Talk about future projects and donation topic

Can’t help much with the development, but at least can support with this.

Thanks
Will put it all in a spreadsheet
Notes for which project are clear and those donations will be put at the project
Awesome checked the email thread PayPal is making now with “you got money” and it is at 20 in such short time, wow

Sent.
Good work !
Slow

Sent, great works. Thank you.

Just made a little contribution. Appreciate all your efforts. Thanking you and all the development teams.

Wow, OP updated!
heartwarming to see the notes and the donations, thanks for the trust and kind words!
+1 OP updated again, thanks

Awesome job folks, thanks for remembering those of us who do not mod!

ken

Wow, thanks again!
OP updated
so kind to read the notes, truly special :blush:

Sent, thanks for making a thread!

Awesome idea!

Since I have virtually no relevant knowledge or expertise to add to these projects (other than what I’ve learned here), I am happy to contribute monetarily. I just wish I could send more.

What a great community!

EDIT: I may be the only one, but I would love to see an upsized 26650 version of the Q8.

Yeah the Q16, 4*26650 2S2P (20700/18650) driven, quad XHP35(hi) 10K lumens monster
Boosting from 2S to 12V should again result in great BLF tech :slight_smile:

A boost driver would be VERY expensive in such a setup and would not really translate well to any other light.

Take the Texas buck as an example. It costs about $25 right now and it is easier then a boost driver as it only pulls about 15A from the cells. The boost driver will need to pull around 20-30A from the cells in order to boost the voltage. This will require even larger and heavier duty parts which means they will cost even more.

Plus shrinking down the design to anything smaller would be about as likely as the Texas buck getting shrunk much. Technically possible but it would vastly reduce the power it could handle and cost the same or possibly more due to needing even higher end components in the smaller form factor.

Not to mention that using XHP50.2’s make more sense in such a setup, that should be able to reach 15k lumens with ease and you could use either a simple FET driver with 2S input or an expensive buck driver with 4s input and 2s output.

Well if Nitecore can do 4*XHP35 we must be able to do so too right :smiley:
But it’s not a project planned soon so who knows what LEDs and driver parts are available then :wink:

And second post updated with;

Well let’s broaden the topic and make it also a space for future projects a d debate about them.

The project list:

Q8, soda can light, 4 3V LEDs, FET+1 Narsil driver, 4P 18650.
nearing completion

GT, monster thrower, 1 12V LED, 1 or 2 X 4S 18650
Design housing send to contact, second iteration driver board desiged, first proto driver to be made.
Long way from completion

FW3A, single 18650 EDC triple, ! not open for debate yet !
in the works of starting, driver clear, talking to Chinese party to have it made,

Q4
Baby Q8, 4 x AA OR 14500 (challenge here is driver)

Q16
Quad XHP35HI from 2S2P 26650
Challenge here is driver

Zoomie , nothing clear just that a nice zoomie is something I like to help create.

For the zoomie why don’t we actually work with Jaxman and make the Cometa the way it should have been done in the first place?

That could be a good idea, but would a bigger lens, maybe a second for more light ot not be interesting?
you know cramp some innovations in there? maybe have the small lens close to the LED do the moving so the head holding the big lens can be part of the cooling system. a hard driven XHP35hi in there…. just thinking out loud here.

Let those ideas keep percolating mate, I’m sure you’ll come up with something special by the time the GT goes into production.

I like the sound of the Q4 and zoomie.

I’d love to see an 18650 RGBW colour mixing light. Similar functionality to protomachines, but at 20% of the cost.

thanks!

stephenk, you mean a light with three colored LEDs and a way to control each one to get the preferred colors?
That would be MELD software right?
Funny story, when Thorfire send me the S70 and S50 just bought the Uniquefire 1401. I asked Throfire to make a light like that (4 individual small reflectors with a LED, using 3 primary colors and a NW LED in the 4th space.
For the reason of people being able to blend colors to their liking. They did not understand what I was talking about, heheh had a hard time grasping the notion of a soda can light, lol we showed them what a soda can light it didn’t we :wink:

Yes, something based on MELD software with RGBW emitters and the ability to colour mix, but “off the shelf”, would be very popular with light painters. Not sure how popular it would be with the average flashaholic though.