What did you mod today?

Made some SST40 led testing so I ended up with a Convoy C8 with TA17 driver, SST40 N4 BA dedomed led, AR coated glass lens, bypassed springs, 8,6A current in turbo, 2000 lumens, 136 Kcd and 738m throw :smiley: In a C8 it is insane!

Beamshots Zozz? Sounds like a pretty awesome smallish dazzler…

I got 3 of those on the way from KD. Those are pretty nice #'s, specially the lumens for a dedomed LED that throws almost as good as the best dedomed XP-G2's, I think. Didn't know you can get that many amps out of one. Might just put them in a SRK. What do you think of the tint after dedoming, and the beam pattern?

Hhmm, for that price, might order a bunch more.

Ohhh - and these are "only" N4 bins. There's 2 higher bins listed in the specs, but who knows if they will ever happen (N5 and P2).

Just a really crap phone pic I have. ISO3200, S: 1/17s, F: 2,20

Dang y’all!
Now I too have an order from KaiDomain… where does it ever end? lol

The dedoming wasn’t clean as on cree leds but the tint doesn’t shifted very much. Overall I like it. And it is cheap.

Which method did you use in the de-doming process?

Upside down on some wires in regular 95 octane petrol. It took 3-4 hours and a bit of picking with a needle and falled down. After that cleaning with alcohol rinse and a needle under magnifying glass.



First attempt at XHP Soup, HOT fluid de-doming (tried 2 different fluids, the second fluid performed better) XHP35’s 50’s and 70’s all meat no veggies! :smiley:

Brand New $8.00 Garage Sale Crock pot, so far soooooo gooooood! :wink:

I have seven SST40’s and a bunch of the W2’s from Kaidomain http://kaidomain.com/p/S026966.Cree-XP-L-HD-W2-1B-White-6000K-6500K-LED-Emitter-1-pc

Along with more top Binned XHP35’s HI E4-1A’s and Old Style P2-1C 70’s to do next……with a stronger fluid……

Like most days, I modded code today.

I made sort of a cooperative multitasking toolkit with event callbacks and a finite state machine, to make it easier to create e-switch light UIs.

It works on tiny45 and tiny85, and it should be reasonably easy to add support for other MCUs later. Most of the hardware details are abstracted out to allow interfaces to be portable across different types of drivers.

I call it Spaghetti Monster.

I probably shouldn’t be allowed to name things.

You are probably right, you probably shouldn’t! :stuck_out_tongue:

I still go with Bistro mini…. :smiley:

I giggle a bit whenever I encounter the line which declares “volatile emissions”.

In biology you are allowed to name a new species if you have discovered it, policy is that you do not name it after yourself.

What, exactly, are you implying here?

Hrrmph.



No implications, just some information.

(unless your real name is bistro or biscotti :expressionless: )

I may have also just cloned ZebraLight’s UI in the time between my previous two comments.

I call it DarkHorse.

It doesn’t have memory which lasts across battery changes yet, but that’s next on the list. I just need to make an API for eeprom access…

At some later point I might make an improved version and call it DarkerHorse. But for now the only improvement is replacing “6+ double clicks to configure secondary level” with “click then hold to configure secondary level”. It was a bit ridiculous having to click 16 times to switch between 10 lm and 34 lm.

Waiting for TK to develop the perfect UI, it’ll be called Major Deity, we’ll know it as Perfection 101. :wink: She’ll have it read our mind through our retina, a simple stare into the lens and it’ll KNOW what we want from the UI and respond accordingly. Then the switch will be a fingerprint reader in the battery tube, contact with our hand will allow the light to AUTOMATICALLY turn on/off and adjust level according to our thoughts…

Magical? Naw…. Major Deity unleashed. :wink:

Brought the little Reaper in on Aug 11 so the sun wouldn’t burn it any more, looking like this…

Built the new COB fixture and set it up on Aug 21, looking like this…

And today, after just 5 days under the COB…

You can calculate how many kWh a scoville unit costs :nerd_face:

Hahahah, probably won’t be much, dividing anything by 2.4 Million greatly reduces the average…