It was a stiff iron pin from somewhere, chromed at first, but I heated it to orange colour with a blow torch to make the bends, then the chrome flaked off. Actually I think I could just as well have used a common nail.
I could use a 35mm, anyone know of one? I’ve got the Nichia NVSU333A in an X6 at ~ 3.6A.
Tonight I revisited my Jax X6 Hunter to fine tune focus from the MT-G2. Pulled the brass pill, removed the 20mm Noctigon and re-flowed 2 copper discs under a 25mm MaxToch mcpcb while mounting a new MT-G2. Using a tab off a large Omten switch, I extended the pads away from under the reflector. Now the reflector (having already been modifed with a square aperture to encompass the MT-G2 substrate) sits flat on the mcpcb and the hot spot is tight and clean. 11.5A at the tail from a pair of Basen 26650’s for 4571 lumens out the front.
hmm, you make me think, I like the idea of a quad light with a random bunch of coloured leds and the simple intl-outdoor colour driver, how about one nice high CRI white led (that is the practical boring me), a 365nm UV with small ZWB2-filter in front of that sub-TIR, and a weak-driven PC-amber led for the cosy illumination, and a cyan led, just for the colour?
I finally got around to building my triple S2+ using triple noctigon mcpcb and xpg2 LEDs I picked up a long time ago.
A few more springs bypassed…
And I put even more finishing touches on my MTG2, 2D Maglite… Getting the reflector low enough after widening required beveling the edge of the rebel pill. Focusing is not perfect, but not terrible. Really liking some 3000lumens in a beautiful blue Maglite.
Convoy S2+ with a V6 3D and Dr Jones 17mm H17F w/ lucidrv2 - 7135 + FET brass button. So far 4 nice modes. Still playing with the driver.
I took a Warsun MX900 and used two tubes with Sanyo/Pan 18650GA 3500. Added 6v N4 1C XHP70 and a 22mm MTNMAX 1A-6A Buck Driver 5v-18v. Very low moon, low, med, and high. Tried the new lux meter from one foot to two foot. First time user. The moon shot was so low I took the pic looking straight at it. Lux numbers: 5-<1, 320, 1010, 1750. It got warm but I used it about 15 minutes. The moon went down as did the other levels with long use. It is much better than it was with the two modes as I remember them. There was some cheap cream under the aluminum star. I tried some gold thermal grease with the copper sinkpad. I may try the XHP 50 later (6V) or the 3B. Pics below. Thanks to everyone for your patience. Much to learn. Next learn how to program UI and Imgur for pics to get rid of the slideshow. Need more parts! lol.