Well for me (and it seems not picked up by any1 ) this would be the light Old Lumens wrote about he wanted to see made.
He said:
Big reflector
Long srk style tube for 2*4 cells
The 120mm is much bigger then the 86mm he used in a build
This is where 4S2P comes from
And because of the massive heat sinking XHP could be driven hard
And well pencil beam, I’d like marker beam (you know sharpies being thicker then pencils )
Also kicking it back in I’d like to round up the sale price to the next x0 or x5 to get at least $5 so $5-$10 per light sold for Justin and Valerie.
A smaller lens based light would be another project (shame MEM zoned out) and yeah would like to see it and even do it but not until the Q8 is in the hands of all that want one and this giga thrower is at the stage the Q8 is in right now. So if people want that faster I’d day, go for it and put me on the interest list
Then we have two extreme directions in this discussion:
1) The ‘OL way’: big reflector big output led (think XHP70), with consequently a fair number of batteries and large capacity heatsinking
The OL way is heavy and will not have massive throw, you will stay well under 1 Mcd. But the big bright hotspot will be very impressive.
2) The maximum throw way: big reflector small die led (think XP-L HI), can be driven with two or even one battery, heatsinking is very modest.
This can be made very compact, the size is the reflector and not much more, and be featherweight. The throw with a 120mm reflector can be up to 1.5 Mcd. It is an extreme pencil beam!
Depending on pricing, at least one and if possible one as host (I would one with XP-L HI IF over 1Mcd - but I still would want one with Oslon Black Flat for max throw, minimal usabilty and max fun)
I really don’t think so. Nobody would pick up a chunk of solid black metal with a seriously big polished reflector on the end and associate it with some cheap yellow plastic “lantern”. And if they do then I don’t value their opinion very much.
Yes please! This is what I’m hoping for out of this project. Dedomed XP-G2 lights are really impressive on the meter. I know; I’ve built a few myself. They’re not very useful though. I want a super-thrower that’s actually got a useful beam at a distance and that requires just a bit more “width” and overall output than a 900 lm, 1 Mcd XP-G2 would be doing.
Plunger and pencil beam. At 500m+, I don’t want any beam width lighting everything up, just enough to light up a 3m wide area, if that is even possible.
Just a note, when I say “width” I’m not talking about spill. I don’t want spill either. Spill is the death of a thrower because it messes up your night vision too much.
Maybe a bad example, but here’s what a de-domed XP-G2 looks like in a much smaller host (XinTD C8):
This one “only” does 158k cd, or about 795m throw. In a bigger reflector that would be even tighter with even less spill. Which is awesome to see, but not very useful in my opinion. I’d rather have the thicker beam of a larger emitter assuming the reflector can be done right so as to avoid spill.
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This one “only” does 158k cd, or about 795m throw. In a bigger reflector that would be even tighter with even less spill. Which is awesome to see, but not very useful in my opinion. I’d rather have the thicker beam of a larger emitter assuming the reflector can be done right so as to avoid spill.
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Agree, but the question is: what do you want to light up at what distances.
Maybe some of the math buffs in this forum could give us a rough estimate of spot diameter, depending on led used, based on the 120 mm reflector?
) this would be the light Old Lumens wrote about he wanted to see made.
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