No time right now for a solid write up, but once I get the new cells in (my previous cells were from a P85, no silicon in the anode that I’m aware of) I’ll be doing a bunch of tests and can do a better write up then. I’ll also dig up the old 0.0v test cells and see how much they’ve degraded over the past year.
I might attempt more destructive tests on the new batch too. (I say attempt because past attempts with a jumper cable were just that, no fire, just a really hot cell, and one that made a “click” noise and went open circuit)
I bought 8 30q cells but accidentally ordered flat top. Hoping I can make them work. Figure a little magnet or something should do the trick but I’m hoping the carriers wind up working with flat tops. Oh well, live and learn I guess, got a great price so worst case I’ll get 8 more and repurpose these.
The way a carrier is loaded pretty much excludes a magnet top, it’s been said that the isolation disk can be removed to make flat tops work but you’ll have to be sure you observe proper polarity when inserting cells, it’ll be on you if you invert one accidentally.
Managed to get out for some GT Proto beam shots last night
First the map for distance
Then for the control shot
Now the beam shot, using the same settings as the control shot
Just to show that it really was getting there, a crop at 100% of both images
Sorry no comparison shots as it started to rain and I got out of there while I was still dry
Cheers David
Edit:- There was a half moon out, ‘sky glow’ from the city only 7~8km away plus the lights on the pier so a real life situation
Those are awesome shots Pommie. You can see the pylons beside the road or pier which ever it is all the way down. This thing really is a monster thrower. Thanks for sharing them!
Rick
It’s my understanding, ccc, that the carriers have been modified and the driver contact board is being adjusted to suit… the team doing the hover propulsion unit has already gone on vacation so that might be a while.
Teacher, if my son was given transport duty of such a light, the global scientists would think that our planet was going Pulsar or something, the spastic flashes of intense beams would fluster them all. (He cannot be still to save his life!)
Hmmm, so we have beamshots up to .71 miles, somebody needs to venture into the realm of a mile+……
Edit: My TN42 at 1 mile across the lake…
For clarification, I highlighted the spec sheet on a tripod and my wife standing beside it in a pink blouse with black slacks…
The spec sheet, illuminated at one mile by the TN42
Same spec sheet illuminated by my 200mW green laser…
Unfortunately, my wife didn’t know how to operate the Canon G1X camera in manual mode so she didn’t get the shot’s in focus. I was fit to be tied, after all the set-up, but it is what it is…
