The Solarstorm Raging revisited. Now with Beam Shots! - Finished

Some nerve wracking stuff doing 5 at a time, geesh! Nice job Justin!

The OP is updated and there are beam shots in Post 1

Sweet mod Old-Lumens!

Glad you kept at this light, turned out great!

This will get one lucky owner! :)

Extremely cool. That garage door shot must have hurt a little bit.

The King of Nichias? This looks like it is the brightest light you have built by your island shot and my poor memory. Its amazingly creative as usual. Is the stock driver used?

Beautiful !!!

Big 219 lights! Just read yesterday that Eagletac made one, and now an OL special! Nice solder job!

How did you keep all the LEDs perfectly centered in the reflector while you soldered the stars to the pill?

Congratz on the success!

Congratulations again, I’ll try something with mine

I put solder on the back of the stars first, then aligned them and soldered them to the plate, by heating from underneath. Then I added the leds and heated just enough to get them to flow on to the stars. It was nerve wracking to say the least.

Yes, I used the stock driver. From reading threads in here, it seems the stock driver was only putting out about 1.4-1.5 amps per led and that was just what I wanted for the Nichias.

Thanks for the praise and support everyone. I have been working on the momentary switch wiring today and I'm just waiting for the switch to come in next week.

So I guess you had to align them with the reflector on, and then lift it back off verrrrrrrry carefully, and hope you didn’t bump anything.
I’ve always wondered what would happen if you used solder paste on the stars, and left the reflector in place to keep them centered. How would the heat affect the reflector? Would the lower melting temp of paste have any effect?

I would not want to leave the reflector on due to the chance of hurting the plating. In theory it might be OK, but I didn’t want to risk it. With the regular solder on the stars, I just put a dab of flux on each one, so they would “stick” to the plate when I lifted the reflector off. It worked pretty well. They aren’t perfect, but better than I had hoped for.

+1. Exactly what I was thinking.

Nice torch even nicer house :slight_smile:

What diameter is the driver and how is it held in?

Roughly, 47mm and it’s glued in. Sits down on a shelf and glued in place. Yep, they used silicone on the original and I used AA this time.

Glamour shots in Post #1 and it's done. Stayed with the stock switch as I could not get the momentary to work all the time with it.