5th Annual BLF OL Comp Build. Can A Flashlight Flash? The Naked Truth. Update post 151. Night shots added. 16.12.171

Well done! :+1:

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I’m not sure about that but if that is the case you can have all the proceeds. :slight_smile:
Your comments are humbling. :blush:

Awesome works there Sir.
The copper inlay part amazed me early on. Love the radius curve and taper at the head @ switch button area. Uniform knurling…
Some skills shown.

Awaiting more pics.

Thank vw pieces. Are you waiting for night shots or something else?

night shots.

I’m charging batteries at the moment for a shoot out but will have to wait for the weekend for this to happen as its still not dark here when I go to bed.
I need a new spot for long distant beam shots as my last place is now out of bounds.

An awesome feat of craftsmanship - well done! :beer: :beer:

Do those batteries yell out “Charge!” when they are ready to use? :person_facepalming:

OMG!

Saturn V thrusters !

Think Steve might have a fascination with space somewhere in the back of his mind. I posted in the build thread that the one with the wood accents(post 125, last picture, far right) looks like it might be something from the TV show “Lost in Space”.

I wish they did. The bludgers have been taking lessons from the sacked assistants and do this most of the day. :stuck_out_tongue:

This light wont be taking of with anything like the thrust from those monsters. :slight_smile:
I heard yesterday that moon travel is back on the agenda in the States.

I’ve still got to set the driver up to its final settings. I’ve set the step down for a conservative 50 degrees C. In a room at around 25 degrees C it runs for 12 minutes before step down. This is with the 3 leds running at six amps. The light feels slightly less hotter than this temp so will play with the settings more at a later date.

Like many kids my age at the time Lost In Space was cutting edge TV in all its black and white glory. :slight_smile:
I dont know how they put up with that mischievous Mr Smith for so long. :heart_eyes:

On a side note I got onto Google earth and sussed out a new place around the corner for night shots. On scoping the area out 520 meter pictures should be possible. All going well I’ll get there Friday night.

You’ve really outdone yourself this time. I don’t even know what to say. It’s beautiful!

Also, it’s powered by Spartans. That brings back memories…

Thanks TK. When I saw the Sparton wrappers at FT I knew straight away they were the ones I was after. :slight_smile:
I wasn’t sure how they would line up in the battery tube slots as they were roughly marked out with a texta in the mill and machined to nothing in particular. :person_facepalming:

I was carrying out some extreme testing last night with the leds at 6.6 amps each and the temp cutoff set at 80 degrees C.
At the 22 minute mark the light just switched off. Head temp was around 60 degrees C.
It appears theres a short somewhere. I’m thinking that maybe a fan wire melted through as I have no idea what temp rating it was.
Needless to say a strip down is required. Hopefully the driver and leds are ok.
Up to this point I was really happy with the way the torch was performing as output had only sagged around 10%.
Lumens output is right up there with the Q8.

I know the feeling :person_facepalming: , didn’t replace the fan wires with silicone did ya?
Other than that sounds great :slight_smile: