2mods for the XHP70 - Initial Video added - One light is done & BEAM SHOTS ARE UP IN POST #1 - Second light works, but still...

nice work once again! looking forward to Beamshots. :slight_smile:

Its nice to see all four leds light up. Me not being the brightest guy here found it easier to program the driver hooked up to a single led on the bench before the light was assembled. I'd be interested to here your thoughts on the driver itself.

Can’t wait for the beam shots… it’s going to be awesome! :beer:

BEAM SHOTS IN POST #1

George makes very good drivers and the absolute most complicated set of adjustable parameters I have ever seen. 32 printed pages of information on the three main groups and the 14 separate adjustable parameters. Great for a young genius, but very bad for an old fart man like me, who can’t wrap his head around all that stuff and who can’t “quick press” fast enough to execute the steps.

O M G :open_mouth:

great beamshot location - great pictures!

One of the best beam shots I’ve seen. Veeeery bright and looks to have decent throw too! Can’t wait to see the sp03 version

Yep, I like the location and it's different than the norm. I do believe the SP03 will not be as bright. Even with 9 amps per led, I think this 4-up will give more total lumens, but I am hoping the SP03 will give more throw, due to larger reflectors.

One thing for sure is that whenever I do these monsters, I just don't appreciate a single led light any more. The HD2010 with an MT-G2 was what I carried every night, but now I don't even want to turn it on.

Once you’ve seen an entire football field light up like daylight, everything else is just wimpy.

Ever since I have joined this forum I have noticed an utter disdain for multi emitter lights greater than 3. Probably a throw back to the early days when the brightest LED lights were those 9 emitter 3xAAA ones. Back then as is the case now, the most effective way to get a lot of light is to use a lot of emitters.
Maybe now attitudes will change and it will be OK to build these kinds of lights again.

Edit:

I say this because, in effect, OL just built himself a 16 emitter light. :wink:

Great work :beer:

With these new larger LEDs arriving, it’s becoming ‘Bye-Bye to my budget’ Budget Light Forum again… :money_mouth_face:

More photos in the OP. This thread will probably sit for a month, as the custom driver that RMM just designed, has to go thru Oshpark and then to him, so a good month, knowing how Oshpark works.

I agree and then again, I don't. Multi emitter lights are great if you; have a lot of money for components, have a huge heat sink and great heat transfer, have tons of high amp batteries and have a sling to carry the heavy beast. They are super bright and if you do want to light up a football field, a huge building, a cave, or just a huge area, they are great. But... they will never have long run times and they are not very practical or compact.

I do think everyone needs something like this, just to be able to show it off. Imagine this in a football stadium? Just before the cops took you buddy away. (here hold this for a minute). Well, you wouldn't want to get arrested yourself would ya?

Might hold some type of world record for hand held led lights.

If I send it to China, it could be a 1,000,000 lumen light!

Holy crap, my jab just hit the floor! Awesome work!

Talk about a Wall of light…… That thing is a monster…
Great work O-L…

wow! and i am excited to get my host and parts to build a single XHP-70 light in the mail. that is a amazing amount of light

Wheres the shadow in the middle of the hot spot? All I could see was white spots in the center of my eyes. Can you please put a warning up next time?

There is a shadow in the middle of the hot spot. I can see it on low, but on high it’s just so darned bright that you cannot see the shadow there.

I should not have to warn you, by now you should know the risks or coming to one of my threads.