I am going to send the parts to get type 3 anodized next week, since I’m done all the machining and everything fits as intended.
When I get them back I will rebuild both lights and do the proper tests.
It will be a while before I can test the CFT90 though, lexel will take about a month to build the driver still.
Just arrived
Tomorrow I will turn it on a lathe to form it into a circle that will sit on the copper LED block.
No Lexel driver yet, but I guess I can still test it using the “powerful” 6A 3v drivers I use in my other lights
Only one of the lights will be converted to CFT90 for now due to cost, my light will keep the black flat, depending on how amazing the CFT90 performs I may spend the money to convert my light to CFT90 too during the summer
On Thursday I will be dropping off all the aluminum parts for type-3 anodizing, that may take a few weeks, when I get the parts back I can begin the final assembly and testing.
Just picked up the parts today, and they look great!
Very nice type 3 “clear” finish.
No anodizing places in my area did black dyed type 3, so I chose to go with regular type 3 anodizing instead of black type 2.
The gray/green finish looks great in my opinion, and it is more durable than type 2 or even dyed type 3.
The acid etching removed quite a bit of the surface imperfections, only a couple lines visible here and there, overall a nice brushed finish!
Yeah, I think it’s because I’m making the 600x800 pic stretch across the whole screen…
But if I upload the image in full resolution it is like 10MB per image and then nobody will be able to load the page
When I do the final build pictures I’ll upload them at full res.
I think it would be a problem for some people if they tried to load a forum page with 250MB of images lol
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Do people prefer I leave the images as 800x600 (like pic 1) or set them to 50% of screen width (like pics 2-8)? What works better for you guys?
Ok, but for people reading on mobile or on larger/smaller screens than 1080p, is it better to leave them 800x600 or to scale them to 50%?
I think 100% looks bad on 1080p screens.
Ok I’ll do that.
Just thought it would be easier to do 800x600 because CPF doesn’t want you posting images larger than that, but I guess I can upload them twice.
Yeah but the rules still say to not post images larger than that or you can get banned if you od it repeatedly, probably due to the large file size or processing needed to downscale the image.
Thanks I’ll do that.
I’ll still limit the images to 1600x1200 since imgur doesn’t have options to downscale to any larger sizes.
The next step up would be full res 6000x4000 from my camera and that would make the page take ages to load on some people’s internet connections
I’ll save that for the final pics.