Those flashlightlens lenses are that clear I’ve had people putting fingerprints all over them as they dont believe it has a lens on it at all.
Hahaha true
FmC wrote:
I’ve only just caught up with this build. Seriously impressive!!
You are joining in in the fun on the next scratch-built comp, no??
With the pump getting hot, I’m wondering if you could run it at a lower voltage?
Great build!
A lower voltage would reduce the heat, but also the flow rate.
Now that I added a heat path to the body it isn’t heating up
I might join the scratch build contest, however it took a year to plan and design this light, and there are still small things going wrong, so I doubt I would do a project this complex for a scratch build contest.
The_Driver wrote:
Drool!
How about a motorized tripod and a remote control for it?
I bought a tiny tripod for it, so I can point it at different angles easily:
EasyB wrote:
Awesome!
So how does the beam profile compare to a typical reflector light?
Well the biggest difference is it has no spill, also the corona is much less pronounced, so the transition from spot to darkness is a lot faster as you can see in the pic.
The spot is not perfectly round though, not sure if it is my focusing or just the reflector’s precision.
luminarium iaculator wrote:
I don’t really know what to say… Very bright night(so it naturally downgrades cd performance) and just incredible brightness at that distance.
But maybe you’ll really have to stay with black flat. Why?
Djozz also made small aspheric Synios build and while he expected candela boom it even did not managed to out throw good old XP-G2: http://budgetlightforum.com/comment/1281758#comment-1281758
I will need to do further tests with the synios LEDs.
My first test from two days ago didn’t look like higher intensity than the OptoFire but it was definitely not well focused.
First I want to measure the black flat though.
Wooooaaaah! I missed this thread for weeks and was drawn in again by the mention of beamshots. This is fantastic work Enderman! A much cleaner build than the Optofire, and a bigger/further/better beam of course! Very very nice, I’m looking forward to more beamshots and numbers.
That is really awesome work. I love to see envelopes being pushed.
Thank you, that’s what I love to do
djozz wrote:
Wooooaaaah! I missed this thread for weeks and was drawn in again by the mention of beamshots. This is fantastic work Enderman! A much cleaner build than the Optofire, and a bigger/further/better beam of course! Very very nice, I’m looking forward to more beamshots and numbers.
A lot more complicated too!
Same, I’m curious to see how far off my estimates are.
FlashMax wrote:
Great Job man! really awesome… group buy?
Haha thanks, very few people are interested in spending that much money on a thrower
Who knows, maybe in the future I can design a more affordable one that people would be willing to buy.
I mean, silent thunder ordnance sells mediocre 3D printed flashlights for hundreds of dollars when their parts only cost less than a hundred.
I agree Enderman stepped it up bigtime for this build. A little more detail on construction of the cooling system (bending the tubing, etc) would be great. It turned out really well.
djozz wrote:
Wooooaaaah! I missed this thread for weeks and was drawn in again by the mention of beamshots. This is fantastic work Enderman! A much cleaner build than the Optofire, and a bigger/further/better beam of course! Very very nice, I’m looking forward to more beamshots and numbers.
I am a big fan of the Optofire. That light still inspires me to one day try to fab up something all my own. This is on a whole new level of awesome. I love the form factor! I’m thinking a chest harness might be kinda handy, and nerdy cool. Amazing work!
I agree Enderman stepped it up bigtime for this build. A little more detail on construction of the cooling system (bending the tubing, etc) would be great. It turned out really well.
Thanks I am still making small improvements to the cooling system, when it is finalized I will post more pictures of it and explain everything.
Currently the tubing I’m using is too thick and stiff, and is pushing on the reflector too much.
Also there’s a tubing run in the way of removing the reflector so I’m gonna need to split the single copper coil into two pieces so that one is water to the LED and one is water back from LED, instead of how it is now, which is coil to the LED and then extra tubing run going back to the pump.
bigm wrote:
I am a big fan of the Optofire. That light still inspires me to one day try to fab up something all my own. This is on a whole new level of awesome. I love the form factor! I’m thinking a chest harness might be kinda handy, and nerdy cool. Amazing work!
Yeah, it is really unique, very few LED lights that have a recoil reflector, usually it is just short arcs.
I wanted to try new things Also wanted more lux than the optofire without spending $1000 on a custom lens.
The_Driver wrote:
I guess a name change might make sense?
luminarium iaculator wrote:
Yes he will have to change if Synios is not up for the task. Black sun or something… Lets wait and see what Enderman will cook.
Yeah, I think I will need to do that.
What do you guys think of RecoilBeam?
I will no longer put the name of the LED in the name too many possibilities of LED swaps.
Lexel wrote:
CFT-90 driver in development
this is the stage after 90 minutes starting from 2 of my Buck designs to make 8 6A fit
Thanks so much for helping me out in making this possible
I won’t need to have a big ugly external driver strapped to the light to use a CFT90!
Yeah, I think I will need to do that.
What do you guys think of RecoilBeam?
I will no longer put the name of the LED in the name Silly too many possibilities of LED swaps.
RecoilBeam reminds me on those small ultrafire recoil led flashlights (UF 007, 008), and it will mess google search by bringing them into search results.
Those flashlightlens lenses are that clear I’ve had people putting fingerprints all over them as they dont believe it has a lens on it at all.
djozz quotes, "it came with chinese lettering that is chinese to me".
"My man mousehole needs one too"
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I’ve only just caught up with this build. Seriously impressive!!
You are joining in in the fun on the next scratch-built comp, no??
With the pump getting hot, I’m wondering if you could run it at a lower voltage?
Great build!
Drool!
How about a motorized tripod and a remote control for it?
Project Excalibur - Next Generation LED Thrower (UPDATE 2018-01-15: 1.7Mcd)
Portable Thrower Comparison
Awesome!
So how does the beam profile compare to a typical reflector light?
I don’t really know what to say… Very bright night(so it naturally downgrades cd performance) and just incredible brightness at that distance.
But maybe you’ll really have to stay with black flat. Why?
Djozz also made small aspheric Synios build and while he expected candela boom it even did not managed to out throw good old XP-G2:
http://budgetlightforum.com/comment/1281758#comment-1281758
Hahaha true
A lower voltage would reduce the heat, but also the flow rate.
Now that I added a heat path to the body it isn’t heating up
I might join the scratch build contest, however it took a year to plan and design this light, and there are still small things going wrong, so I doubt I would do a project this complex for a scratch build contest.
I bought a tiny tripod for it, so I can point it at different angles easily:
Well the biggest difference is it has no spill, also the corona is much less pronounced, so the transition from spot to darkness is a lot faster as you can see in the pic.
The spot is not perfectly round though, not sure if it is my focusing or just the reflector’s precision.
I will need to do further tests with the synios LEDs.
My first test from two days ago didn’t look like higher intensity than the OptoFire but it was definitely not well focused.
First I want to measure the black flat though.
The OPTOFIRE - 4.63Mcd aspheric LED flashlight The SYNIOSBEAM - 10Mcd recoil LED flashlight List of the farthest throwing flashlights
That is really awesome work. I love to see envelopes being pushed.
Chuck Roxas
Wooooaaaah! I missed this thread for weeks and was drawn in again by the mention of beamshots. This is fantastic work Enderman! A much cleaner build than the Optofire, and a bigger/further/better beam of course! Very very nice, I’m looking forward to more beamshots and numbers.
link to djozz tests
Great Job man! really awesome… group buy?
Max
Thank you, that’s what I love to do
A lot more complicated too!
Same, I’m curious to see how far off my estimates are.
Haha thanks, very few people are interested in spending that much money on a thrower
Who knows, maybe in the future I can design a more affordable one that people would be willing to buy.
I mean, silent thunder ordnance sells mediocre 3D printed flashlights for hundreds of dollars when their parts only cost less than a hundred.
The OPTOFIRE - 4.63Mcd aspheric LED flashlight The SYNIOSBEAM - 10Mcd recoil LED flashlight List of the farthest throwing flashlights
Fantastic build! Put me on the list for two please.
Hahaha thanks
I know you’re joking because you have probably read all the component prices in the budget
The OPTOFIRE - 4.63Mcd aspheric LED flashlight The SYNIOSBEAM - 10Mcd recoil LED flashlight List of the farthest throwing flashlights
I agree Enderman stepped it up bigtime for this build. A little more detail on construction of the cooling system (bending the tubing, etc) would be great. It turned out really well.
I am a big fan of the Optofire. That light still inspires me to one day try to fab up something all my own. This is on a whole new level of awesome. I love the form factor! I’m thinking a chest harness might be kinda handy, and nerdy cool. Amazing work!
I guess a name change might make sense?
Project Excalibur - Next Generation LED Thrower (UPDATE 2018-01-15: 1.7Mcd)
Portable Thrower Comparison
Yes he will have to change if Synios is not up for the task. Black sun or something… Lets wait and see what Enderman will cook.
CFT-90 driver in development
this is the stage after 90 minutes starting from 2 of my Buck designs to make 8 6A fit
[Reviews] Miboxer C4-12, C2-4k+6k, C2, C4 / Astrolux K1, MF01, MF02, S42, K01, TI3A / BLF Q8 / Kalrus G35, XT11GT / Nitefox UT20 / Niwalker BK-FA30S / Sofirn SF36, SP35 / Imalent DM21TW / Wuben I333 / Ravemen PR1200 / CL06 lantern / Xanes headlamp
[Mods] Skilhunt H03 short / Klarus XT11GT, XT12GTS / Zebralight SC50+ / Imalent DM21TW / colorful anodisation
[Sale]
Drivers: overview of sizes and types
DD+AMC based drivers Anduril or Bistro OTSM 12-24mm, S42, 24-30mm L6, Q8, MF01(S), MT03, TN42
Anduril or Bistro 8A buck driver for 20-30mm, MF01/02/04, TN40/42, Lumintop GT, MT09R
UVC and UVC+UVA drivers
programming key
Remote switch tail DD board with FET
Aux boards:
Emisar D1, D1S, D4, D4S, D18, Lumintop FW3A, Fireflies ROT66, Astrolux MF01, Tail boards like S2+
Lexel is another crazy scientist
Funny design ;).
Have you thought about screw terminals for the led leads? Soldering such big wires isn’t always the best way.
Project Excalibur - Next Generation LED Thrower (UPDATE 2018-01-15: 1.7Mcd)
Portable Thrower Comparison
Funny design ;).
Have you thought about screw terminals for the led leads? Soldering such big wires isn’t always the best way.
Project Excalibur - Next Generation LED Thrower (UPDATE 2018-01-15: 1.7Mcd)
Portable Thrower Comparison
The design specification was at least 3×3mm solder pads for the LED wires
That design has no space for screw stuff as it is limited to 5mm total thickness
[Reviews] Miboxer C4-12, C2-4k+6k, C2, C4 / Astrolux K1, MF01, MF02, S42, K01, TI3A / BLF Q8 / Kalrus G35, XT11GT / Nitefox UT20 / Niwalker BK-FA30S / Sofirn SF36, SP35 / Imalent DM21TW / Wuben I333 / Ravemen PR1200 / CL06 lantern / Xanes headlamp
[Mods] Skilhunt H03 short / Klarus XT11GT, XT12GTS / Zebralight SC50+ / Imalent DM21TW / colorful anodisation
[Sale]
Drivers: overview of sizes and types
DD+AMC based drivers Anduril or Bistro OTSM 12-24mm, S42, 24-30mm L6, Q8, MF01(S), MT03, TN42
Anduril or Bistro 8A buck driver for 20-30mm, MF01/02/04, TN40/42, Lumintop GT, MT09R
UVC and UVC+UVA drivers
programming key
Remote switch tail DD board with FET
Aux boards:
Emisar D1, D1S, D4, D4S, D18, Lumintop FW3A, Fireflies ROT66, Astrolux MF01, Tail boards like S2+
5 hours of designing this board
[Reviews] Miboxer C4-12, C2-4k+6k, C2, C4 / Astrolux K1, MF01, MF02, S42, K01, TI3A / BLF Q8 / Kalrus G35, XT11GT / Nitefox UT20 / Niwalker BK-FA30S / Sofirn SF36, SP35 / Imalent DM21TW / Wuben I333 / Ravemen PR1200 / CL06 lantern / Xanes headlamp
[Mods] Skilhunt H03 short / Klarus XT11GT, XT12GTS / Zebralight SC50+ / Imalent DM21TW / colorful anodisation
[Sale]
Drivers: overview of sizes and types
DD+AMC based drivers Anduril or Bistro OTSM 12-24mm, S42, 24-30mm L6, Q8, MF01(S), MT03, TN42
Anduril or Bistro 8A buck driver for 20-30mm, MF01/02/04, TN40/42, Lumintop GT, MT09R
UVC and UVC+UVA drivers
programming key
Remote switch tail DD board with FET
Aux boards:
Emisar D1, D1S, D4, D4S, D18, Lumintop FW3A, Fireflies ROT66, Astrolux MF01, Tail boards like S2+
It’s certainly very nice that you are actually doing this!
Project Excalibur - Next Generation LED Thrower (UPDATE 2018-01-15: 1.7Mcd)
Portable Thrower Comparison
The shape reminded me of this movie…
Thanks
Currently the tubing I’m using is too thick and stiff, and is pushing on the reflector too much.
Also there’s a tubing run in the way of removing the reflector so I’m gonna need to split the single copper coil into two pieces so that one is water to the LED and one is water back from LED, instead of how it is now, which is coil to the LED and then extra tubing run going back to the pump.
Yeah, it is really unique, very few LED lights that have a recoil reflector, usually it is just short arcs.
I wanted to try new things
Yeah, I think I will need to do that.
What do you guys think of RecoilBeam?
I will no longer put the name of the LED in the name
Thanks so much for helping me out in making this possible
I won’t need to have a big ugly external driver strapped to the light to use a CFT90!
The OPTOFIRE - 4.63Mcd aspheric LED flashlight The SYNIOSBEAM - 10Mcd recoil LED flashlight List of the farthest throwing flashlights
Lol nice photoshop, you even got the size perfect!
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About your water pump, do you have room for a larger one that would have to work less hard?
Nope, there is close to 0 space left!
It’s not getting hot now that it’s heatsinked well though.
The OPTOFIRE - 4.63Mcd aspheric LED flashlight The SYNIOSBEAM - 10Mcd recoil LED flashlight List of the farthest throwing flashlights
[Reviews] Miboxer C4-12, C2-4k+6k, C2, C4 / Astrolux K1, MF01, MF02, S42, K01, TI3A / BLF Q8 / Kalrus G35, XT11GT / Nitefox UT20 / Niwalker BK-FA30S / Sofirn SF36, SP35 / Imalent DM21TW / Wuben I333 / Ravemen PR1200 / CL06 lantern / Xanes headlamp
[Mods] Skilhunt H03 short / Klarus XT11GT, XT12GTS / Zebralight SC50+ / Imalent DM21TW / colorful anodisation
[Sale]
Drivers: overview of sizes and types
DD+AMC based drivers Anduril or Bistro OTSM 12-24mm, S42, 24-30mm L6, Q8, MF01(S), MT03, TN42
Anduril or Bistro 8A buck driver for 20-30mm, MF01/02/04, TN40/42, Lumintop GT, MT09R
UVC and UVC+UVA drivers
programming key
Remote switch tail DD board with FET
Aux boards:
Emisar D1, D1S, D4, D4S, D18, Lumintop FW3A, Fireflies ROT66, Astrolux MF01, Tail boards like S2+
RecoilBeam reminds me on those small ultrafire recoil led flashlights (UF 007, 008), and it will mess google search by bringing them into search results.
Be more creative than that
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