I just had an Epiphany—-I recently had a new Modad system installed at my camp—upon looking at this diagram I realize i can use the unused upper half for a perfectly calibrated HIGH LUMEN measuring system—I’ve attached a diagram—Teacher this method seems much easier than yours—i just have to go in the front yard and remove a couple clean out covers
Wow, I stopped getting emails about replies to this thread for a few days and it blows up naturally. :person_facepalming:
I skimmed the last few pages of posts but am not going to bother to respond to all the posts as most things have been answered by others already.
I will start watching this thread again now that I know there are new posts.
KG, while I am happy to help you work on my sphere, what you have now is clearly no longer my sphere. I think it would be best to move it to it’s own thread if you want help dialing it in. There are many people on here (including myself) that are willing to help educate you if you are willing to learn.
Wiping contact points with alcohol really works miracles. Today I received my Mini GT. At first I kept measuring about 500 lumens with every battery I thought I got a dud. Then I wiped down the springs with alcohol and got 1,140 turn on lumens! This worked several times on the TC20 when turbo stopped working correctly.
Sorry my friend… pictures are a strict no - no. This method is such ’secret & refined double naught spy type stuff’…. I dare not share pictures or video at this time.
Tex, I just now opened the sphere and took a try tonight with lights. I saw it was reading high on many higher output lights. Logged into this thread and now see this. What do I have to do to get the updated filters? I never saw any in the mail so maybe you missed me. Thanks much.
It is possible I missed someone, I think I was 1 or 2 people short when I sent out the discs as I could not find the payments.
I do have 2 discs left, although they are from the “old” batch that read a bit differently.
So you will most likely need to do a little trial and error with different orientations on the discs to get the correction factor to the desired ~0.68.
I would just pick a nice stable light or 2 and take measurements before and after the discs are installed until the correction factor is as close to 0.68 as possible. You can add some reflective tape or electrical tape to the inside of the first bend if needed to fine tune the readings.
PM me your address or you can send a small payment to my paypal (it can be .10 cents so I can use the paypal shipping system to print the label).