I would make the reflectors bigger too. The outer size of the reflectors would be bigger than we can see, but there should be some place to use.
Or better, make the reflectors from one piece of aluminium with maximum reflector size without overlapping.
The Texas Avenger driver will not work in this light due to the dual switches and dual emitter sizes. Astrolux is probably combining 2 different drivers into a single pcb or else using 2 pcb stacked to drive it.
I believe Astroluxs driver design will be kept secret and not made available to anyone. Sorry.
On the other hand, if you want to forget about powering the xhp35 and just use the 70.2’s, then the current TA driver will work fine for that. It will only use one of the switches.
One reason why it is less necessary for the MF03 to maximise reflector size by overlapping them is because of the huge center XHP35 that takes the primary care for throw: the DX80 has no choice but to maxise mini reflector size for throw.
Of course you can get more throw nevertheless by increasing reflector diameter (and a bit of length)…
I do think it is aesthetically very pleasing like this, and the beam will also be artifact free. :sunglasses:
Yes, the price would kill this idea. I have thought about it while I was writing my idea.
Its “still” an Astrolux Flashlight with low price and therefore this is not doable.
Although a single piece design is good looking, does it actually also have a benefit? If you have overlapping reflectors sure, but with non overlapping reflectors what are the advantages?
Ya, at maximum output stated in cree datasheet, it will be much higher. I was being realistic to use slightly higher than typical spec so that the flashlight won’t overheat too fast or step down too fast.
Ah I think I get it. Even with discrete reflectors you should be able to further increase diameter looking at what it is now. But I can imagine if you want to squeeze out the last millimeter of space between two reflectors you need to switch to a single design.
This is not true on this size of the driver it would be no problem using 2 MCUs to control each LED type seperately, with upcoming Boost driver on Schokis boost chip next month we can also deal with 12V XHP voltage from 2S battery pack
Assuming it will be using 8 18650s and with the best cell being able to output 30A, maximum current will be 120A with 2s configuration. This means 15A max per emitter= more or less 65.000lm at the absolut limit.
All 8 cells would be depleted in just 5-6mins!
Better 12x 21700 cells for double runtime :money_mouth_face:
Exactly. You still have a little gap, pfff… like a millimeter or so. If you want to get rid of that then you could look into a single piece 9 emitter design. But that’s most likely not worth it (besides looking darn good).