Yes, the price would kill this idea. I have thought about it while I was writing my idea.
Its “still” an Astrolux Flashlight with low price and therefore this is not doable.
i am happy they used my idea and came out with this.
a lot more months have passed than expected because the found a lot obstacles on the way.
hopefully we see more manufacturers using that design idea - but one has to be the first ;)
thijsco19: Wieselflinkpro:Or better, make the reflectors from one piece of aluminium with maximum reflector size without overlapping.
Do you know how hard and expensive it is to do that?
Might even be impossible.Yes, the price would kill this idea. I have thought about it while I was writing my idea.
Its “still” an Astrolux Flashlight with low price and therefore this is not doable.
Although a single piece design is good looking, does it actually also have a benefit? If you have overlapping reflectors sure, but with non overlapping reflectors what are the advantages?
DENGOH:I thought it was 7 70.2.
This has to be at least 25000lm.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.
Ya, at maximum output stated in cree datasheet, it will be much higher. I was being realistic to use slightly higher than typical spec so that the flashlight won’t overheat too fast or step down too fast.
with non overlapping reflectors what are the advantages?
No strange petal shapes around the edge of the spill. You get a perfectly round spill edge.
hIKARInoob:with non overlapping reflectors what are the advantages?
No strange petal shapes around the edge of the spill. You get a perfectly round spill edge.
Yes I understand. I thought the discussion was about a single piece 9 emitter design; what are the advantages compared to 9 discrete reflectors?
JasonWW: hIKARInoob:with non overlapping reflectors what are the advantages?
No strange petal shapes around the edge of the spill. You get a perfectly round spill edge.
Yes I understand. I thought the discussion was about a single piece 9 emitter design; what are the advantages compared to 9 discrete reflectors?
Less space between the inner diameter of the reflectors and more throw. Better usage of aviable space.
hIKARInoob: JasonWW: hIKARInoob:with non overlapping reflectors what are the advantages?
No strange petal shapes around the edge of the spill. You get a perfectly round spill edge.
Yes I understand. I thought the discussion was about a single piece 9 emitter design; what are the advantages compared to 9 discrete reflectors?
Less space between the inner diameter of the reflectors and more throw. Better usage of aviable space.
Ah I think I get it. Even with discrete reflectors you should be able to further increase diameter looking at what it is now. But I can imagine if you want to squeeze out the last millimeter of space between two reflectors you need to switch to a single design.
leaftye: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.
The Texas Avenger driver will not work in this light due to the dual switches and dual emitter sizes. Astrolux is probably combining 2 different drivers into a single pcb or else using 2 pcb stacked to drive it.
I believe Astroluxs driver design will be kept secret and not made available to anyone. Sorry.
On the other hand, if you want to forget about powering the xhp35 and just use the 70.2’s, then the current TA driver will work fine for that. It will only use one of the switches.
This is not true on this size of the driver it would be no problem using 2 MCUs to control each LED type seperately, with upcoming Boost driver on Schokis boost chip next month we can also deal with 12V XHP voltage from 2S battery pack
Wieselflinkpro: hIKARInoob: JasonWW: hIKARInoob:with non overlapping reflectors what are the advantages?
No strange petal shapes around the edge of the spill. You get a perfectly round spill edge.
Yes I understand. I thought the discussion was about a single piece 9 emitter design; what are the advantages compared to 9 discrete reflectors?
Less space between the inner diameter of the reflectors and more throw. Better usage of aviable space.
Ah I think I get it. Even with discrete reflectors you should be able to further increase diameter looking at what it is now. But I can imagine if you want to squeeze out the last millimeter of space between two reflectors you need to switch to a single design.
Even with separate reflectors of the XHP70s you can CNC the edges off so that their radius is with little gap or overlapping
Assuming it will be using 8 18650s and with the best cell being able to output 30A, maximum current will be 120A with 2s configuration. This means 15A max per emitter= more or less 65.000lm at the absolut limit.
All 8 cells would be depleted in just 5-6mins!
Better 12x 21700 cells for double runtime :money_mouth_face:
Even with separate reflectors of the XHP70s you can CNC the edges off so that their radius is with little gap or overlapping
Exactly. You still have a little gap, pfff… like a millimeter or so. If you want to get rid of that then you could look into a single piece 9 emitter design. But that’s most likely not worth it (besides looking darn good).
This is not true on this size of the driver it would be no problem using 2 MCUs to control each LED type seperately, with upcoming Boost driver on Schokis boost chip next month we can also deal with 12V XHP voltage from 2S battery pack
Wow, this is great news. I did not know you were working on a boost driver.
Plus you can have 2 MCUs? Awesome news!
You never stop amazing me Lexel. Lol
Assuming it will be using 8 18650s and with the best cell being able to output 30A, maximum current will be 120A with 2s configuration. This means 15A max per emitter= more or less 65.000lm at the absolut limit.
All 8 cells would be depleted in just 5-6mins!
Assuming it doesn’t melt internally first. Lol
need more tease?
1st prototye
with upcoming Boost driver on Schokis boost chip next month we can also deal with 12V XHP voltage from 2S battery pack
can you share more info on this Lexel?
I was wondering why there was such a gigantic hole in the center of the head “shelf” of the black MF03. Now We know why…reflector !
WOW King Arthur surrounded by his knights! A flooder with throw! How SWEET is that Thank you M4D M4X for the Picture! AWESOME :+1:
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Lexel:with upcoming Boost driver on Schokis boost chip next month we can also deal with 12V XHP voltage from 2S battery pack
can you share more info on this Lexel?
He’s working on making his own boost driver. Here is what he told me.
For 17-30mm is a Boost driver in development which should deliver 5-6A at 6V and 2.5-3A at 12V
I’m hoping it will be able to run NarsilM, but I haven’t heard back from him on that.