CRX Stratis Lumina - 2017 5th BLF Scratch Made Light Contest Winner

You must have good eye sight or good glasses. :slight_smile:

Beer Goggles :smiley:

Got the tritium locator switch made for the quad emitters with a 12mm x 2mm ice blue vial and 3mm copper tube plus some of the other fun stuff done :-)

Charger light operation.

Red LED test.

Today's Tune:

www.youtube.com/embed/JBUK9CGqsbk

This is coming along nicley CRX.

Is there any chance of a picture of you switch assembly against a ruler? I know this is tiny but pictures dont really show that.

Centimetres :wink:

Thanks. Puts it into a better perspective. You wouldn’t want to be building that switch button with beer goggles on. :beer:

:smiley: True

Watch out for those corners in your pocket looks sharp.

as a real EDC in a future build you could size it to just leaving the chip on the credit card exposed (mounted to the back side of the light). then you could just pull it out and use it as a credit card also.

Too Cool!!!

Started work on the driver and wiring today.

I made a driver housing from two brass 18mm extension rings with holes filed out.

The battery compartment is lined with 1mm thick felt to give some clearance from the copper mid layer heatsink.

A test of the main driver wired up to my test LED and showing the cyan GITD backed red LED's :THUMBS-UP:

Charger board and red LED test.

Reds connected to mercury switch so when the light is held face down or thereabouts the reds illuminate automatically.

Still some tweaking to do on the switch positioning but it works :THUMBS-UP:

Today's Tune:

www.youtube.com/embed/PkuwIWxxHyg

Looking at all the wiring has just made me hungry. I wonder why?

Spaghetti junction :slight_smile:

Hey, I'm back! Did you miss me? :))

I took a little break from this build after a problem with some wiring, this is what 28AWG silicone wire and a mercury tilt switch looks like after 20 or 30 Amps go through it :FACEPALM:

It is a very scary moment indeed when your build decides to spontaneously combust when you're not expecting it and don't have tools near to cut the battery wires :))

This was after I had it potted, there was an intermittent fault somewhere in the red LED circuit so I ripped it all out and rewired it a bit better this time :THUMBS-UP:

www.youtube.com/embed/oM6Rb8z2ugk

This was really demoralizing and I didn't seem to have my usual motivation for it so I decided I needed a rest from building the main light and got to thinking about the spare pieces of wood & copper.

You know how I like to make lights in sets... ;)

So I decided to make a companion mini version, introducing the Mini SL, this will also give you an insight into what the Stratis Lumina will eventually be like :-)

I did not take build pictures as I just wanted to get it finished & working in a few hours but I basically used the same techniques as shown previously.

The Mini SL is powered by a 200mAh lipo cell, has a TP5000 charger board set to 100mA charge current and triple XP-G2 S4 3D front emitters on a Noctigon MCPCB and two red 3mm emitters on the bottom with two momentary switches on top.

Showing the cyan GITD behind the switches & bottom LED's.

Size comparison to it's big brother approximately 69%, it measures 59mm x 38mm x 12mm.

In hand.

Compared to some other stuff.

Can't really see it too well here, but showing the red charging indicator light, turns green when done.

Operational.

I hope you enjoyed this wee shiny update :THUMBS-UP:

Today's Tune:

www.youtube.com/embed/bjS-dGRmugU

Of cause we missed your daily posting from our favorite CRX.

Love the current testing on the tilt switch. I always wanted to know the current handling ability on these switches. Now we know. :stuck_out_tongue:

Knocked this up in a few hours? As only you can. :slight_smile: :beer:

Away for a week, & I miss all this action :partying_face:

This is looking very sweet indeed! :beer:

Nice work CRX. Love the smaller size of the miniSL.

LOL you’re insane !
“Yeaa well I wasn’t in the mood to work on my main project so I just made a smaller version of it to occuy my hands :partying_face:
Man, I love tht one, like really ! Really well done :+1:

Love the mini.

I don’t quite get it, but it’s beautiful!

You have many friends in the same boat. :partying_face: