Here are some pictures going with Nicolaas’ aspheric converted TN42 mod.
I used a precisely sanded to thickness spacer, made of soldered brass rings, clearing the led wires, for the collar to sit on. The spacer was glued to the shelf around the ledboard with Arctic Alumina Adhesive, the collar was precisely centered with the led on lowest setting (and sunglasses on), then glued on the spacer with Norland 64 UV-setting glue. The already glued collar was further secured with large blobs of high temperature hot glue.
Nico is holding the TN42, there’s also a 1 Mcd BLF GT, a 470 kcd 3xdedomed XM-L2 modded Shocker, and a hardly visible 160kcd neutral FT02. The pylon is at a bit over 100 meter to the base, also over 100 tall.
The other pylon is at 700 meter, I did not have a zooming camera (just my phone), but you can see that it is illuminated.
11km away, huh? You two must keep working on throwers until you can bat-signal each other
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I like the idea but I see two problems:
1) too many high-rise buildings in the way
2) it would require over 30Mcd throw capacity, that would require an aespheric with a 1 meter diameter main lens…….
So, I probably will have to look for other means to achieve this I guess……
This is my kind of WDYMT post. Sheared domes, bad re-flows, shorting wires. Keep up the mediocre work it makes the average modder like myself feel better sometimes after seeing 10 posts in a row of flawless carbon fiber wraps, custom lathe/mill projects, hand carved pills/centering rings.
Yesterday, like two hours and six or seven attempts to swap an emitter in an AAA sized light that should have taken ten minutes.
Yep this puppy had just about it all that contactr mentioned…
I was almost at the stage where I was thinking the greenish tint wasn’t so bad after all and I should’ve just left it be
Swapped out a Luxeon v2 for a Nichia 219C.
Oh gosh, I just mean visible cloud-bounces. Like the bat-signal. At 11km you're starting to get into earth curvature issues for straight line... And probably finding whatever the laser version of BLF is. I don't try to find it because I'd end up with blind for sure
Yep, me too, just yesterday tried to build a lighted tail, there’s 6 0603 leds on it but I spent 11 leds (some projectiled on the floor and never found back) before I found there was a short somewhere in the Oshpark board that I could not fix. So I will start all over again with a new board, and probably another 10+ leds before it is finished. :weary:
I think the "what did you break today" thread is super important for newer modders to see, especially if people like CRX, djozz, MRsDNF post there. When they bust something, it helps them feel better that these well-known modders break stuff too.
