About a year later, I was finally able to convince Illumination Machines to let me have a demo. It was scratched, dented, and appeared to have a couple defects, but is still a beauty to behold. I lost a very special family member during the course of the host build here. I just haven't had the heart to pick it back up since. I do want to finish it eventually.
Wow, might be worth building a light around that reflector. The quality issues are compounded the bigger the reflector is, just like aspherics, so size I'm sure comes with a cost.
Why the need for such a wide reflector? Wouldn't it work nice to have a loooong deeeep narrow one?
Imagine a flashlight made primordially of a couple stacked together tubes: one for the batteries, let's say 4 26650s in series, and the other for the lens/reflector/emitter/driver, so 9+" deep reflector without issues. :-)
LoL!
How about a full spectrum laser? I swear I've heard something like this somewhere… maybe in another forum. ;)
Oh yeah, I agree. I had negotiated them down to a great price way back when, but they would not budge on quantity. To give you an idea of its performance, here is a quote from what they told me about it:
"Yes, we have a special Luminus CST90 reflector which achieves >100cd/lm and is an ultra-specular reflector with no facets for military spot light applications."
I’m definitely interested. Hi CRI thrower sounds awesome. I’d be nice to beat 1 million candella. Reminds me of a spotlight I used to carry in the car that plugged into the cigarette lighter.
For other comments - the intent of the project is max throw, so depth in almost insignificant compared to width. Depth limits the width of spill. It should be a thrower LED - XHP35 HI, XPL HI, possible XP-G2 but don't think that would be an option unless we can do a true factory dedome, or if an XP-G3 HI comes available. Going with an XHP-70 on SMO would have the hole, less throw, but can be considered. To me, the best stock emitter choice would be the XHP35 HI, but would love to see 1 mcd broken with a dedomed XP-G2, or possibly dedomed XPL W2/W3. A couple of manufacturers are doing or did factory dedoming, but the XHP35 HI and XPL HI are kind of killing that direction.