Oh god… It looks like somebody hit your Frankenlight with a fugly stick.
Nice beamshots though.
How well did the laptop heatpipe work?
My first DIY light was a 50W / 5,000 lumen space heater that I occasionally used as an inappropriate bicycle light. The little guy was about 10W / 1,000 lumens. Not bad for 2011.
If you look at the right side you could see the reflectors in those three LED wells. It looks like that there is a reflection in the glass of a white background which makes it appear to be tir optics.
We knew it would be 8 x 70.2 and 1 xhp35-HI. Are you surprised by this picture?
How could you make better use?
You can’t make the 70.2 reflectors any bigger. They have to be floody, but at the same time you also can have good throw with the center reflector. I see no other design options.
Can we get the driver specs to Lexel, TexasTA and whoever else can start designing a good driver for this? It can’t hurt Astrolux to share that info since there’s no way they’ll make a driver that will satisfy all of us, probably not even half of us. Play the game Ford does with the Mustang, and get the pertinent info out there so the aftermarket is ready with mods, which will help drive even more sales.
One xhp70.2 makes easily 4000lm, so 32000lm only from the xhp70.2s + 2500lm from the xhp35= at least 34.500lm.
Driven to the max, the xhp70.2s can produce >9000lm a piece (>70.000lm total). Very big moding potential here… I guess the cells only will limit this flashlight.
I would make the reflectors bigger too. The outer size of the reflectors would be bigger than we can see, but there should be some place to use.
Or better, make the reflectors from one piece of aluminium with maximum reflector size without overlapping.