Talk about future projects and donation topic

An airgun is a lot cheaper to plink with now days sadly. Even .22 is not what it used to be. Although these particular cartridges actually came from my paintball days. I had a few pistons and other guns that used 12 grams and ended up buying them in bulk to save money.

My 5.56mm AR-15 with silencer is a lot more fun and more practical but sadly for the cost of a single round of ammo for it I can fire off a hundred BB’s or several .22 rounds.

have a small tube running through the heatsink that you can spray an upside down can of computer duster through (r152a…. 1,1, difluoroethane) to allow for a crazy direct drive turbo hehe.

Brian

Good to see the fund broadened to driver development :+1:

One-button UIs like Biscotti are very handy for blind people like me. I wouldn’t have access to anything like the range of options I do, if it weren’t for the driver developers here on BLF.

Paypal sent :slight_smile:

Glad I can help in some way. Keep up the great work!

There was a discussion on various battery pack configurations and how some are more efficient than others.
I got interested and wanted to quantify what is more and what is less efficient.
I modelled battery pack volume vs capacity.
Assumptions:

  • there’s 0.5 mm between battery and flashlight body
  • battery tube is 0.75 mm thick
  • if there are several batteries, there’s 0.5 mm gap between them
  • with xx650 batteries, battery tube doesn’t fit xx700, just xx650. DQG Tiny is an example of a design that gets shorter with shorter battery.
  • 2~~, 6~~, 8~~, 14~~ cell packs are 2-cell long
  • all battery tubes are round. Rounded-triangle or rounded-square would be more efficient in 3/4/6/8 cell configurations, but that’s not what I calculated.
    Results:

Legend:
N V -> volume with N batteries
N E -> capacity with N batteries
N ee -> efficiency (mAh/mm^3) with N batteries

I wonder why 3x18650 isn’t used more. It’s quite good.

Where do you show which shape on the graph goes with which battery size?

OP updated

Wow, that is a bit too much information, I will check it out later when there is more time, seems interesting

My spreadsheet skills are too low to visualize this. The way I set it up even hints in the spreadsheet are useless.

What I do to locate a certain point is 1) identify the data series by looking at clear outliers with the same symbol (which is a column) here. 2) look up the size in the column.
I do not suggest others do this, but rather I’m looking for suggestions. I can upload the raw spreadsheet if anyone is interested.

I should have noted: Pareto-optimal (size vs capacity) packs are bolded. There are quite a few…

No need. All I meant was a list like: “square = 18650, triangle = 18350, circle=16340, etc.” for the graph.

I’m not sure what do you mean.
Though I should have noted one more modelling assumption: battery tubes are round, regardless if they contain 1, 3, 4 or 7 cells in crossection.

The Courui D01 uses 3 18650 cells (parallel) and feels really nice in the hands IMHO

And yes please say what the shapes represent, that would make it easier to understand :wink:

In that graph above, you have blue squares and yellow triangles and red triangles, etc. Which cell does each of those shapes represent?

I may draw the shapes tomorrow to make it clearer, though my paint skills are terrible.
And I see that symbols on the 1st chart are different from ones on the second. Will make a cleanup tomorrow.

Now I just don’t even know what you’re talking about. Draw the shapes to make it clearer? I just want to know what those symbols represent. You made those graphs with the symbols already there. But what do those symbols stand for?

I added a legend to the charts, normalized symbols and updated the previous post. Hope it’s clearer now.
I added 18350 too, it took pareto-frontier from 1x14650.

Thanks Agro!

And OP updated with the latest donator and spending.
Text for spending:
30Q cells, 16,87 (received $16.70) by DBSAR to order 4 high drain 30Q cells for cell vent testing and take them through the worst people can do with them, very useful information with the ever growing list of lights with cells in series.
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explanation, DBSAR is about to make videos for a new round of cell vent tests. It is funny and educational to see him abuse old and weak cells in a controlled situation. However with series lights like the GT and possible future projects people will use new and/or high drain cells. So many new members, so important to see what happens in worse case scenarios with good cells.
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another nice thing, with Thijsco and Cawi we are now sketching how the Q16 could be made. We called the Q8 a “SRK type monster flashlight”, well lets say the Q16 is supposed to become a monsterly beast of a flashlight :smiley:
More to follow when we have things clearer but no worries, yet again a driver with challenges that is already clear to me while there has been NO talk to driver gurus yet :wink:
In due time we will start a thread on it, first getting the Q8 to you guys of course, till then the Q16 is going relaxed and slow behind the scenes.

Maybe somebody knows some links to “water proof” fans?
6volt fans
Size max 80x80mm
The higher the ipx rating the better but must survive use in rain.

I don’t have links, but what about “drone” motors? Are there any drones that are made for weather?

Ah that is some great out of the box thinking!