CRX Stratis Lumina - 2017 5th BLF Scratch Made Light Contest Winner

The hole in the plate will be about 30mm, optic 24mm, LED’s 3mm each with 34mm x 2mm glass on top.

Brass insert tubes for the charge indicator and momentary switches installed today, 3mm OD, 2mm ID.

Shown here is also the copper heatsink block for the charger board.

Using 2mm solid acrylic rod to carry the charger indicator light to the exterior.

Hole slightly countersunk, brass tube epoxied in place and acrylic rod fixed in place.

The end of the rod at the charger LED's is sanded rough to reduce the TIR effect and carry more light.

Same technique for the top brass inserts with a temporary light source to show effect through the acrylic rod.

Today's Tune:

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Nice. :+1:

Looks really good already :+1:

Thanks very much guys :BEER:

More switch details, a piece of 2mm acrylic rod cut to size and a few layers of aluminium tape around it for a guide for the GITD resin mix then kapton tape around that to create a well for the resin compound, this serves two purposes, keeping the plunger from falling out and it will also be internally charged from the UV array/ quad emitters.

Tape removed and the resin filed to shape.

Some copper around the acrylic for a very snug fit inside the brass switch slide tube. Silicone grease will also be applied in the tubes.

GITD effect on the switch.

These are such great ideas, and your pulling them off very well.

You must have good eye sight or good glasses. :slight_smile:

Beer Goggles :smiley:

Got the tritium locator switch made for the quad emitters with a 12mm x 2mm ice blue vial and 3mm copper tube plus some of the other fun stuff done :-)

Charger light operation.

Red LED test.

Today's Tune:

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This is coming along nicley CRX.

Is there any chance of a picture of you switch assembly against a ruler? I know this is tiny but pictures dont really show that.

Centimetres :wink:

Thanks. Puts it into a better perspective. You wouldn’t want to be building that switch button with beer goggles on. :beer:

:smiley: True

Watch out for those corners in your pocket looks sharp.

as a real EDC in a future build you could size it to just leaving the chip on the credit card exposed (mounted to the back side of the light). then you could just pull it out and use it as a credit card also.

Too Cool!!!

Started work on the driver and wiring today.

I made a driver housing from two brass 18mm extension rings with holes filed out.

The battery compartment is lined with 1mm thick felt to give some clearance from the copper mid layer heatsink.

A test of the main driver wired up to my test LED and showing the cyan GITD backed red LED's :THUMBS-UP:

Charger board and red LED test.

Reds connected to mercury switch so when the light is held face down or thereabouts the reds illuminate automatically.

Still some tweaking to do on the switch positioning but it works :THUMBS-UP:

Today's Tune:

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Looking at all the wiring has just made me hungry. I wonder why?

Spaghetti junction :slight_smile:

Hey, I'm back! Did you miss me? :))

I took a little break from this build after a problem with some wiring, this is what 28AWG silicone wire and a mercury tilt switch looks like after 20 or 30 Amps go through it :FACEPALM:

It is a very scary moment indeed when your build decides to spontaneously combust when you're not expecting it and don't have tools near to cut the battery wires :))

This was after I had it potted, there was an intermittent fault somewhere in the red LED circuit so I ripped it all out and rewired it a bit better this time :THUMBS-UP:

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This was really demoralizing and I didn't seem to have my usual motivation for it so I decided I needed a rest from building the main light and got to thinking about the spare pieces of wood & copper.

You know how I like to make lights in sets... ;)

So I decided to make a companion mini version, introducing the Mini SL, this will also give you an insight into what the Stratis Lumina will eventually be like :-)

I did not take build pictures as I just wanted to get it finished & working in a few hours but I basically used the same techniques as shown previously.

The Mini SL is powered by a 200mAh lipo cell, has a TP5000 charger board set to 100mA charge current and triple XP-G2 S4 3D front emitters on a Noctigon MCPCB and two red 3mm emitters on the bottom with two momentary switches on top.

Showing the cyan GITD behind the switches & bottom LED's.

Size comparison to it's big brother approximately 69%, it measures 59mm x 38mm x 12mm.

In hand.

Compared to some other stuff.

Can't really see it too well here, but showing the red charging indicator light, turns green when done.

Operational.

I hope you enjoyed this wee shiny update :THUMBS-UP:

Today's Tune:

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