I wanted to make this reply just for clarification.
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I went back and checked closely so I thought others might be doing the same. Sorry if it seems like Iām high jacking your thread Moose. Fantastic work BTW. I get the impression this light will have even more heft than your OL Tribute lights.
Correct pp on the way its assembled.
As far as heft goes this light should be a lot lighter in weight than the OL tribute light. Everything is lighter when its naked. :laughing:
The fan housing will be a lot lighter than what it is here. I have no idea what the final shape will be but a lot of material has to go.
I commented somewhere before the comp started I could build a light and finish or build a light I wouldnāt finish. I chose the later knowing there would be a good chance I wouldnāt have time to build it. At the time I had this idea in my head and wanted to build it so here it is.
If I hadnāt gone to China as well I may just have finished it.
Thanks for the comments guys.
Iām just a little excited as the light is at this point finished. Iām posting up some of the last build shots and later Iāll get the glamour pictures up.
The driver is powered up to set the parameters and power output before assembling into the torch. The driver is a Taskled H6Flex.
On assembling the light I was having trouble running the fan wires in the groove with the led power wires which by the way are 18 AWG, so decided the easy way out was to run them in there own groove.
The power wires for the leds coming out of the head along with the fan wiring. I would have liked to power the fan from the driver but this was not possible due to room restraints and assembly issues.
In the front two reflector thread holes in the top plate you can see the channels where the wiring runs to the third led.
The driver has been assembled into the head, switch wired up and the driver board used for the positive power to the driver soldered on.
And finally where I seem to always have issues with blowing leds, hit the switch and three Luminus SST-40 leds erupted into a dull glow without blowing up. Yahoo says I.
Pretty sure you can be considered the best custom flashlight maker in the world. One day, maybe a hundred years from now these lights will be auctioned off at Christieās Auction for tens of thousands of dollars.