Possibly wouldn’t even need carriers. Bore the battery tube with 2x ~26.5mm wide openings side-by-side. Have a rotating tailcap (Olight x7 style) so the springs stay in the correct place.
Not sure if I’m right but running 4 would be 4s1p,
running 8 you’d have 4s2p???
If you look at the weight of the head you are probably right. With the 3D CAD program it’s possible to calculate the weights of the pieces. The battery weight of one 18650 is between 44 and 48 gram.
That sounds overly complicated for a budget light…
The tube would also need to start as a solid chunk of aluminum rather than just an aluminum tube which is cheaper and easier to finish.
Also, added weight.
Dunno about complicated as such, but yeah I agree on the aluminium thing. It’d take a huge chunk to make each one - but think Courui D01 - they must have been chunks bored out. And their price point isn’t premium
Yes thatBoss1 has a nice beam profile and a scaled up reflector like that would fit the render of ar right?
Didn’t hear back from the reflector software peple, but o course t is holida season in the US so all things like that will probably be taken to next week.
I really think we should go with a buck driver or a linear driver like the ld-2.
Do we know what happens when you hook a xhp35 up to a 4s2p setup using a fet driver?
Will it kill the led?
Though I’m not sure if a buck driver has enough voltage overhead to work properly when the cells discharge?
Two 4s1p high drain 18650 carriers in parallel becomes 4s2p. One carrier is fully charged (16.8 volts) and the other is depleted (12 volts). If these two carriers are installed in the GT, the voltage would try to equalize as quickly as possible.
People keep whining about wanting a short tube yet when we showed you want it looks like it was unanimous that it was stupid looking and horribly unbalanced.
The only fixes for this that people had while keeping it a hand held light was to extend the handle to improve balance both cosmetically and weight wise.
Thus putting us right back where we started. If the handle will be extended for balance anyways, why the heck would we not allow it to be used with 8 cells?