I like how my tint-mixed quads turned out. I havenāt gotten a triple to look quite right though.
It should be doable with XP-L HI and a frostic optic, but itād probably be easier with three high-CRI Nichia 219c emitters instead, since theyāre less tinted to begin with. Perhaps 4000K, 4500K, and 5000K. Together they should look pretty good, but I havenāt tried it.
Iām 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 thatād make it a lot floodier. 10511 might be okay if we donāt mind having a few different colors of mild artifacts.
Ah, see, I wouldnāt have thought of the 3 Nichiaās, nice call! Would love to see that even if I have to weld em in there my own self.
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? Thatād be coolā¦
Not without some big changes to the hardware and firmware. Itād need a new driver, a new MCPCB, and a bunch of new code. Itād 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.
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 ātooling marksā for some grip. The polished lights feel oily in hand and are a bit tough to hold onto, or can be. Just a thoughtā¦
Edit: for clarificationā¦ 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.
Sounds like one of the major signs of starting to gain mastery ā 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 Iām making. I ended up using a chord of four notes a half-step apartā¦ 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 worseā¦ but it can, on occasion, be useful.
I have always had this thing about polished. Since I was a kid, it was kind of an obsession. Once, when about 10, I got ahold of a piece of 2000 grit wet/dry sandpaper and wondered what my fingernails would look like if I polished off the fine ridges and such. So on one hand I used the paper and got the fingernails mirror finished, essentially. Then it was embarrassing dealing with the questions about why I āpaintedā my fingernails! lol Havenāt done that again, but still, I like polishing things for the bling effect. But, after making a few lights with āblingā I discovered it made them difficult to hold. So, compromise was needed.
Finding how to make it look qood while working can sometimes be quite a chore. How many lights do we have with fins on the head, adjacent the reflector, but not so much where the heat is going, below the emitter? Aesthetics can be a bear, function can be ugly, I applaud all the manufacturerās that figure out so many ways to make so many modelsā¦
Has anyone managed to get an update on the progress with this? There is a large and growing base of support now, it would help if we had a regular status report to confirm that we are heading somewhere and not just treading water.
A prototype was sent out a month ago to the team working on this and theyāre fine tuning various things like the button and the driver. As for the design, Fritz15 said heās not 100% satisfied with it so current shape will no doubt be balanced out.