How do you all mount your reflectors?
I have an XHP70 mounted on a sinkpad and some various Ledil reflectors (XHP70 chosen from there website)
There is no specific way, or locating pins to centralise the reflector or mount it. Do you use a glue or is there something missing I need to source?
Cheers people.
Dave.
Depends. Some just need an insulator (paper, PETE, etc.) and you just lay the reflector over the LED for the right spacing. Other times, you actually need a spacer to have the reflector sit a fixed distance off the LED. Yet other times, you’d need an adapter ring to convert from one size to another (eg, to use an XP-sized LED in a reflector made for an XM).
I got an F13 that has an actual spacer. Focus is okay, but a little fuzzy and a bit ringy. So I punch out the spacer and use an insulator instead, to let the LED sit a bit deeper in the reflector. Ecch! About the same focus, but horrible colors: a lemon-yellow hotspot and corona, and a horrid Angry Blue™ spill. Backing it out with the spacer again let those colors “blend” better.
Point being, sometimes you just have to try a few ways and see what works best.
If the hole’s definitely too big for the LED, ie, there’s “wiggle room” around it, then you definitely need a centering ring. That’s the only “must”. Other than that, it’s just experimenting.
Thanks for the reply.
Pretty sure I can machine something up on my lathe. All the reflectors I have are these. I just bought a bunch of them to try and it said on the Ledil website XHP70.
So in some instances then they could be just sat above the sinkpad barely touching it? Just a question of focus as you said.
Should be able to. Worst case, wedge a few fat o-rings between the reflector and LED to test the focus as you loosen/tighten the bezel to squish down on them (ie, the o-rings act like springs pushing back).