The SYNIOSBEAM - CFT90 recoil thrower

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.

This is correct


Just arrived :slight_smile:
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 :stuck_out_tongue:

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 :slight_smile:

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.

So that’s the expensive little guy!

Yup!

Here it is with the connectors removed and milled down to size (didn’t use a lathe)
I tested it and it still works :smiley:


Uff… Lucky you :slight_smile:

BUILD PROCESS - anodizing finished

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!








Your pics have bad resolution :frowning:
Nice, I mean, really nice project and execution !

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 :confused:

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?

I think it makes the most sense to stick with smaller resolutions and instead take more pictures including more close-ups.

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.

800x600 is good… if you still live in the early 2000s…
Give us at least 1600x1200 ?

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.

CPF resizes them automatically.

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.

When you load them on Imgur, select 21” monitor and imgur will size them for you

I already know how to use that, that’s how i downscale them to 800x600.

The Driver is talking about the resizing that happens on CPF.

Oh, I responded to what X3 was saying about the picts here on blf being too low res

I remember slow internet (dial-up), when people were posting thumbnails…

Get the smaller version of an image on Imgur

:+1:
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 :stuck_out_tongue:
I’ll save that for the final pics.

I agree with you.

800x600 is more than enough and if someone wants detailed picture from some reason then if you want send them on email.

There are some threads with beautiful but too heavy pictures that 5Mbit connections simply can’t chew.

So 800x600 resized for web is around 100kb or less and that loads lighting fast.