The SYNIOSBEAM - CFT90 recoil thrower

[Enderman]

@pscal

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

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

I guess a name change might make sense?

@luminarium iaculator

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

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!

[Enderman]

@AlexGT

The shape reminded me of this movie…

Lol nice photoshop, you even got the size perfect!

[Jerommel]

About your water pump, do you have room for a larger one that would have to work less hard?

[Enderman]

@Jerommel

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.

[Lexel]

[luminarium_iaculator]

@Enderman

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.

Be more creative than that .

[The_Driver1 (The_Driver)]

Enderbeam

[luminarium_iaculator]

@The_Driver

Enderbeam

Or maybe Enderman Endlessbeam

[ChibiM]

Wow.. pretty sick stuff here! That is impressive!

[Lightbringer]

EnderFire™.

[Lexel]

LuminousBeam™
Model CFT-90

[XD9]

Sick!

[MascaratumB]

Awesome You gotta find a way to “shrink it” and make it the pocket thrower of the century :smiling_imp:
Nice work :+1:

[Lightbringer]

Don’t forget to machine an attack-bezel for it!

After all, it wouldn’t be “tactical” without one! :smiling_imp:

[KawiBoy1428]

@The_Driver

Enderbeam

NeverEnderBeam :person_facepalming:

[thijsco19]

@Enderman

@The_Driver

I guess a name change might make sense?

@luminarium iaculator

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.

I kinda like the current name. It has a kind of futuristic/scientific/outer space type of sound to it.
I didn’t associate it with the led the first time I red it.

You should contact Disney so they can put this in the next star wars film as a hand held death star with the newest beam technology called the syniosbeam.

[luminarium_iaculator]

@Lightbringer

EnderFire™.

Oh yes :+1:

[Enderman]

@luminarium iaculator

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 .

True, that’s why I liked how unique syniosbeam was
If you google “recoilbeam” as one word however there are no other search results, so it’s still unique!
I might go wit that, or stick with the current name.

@The_Driver

Enderbeam

@luminarium iaculator

Or maybe Enderman Endlessbeam

@Lightbringer

EnderFire™.

@KawiBoy1428

NeverEnderBeam :person_facepalming:

Would rather not have my forum username be part of it

@ChibiM

Wow… pretty sick stuff here! That is impressive!

Thank you!

@Lexel

LuminousBeam™
Model CFT-90

This is a good one but I’m not sure if I want to have it named after an LED, what if in the next few months something even better comes out from cree or osram?

@XD9

Sick!

@MascaratumB

Awesome You gotta find a way to “shrink it” and make it the pocket thrower of the century :smiling_imp:
Nice work :+1:

Thanks Some time in the near future I want to mod/build a single-cell compact EDC light that can do like 1-2km or more!

@Lightbringer

Don’t forget to machine an attack-bezel for it!
After all, it wouldn’t be “tactical” without one! :smiling_imp:

Haha, just hide this tactical flashlight in your pocket

@thijsco19

I kinda like the current name. It has a kind of futuristic/scientific/outer space type of sound to it.
I didn’t associate it with the led the first time I red it.
You should contact Disney so they can put this in the next star wars film as a hand held death star with the newest beam technology called the syniosbeam.

Yeah it’s a pretty unique name, and the the light was designed around that LED, so maybe it would be more appropriate if I just describe why the LED choice changed mid-build.
Rather than pretending I chose a different LED from the start.
Changing the name to “recoilbeam” would still allow me to explain why the beginning LED was changed while having a unique flashlight name.
Thanks for all the suggestions

[Enderman]

FIRST LUX MEASUREMENTS:
I did a very quick test last night at 140m distance, first I got ~5Mcd, but after one quick eyeballed focusing job I got it up to 7.5Mcd!
380 lux @ 140m (measured with a laser meter and also google maps).
Since the reflector collects light all the way to 85 degrees off-center from the LED, the lux is very sensitive to focus.
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Once I get smaller tubing which doesn’t push on the reflector edge I will do more lux measurements at 500m, hopefully this distance will make the focus have less of an effect.
Instead of just guessing the focus like last night, I will also try adjusting the focus while someone (on a phone call) tells me the lux at 500m so that I know when I find the sweet spot.
Hopefully this can get me above 10Mcd which I was hoping for.
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If I switch it to a CFT90 I will probably still get above 5Mcd, but the beam will be 5x brighter which will be really sweet.
The focusing will also be easier since the LED is 9x larger.

Comparison to the Optofire:

You can see that the reflector removes all chromatic aberration that the Optofire had, and also the yellowish tint that the wavien collar gives.
The beam doesn’t seem much brighter though, since the intensity per area is halved compared to the Optofire (which uses a wavien collar), and instead simply has more area making the beam wider.
After getting as much candela as possible with the black flat, I will switch it to CFT90 in order to get a more visible beam just for fun.

[BVH]

It definitely looks more sharply focused vs the last post pics. CFT-90……can’t wait to see the beam.