The SYNIOSBEAM - CFT90 recoil thrower

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.

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 “h” before “.jpg”


Link to Full size

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 “edit” :

Type the new size (for example “2600”), click “apply” and then “save”. Copy the new shared link, add a letter for the thumbnail.

You need to go into your account settings and enable high quality.
Then the images do not get lossy compression (they get very little compression, but it is lossless)
So for example one of my 4.5MB pics might be compressed to 4MB, but remain 6000x4000 and not lose any quality.
EDIT- actually if they are over 5MB they will get lossy compression, you’re right.

Also yes you can resize to whatever resolution you want individually, but that is a pain to do for many images so it is a lot easier to use the resizing during upload settings that RobertB posted an image of above.

BUILD PROCESS - final assembly


I had to buy a larger tube of thermal paste in order to heatsink the copper cooling coil to the flashlight bosy.





The top and bottom of the coil is glued with thermal epoxy to keep it from moving.
I decided to not glue the entire coil because it would make it impossible to remove if it needed to be replaced for any reason.





Once the coil was in I put the rest of the electronics and cooling loop inside the light.






The final components were the reflector and front glass.

FINISHED PRODUCT PICTURES

More pics coming soon, as well as beamshots!
No official performance measurements have been done yet, those are still to come.

I love how you still call this a “flashlight”. :+1: :+1: :+1:

Looking forward to beamshots and throw data!!

Cheers
Nico

I admire your skills in all things electronic and mechanical Enderman. Orsm effort. Thanks again for posting up. :+1: :beer:

That beast is a work of art. Congratulations on yet another fantastic build.

Beatiful

Haha thanks! I’m also looking forward to it :slight_smile:
Need to get my friend to help me out measuring at 400m distance!


Thanks guys :slight_smile:
Some beamshots coming later tonight, it is pretty insane.

BEAMSHOTS

10 000ft cloud cover
The pictures are not very clear because they were all handheld, I will be doing a better photoshoot using a tripod in the near future.

I can’t wait to see how impressive the beam is using a CFT90 :open_mouth: 5x more lumens will make a much more visible beam.

If the led you use has 450 lumen as I have read in your parts list,you mean that the CFT-90 has only 5X450=2250 lumens?I wait to put one in my GT, thinking that the CFT-90 will have at least 5000 lumens.
Am I waiting in vain,because it is unable to give those 5000?

The LED I originally planned to use in this light is actually not as good as we thought it was due to a measurement error.
I need to edit the parts list, sorry.
The LED being used is currently a black flat, with about 900-1000lm.

Looking at picture nbr 15 a friendly (and probably unnecessary) advise: watch out with aeroplanes nearby!
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If you shine this -flashlight -searchlight at one, even accidentally, they will report it and you might get into trouble.
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Apart from that: amazing light with amazing throu, congratulation of this terrific build!! :+1: :+1: :+1:

Cheers
Nico

WOW, is this for pleasure or for customer?
Outstanding work :slight_smile:

It’s not anywhere near as dangerous as a laser, but yeah I watch out for planes :slight_smile:

Both! That’s why I’m building two at the same time.
This one is mine and the second one I need to put together will have a CFT90.