A lower voltage would reduce the heat, but also the flow rate.
Now that I added a heat path to the body it isnāt 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 reflectorās precision.
I will need to do further tests with the synios LEDs.
My first test from two days ago didnāt 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, Iām looking forward to more beamshots and numbers.
A lot more complicated too!
Same, Iām 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.
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! Iām thinking a chest harness might be kinda handy, and nerdy cool. Amazing work!
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 Iām using is too thick and stiff, and is pushing on the reflector too much.
Also thereās a tubing run in the way of removing the reflector so Iām 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 Also wanted more lux than the optofire without spending $1000 on a custom lens.
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.
Thanks so much for helping me out in making this possible
I wonāt need to have a big ugly external driver strapped to the light to use a CFT90!