kidding us right? :slight_smile:

Lux results since we have only 2.8A draw around 150kcd?

Machining is cheating :slight_smile: Just kidding…

I have forgotten the calc for working out throw. If you can refresh my memory I’ll take a measurement.

Because of the design of the light it is near on impossible making a pill with better heat sinking abilities. The OD where the 26mm MCPCB sits is 27mm which just fits in the head and as the battery tube and pill overlap there is no room to move there. The holes for the led wires were drilled on an angle to not get them to break through the side of the pill and to get to as close as I could to the outside edge at the top.
If the end user wants more light I’ll have to either improve my soldering or put a fet driver in at the risk of blowing the led.

An fet driver won’t blow the led Steve. Like, man if that were even possible I’d have 500 blown emitters. :stuck_out_tongue:

At 5M, exactly, your meter reading is multiplied x25 (5 squared, or distance squared) for candela or of course K is thousands, hence the Kcd reading. Multiply the cd x4 then take the square root for a calculated throw in Meters.

So, from 5M, if your meter reads 100 and your meter is set on x10 (100x10=1000), then multiply 1000 x 25 for 25,000 or 25Kcd. Multiply 25000 x 4 = 100,000 and the square root of that is 316 M throw. There ya go, easy peasy. :wink: And I even know that from MEMORY! :open_mouth:

Hmm… I’m running 3.88 Amperes on an XP-L HI V3 and the light barely gets warm, and i’m using (the remains of) the stock pill.
But, there is a good heat path from Led board to the big head, because everything is tightly screwed together.
I also tested it without reflector and bezel, the LED board didn’t get significantly warmer (to the touch) than the head.
My stock Convoy C8 (2,8 Amperes XP-L U6, no pill) gets warmer.

I still have nightmares from when I was building the C83 and how many leds l blew up before anyone knew what the problem was. :person_facepalming:

Thanks for the formula. :+1:

An XP-G3 can take direct drive from a single cell at up around 6.6A, as can the Nichia 219C (top cells might be too much though). The XHP-50/70 and MT-G2 can take direct drive from 2 cells with the XHP-70 and MT-G2 easily doing 12A on top 26650’s.

The XP-E of course has issues with an FET driver. The XP-G2 will limit itself through a high Vf to around 4-4.6A. A buck driver from Richard can do 5.5A to the XP-G2 through 2 cells.

Edit: To make it easier to stack chips on a Qlite style driver, remove the spring first. Then you’ve got a clearer shot at the legs. Put the spring back on when you’re done. I tend to do my stacking on the inside, starting with the one where the negative leads comes off and then going across to the other side as those two have the least room on that one leg near the MCU. Then do the two that are opposite the MCU and it’s fairly easy. Stacking another row on top of all those is fairly easy too. That’s what I typically do, go with 12 total chips on the inside, leaving the original 4 on the outside where the spring is. A 1.5 to 2mm bevel tip on the iron helps here….