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!
Itâs not getting hot now that itâs heatsinked well though.
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 .
Enderbeam
Or maybe Enderman Endlessbeam
Wow.. pretty sick stuff here! That is impressive!
EnderFireâ˘.
LuminousBeamâ˘
Model CFT-90
Sick!
Awesome You gotta find a way to âshrink itâ and make it the pocket thrower of the century :smiling_imp:
Nice work :+1:
Donât forget to machine an attack-bezel for it!
After all, it wouldnât be âtacticalâ without one! :smiling_imp:
NeverEnderBeam :person_facepalming:
I kinda like the current name. It has a kind of futuristic/scientific/outer space type of sound to it.
I didnât 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.
EnderFireâ˘.
Oh yes :+1:
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, thatâs why I liked how unique syniosbeam was
If you google ârecoilbeamâ as one word however there are no other search results, so itâs still unique!
I might go wit that, or stick with the current name.
Enderbeam
Or maybe Enderman Endlessbeam
EnderFireâ˘.
NeverEnderBeam :person_facepalming:
Would rather not have my forum username be part of it
Wow⌠pretty sick stuff here! That is impressive!
Thank you!
LuminousBeamâ˘
Model CFT-90
This is a good one but Iâm 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?
Sick!
Awesome You gotta find a way to âshrink itâ 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!
Donât forget to machine an attack-bezel for it!
After all, it wouldnât be âtacticalâ without one! :smiling_imp:
Haha, just hide this tactical flashlight in your pocket
I kinda like the current name. It has a kind of futuristic/scientific/outer space type of sound to it.
I didnât 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 itâs 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 ârecoilbeamâ would still allow me to explain why the beginning LED was changed while having a unique flashlight name.
Thanks for all the suggestions
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 doesnât 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 doesnât 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.
It definitely looks more sharply focused vs the last post pics. CFT-90âŚâŚcanât wait to see the beam.
Your making Giggles look like this.
Nice, now the farthest throwing led reflector thrower ever - by a large margin!
The second pic looks really cool!
The beam looks very similar to my light, but that was to be expected (in truth itâs actually much slimmer though). The focus looks a bit âoffâ.
BTW: you could improve the performance a tiny bit by putting a spherical mirror into the center hole of the reflector.
EDIT: I just checked, you should be getting up to around 11-12Mcd. Youâre still way off. Like I said - focussing is very, very difficult.