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Interested too !

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I have built lights like this… I really like how they turn out…

+1 from me

Nichia option is also a good idea. :wink:

Which XPL HI and optic do you think could accomplish this? It’s hard to even find 3 different XP-L HI leds as choices from vendors or manufacturers. I would totally consider this but not even sure it could be sourced easily to mod.

I like how my tint-mixed quads turned out. I haven’t gotten a triple to look quite right though.

It should be doable with XP-L HI and a frostic optic, but it’d probably be easier with three high-CRI Nichia 219c emitters instead, since they’re less tinted to begin with. Perhaps 4000K, 4500K, and 5000K. Together they should look pretty good, but I haven’t tried it.

I’m not sure if 10511 is frosted enough to make the tint-mixed result look good. It might be necessary to use 10508 or 10509, but that’d make it a lot floodier. 10511 might be okay if we don’t mind having a few different colors of mild artifacts.

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Another guy late to the game…
Please add me for one piece, thanks.

Put me down for one, please.

I really need to remember to get in on these interest lists earlier.

I'd like to be added to the list. Thanks.

Nice :sunglasses: add me to the list for one please.
Thank you.

Ah, see, I wouldn’t have thought of the 3 Nichia’s, nice call! Would love to see that even if I have to weld em in there my own self. :smiley:

Might be totally off for this thread, but is there a way to run triple channel to the 3 tints so there could be some selected mixing? You know, dial it in? That’d be cool…

Not without some big changes to the hardware and firmware. It’d need a new driver, a new MCPCB, and a bunch of new code. It’d either sacrifice low-mode efficiency (and moon) by being a triple-FET design, or would sacrifice the high modes by being a 3x2x7135 design, or would need a bigger MCU and probably bigger driver to handle 6 channels instead of 3.

ad me to the very late list please :smiley:

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one for me pls!

Yeah, but I hope it’s not bead blasted. Shiny looks so much better IMO…
1st version looks like a high end light, 2nd version looks cheap.

Sorry, forget I asked… :wink:

On the shiny vs bead blasted, after having made a few lights from scratch and in the beginning going for a polished look, I am now learning to make a final pass that leaves “tooling marks” for some grip. The polished lights feel oily in hand and are a bit tough to hold onto, or can be. Just a thought…

Edit: for clarification… when I was first learning to use the lathe my challenge was to get a smooth near polished cut, running the feed by hand. When the gearing is used to feed at a constant feed rate there are micro lines showing the advancement of the cutting tool (most of the time) Now I am learning to replicate that by making a faster final pass to get those lines, instead of laboriously cutting slow for a smoother finish.

add me to the list please. I like shiny but…

Sounds like one of the major signs of starting to gain mastery — after learning the rules and how to do things right, moving on to learn when and how to break the rules for added effect.

Just a couple days ago I had reason to break the rules in a song I’m making. I ended up using a chord of four notes a half-step apart… like C, C#, D, and D# all at the same time. Normally this would never happen because it sounds shrill and dissonant and one would be hard-pressed to find a chord which sounds worse… but it can, on occasion, be useful.