Anyone done this?! Ok I really should say a quasi-thrower ‘cause it ain’t’ ever gonna be an Astrolux MF02, right? I mean cell lights AFAIK have always been essentially mules.
Anyway I sumway got all jogged up on this subject from the USB charging chatter on Vinh’s Project Genesis thread.
I got sum spare almost obsolete by today’s cellphone standard cellies laying about. Was wondering watt if I first somehow swapped out the LED and slapped on an Osram Flat White, then I attached some kind of Magyvered lens in front of it, then I maybe make the whole thing zoomable, and then ABRACABRA I gots me a 1,000 lumen, 100Kcd, cellie MONSTER!
Or is just the Osram swap in a plenty good enuff start to a stubid useless insane project?
C’mon. I don’t think even CRX could pull THAT off. :laughing:
I wouldn’t even tempt Enderman though. He’d prolly come up with sumthing that had a lasered LEP module pushed by 12 x flat 21700’s.
“OWWWWW! Turn IT OFF GD it, Enderman!” :person_facepalming:
PSS. More stubid rambling. I even got a few of those dinky flip phones laying around. Imagine the freaked-out looks on people’s faces when ya flipped open and fired up a quad Carclo XHP 70.2 version. Hmmmmm. Carclo? Yeah that’s the ticket for a lens. :student:
Well, the sky is the limit, i suppose.
You can buy high discharge LiPo pouch cells in all sizes.
Build around that with Aluminium or Copper, and you can do anything.
A thrower will be more difficult though, since you need a large round head for that.
But maybe you can do something with a quad of 1mm² White Flats behind a quad of 20mm aspherics.
Hmmm…
Yeah, why not use 4× 20mm aspherics in a row, and make it zoomable?
But then it will still be at least 25 × 85 mm (give or take) and you could use 21700’s for that…
I nearly put a pair of 5630’s on the back of mine, but decided it was too much hassle.
This is why i considered it though:
Yeah, the internal charging circuitry decided to call it quits, so i McGyvered a little charging board on the back…
I had to “lift” the minus with a diode because the battery is full @ 4.4 Volts.
You can see the added diode right next to the USB port.
Adding LEDs would have meant adding a switch too, and some heat sinking for the LEDs.
I didn’t like that idea so i set it in UV curing glue as is.
Correct if I’m wrong butt I assume they still use some kind of capacitor. If not, disregard. Yer prolly right they don’t for safety idiot proof reasons.
I think they pulse a fairly high current through the LED to make it flash for a picture.
Probably much more than when it’s used for video recording or as a flashlight.
It would get too hot above, say 200mA when it’s lit for a longer period of time.
Back when I was in high school (2003) I hacked an antique Alcatel One Touch 311
I added a 2000mCd white LED which pulled 20mA from the vibration motor… I’m not deaf or anything, I just wanted to mod something…
Anyway, back then there was much empty space behind the back lid.
