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 âpowerfulâ 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 âclearâ 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 itâs because Iâm making the 600x800 pic stretch across the whole screenâŚ
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 Iâll 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 Iâll do that.
Just thought it would be easier to do 800x600 because CPF doesnât 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 Iâll do that.
Iâll still limit the images to 1600x1200 since imgur doesnât 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 peopleâs internet connections
Iâll save that for the final pics.
I upload this 6000x4000 picture to imgur which resized it automatically to 3200x2400, due to size limit to 1MB.
(Non-animated images over 1MB for anonymous uploads and 5MB for account holders will be lossily compressed).
This is the largest thumbnail, by adding âhâ before â.jpgâ
If you have an account, there is no problem to upload a 6000x4000 picture as long as its size in MB is not over 5MB. Make a thumbnail and add a link to the full size.
If you want to resize your image once uploaded to imgur, put your mouse in the top right corner of the image, choose âeditâ :
Type the new size (for example â2600â), click âapplyâ and then âsaveâ. Copy the new shared link, add a letter for the thumbnail.