For the noobs out there… I’ve built hundreds of lights, and yet when I built the PZL driver last night it was direct shorted. I gradually removed components until the board was bare and still, it was a direct short! So I started over and built a new one with the same components, this time fully successful. Sometimes things just go wrong, it is what it is. Don’t be discouraged, take the time and check it out, start over if/when you have to. All part of the game.
PZL is a puzzle of a driver, the component’s placement are listed on the mask under the MCU, you have to leave the MCU til last to see where everything goes! lol It has dual channel capability like our FET+1 drivers, but instead of using an FET it’s got multiple 7135 chips. I stacked 4 extra for the little more power. This driver was done by Alex (Wight here ) in a jovial moment.
The other side is 6 of the 7135 regulation chips, the one to the right of “BLF” is the moon channel. (With BLF TDC)
And I have all his kit, so a lot of my Maglight mods are based on stuff from Justin.
There’s been a LOT of people help me out along the way here, don’t ya know?! I think I about drove Comfychair crazy back when we were starting the FET craze. lol
All the buzz these days about price point. Man, I bought that chopped Red 1D Maglight from JayRob making 1000 lumens from a de-domed XM-L! Price point? How about $165! And I LOVED IT! (Ok, I didn’t exactly love spending that much on a flashlight but I loved the light, for sure! It used a 32650 protected cell from NOVAE. Anyone heard of em? All that was available in that size back then…
Edit: Come to think on it, the XM-L was domed, we started de-doming long after that.
Nice work on the Maglite Dale, and those are some good old BLF members you mention! I have been here for 6 years only but the turnover of members has been so fast that it feels much longer.
To your 12,200, right? Between the three of us we have posted 42,200 times! OMG!
(believe me, I know, y’all are contributing worthwhile studies and builds and I’m constantly hammering drivel into the forum…)
If I sat here for a week and went back through my post’s and randomly deleted stuff, would it change my post count. lol Who was it did stuff like that a while back? Why does a squirrel come to mind? Who was it that managed to keep his post count the same no matter what he said? Where’sFoy?
Are you sure those are just 1.5 MW? I thought with 1.5 MW lasers you couldn’t see the beam unless you put smoke or steam in front. The beams from your lasers are very visible in your pictures. That looks a heck of a light brighter than those little 5 MW cat-toy lasers you buy at the grocery store.
@Firelight2, I don’t really think CRX has a 1.5MW laser. Not even a Samsung 30T could output that much power, even 1000 of them would just cut it close.
Also, I think he would’ve left a whole in all of the houses in his neighboor hood, and the FBI and CIA would probably be at his heels.
@DBCustom, back on track, how can you actually survive in this kind of weather? Your energy bill must be ludicrously high, through the stratosphere.
Now, you should probably paint all of your house white, put solar panels everywhere you can, wear white clothes all the time during the summer, have a house isolated with aerogel, and everything possible to make it bearable.
Is that how you calculate the laser CRX? I have a blue one that uses 2 18350’s, pulls … well… all of a sudden I can’t be sure what it pulls, I thought it was 3.3A at the tail… it’s supposed to be like 3W or something. I know it is quite strong, will burn a yellow jacket nest at 25-30’… it doesn’t catch on fire due to the larvae inside but it smokes and smolders. It’s kind of difficult to take the tail current reading because the beam will burn things, guess I can take it outside and lock it down in a bench vise pointed up into the sky, take the reading that way to be on the safe side (provided there’s no airplanes overhead)
My green laser, with a just measured .465A at the tail current draw…
This one is using my DBC-04 battery tube repurposed and with a marine bronze head. I now also have a SS aspheric focusing lens on it.
House is white, I wear cotton, I was born in August when it was 111º, much prefer heat to cold, have worked outdoors the majority of my life. When I delivered building materials, I drank some 3 gallons a day. A gallon of sweet tea to start with and filled up the jug twice with water after that. All in a day’s work.
A very quick reading on my blue laser shows 1.58A at the tail from 2 Aspire 18350’s. So that’s 1580mA, right? So would that be multiplied x 8.4V? For 13272 divided by 1000 for 13.272mW? Or 1.327 Watts? Am I figuring that wrong?
