The SYNIOSBEAM - CFT90 recoil thrower

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.

a lot of work to get this driver done

here some pictures of the progress in cooperation with enderman

90 minutes work function block works

Upscaling to 8 circuits

a lot little things optimised

Central connecting pads added

Implementing inner layers for current conduction

Enderman wanted the connection on the back side, some minor improvements to inner layers and viases for curent transfer

After I saw this picture of mounting it I thought he is misunderstanding the colling concept with viases to the back side

So I told him to mount the driver with the back side to the case and we took thinner inductors to stay within 5mm thickness

enhaned the top and bottom ground connection as I removed the inner ground layer on a big parrt for LED+ paths

There are a ton of components on that thing…
wow
Amazing job!

The amount of ICs is just over the top! :wink:
How about the some status LEDs for the nerds? :stuck_out_tongue:

Lovely driver! Thanks for giving us a window into the design process, Lexel.

Enderman, great job on the light, and thanks for documenting it for us.

BTW, Vinh has shown his CFT-90 driver recently:

I have seen this as well, but the design seems not well cooled
He went a very easy way and simply bought a complete Constand Voltage module, externally PWMing it

Basically he put a 20A board from Mutara on top of a normal driver
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0ahUKEwiy1NPD3sbaAhXBLlAKHdamAD0QFggyMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpower.murata.com%2Fdata%2Fpower%2Fokl2-t20-w12.pdf&usg=AOvVaw348cKN7GtTzFjlo9YErloo

He has practically all heat generating components on a slave board,
which is externally PWMing this with an external P-FET

I hope he is only PWMing low output levels with the external MOSFET to get Moonlight and get the higher Output regulated over the output voltage,
but still he is using a CV module for a CC operation which is not ideal

It uses P-FETs which are in general a lot less good than N-Types

My design has all heat generating FETs close to the edge and with at least 2 layers heat conducted to the outer diameter

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Thanks you, and thanks to lexel for posting more info about how driver development process!


That’s nice, although I wanted a lot more power than 20 amps :wink:
With lexel’s driver I will be able to push the CFT90 to the limits of my watercooling system.
It has 8 dip switches on it too that allow me to change the maximum current by multiples of 6 just in case the watercooling isn’t enough for 48 amps haha

I have been following this and am amazed at the electronics and design at this level for a light!
Very impressive.

Thank you :slight_smile:
It’s probably the most complex project I’ve done, due to how limited the space is.

Had to restore my password and log in, just to compliment you on this project. Been following it, and I like it, I like it a lot!
Also have a question: What was the reason you went with a pretty thick, (1/4”?) backplate and not a thinner one?

Another thing, I saw you mentioned that something was touching the reflector edge earlier, have you solved that? Because if there is just the slightest pressure on these reflectors, it will deflect them and you get bad performance. Believe me, I know :cry:

They can report it but they’d have to find him first. That’s a large apt building with many others around. In a plane going 400+ miles per hour unless he had it on when they came around. You’d probably have better luck finding a needle in a haystack

Thank you!
The backplate holds all the electronics as well as the reflector, I though it would be nice to have it the same thickness as the tube body so that everything is the same, even though it is a bit overkill.
Better safe then sorry! Especially if this light is going to be carried around a lot.

And yeah there was a coolant tube slightly under 1/4” OD between the reflector and body which pushed the edge of the reflector and completely deformed the spot.
I had no idea they were so flexible! Luckily it caused no damage and just went back to it’s original shape, and now makes a much more clean die projection.
I replaced the tubing with some 3/16” tubing which doesn’t touch and is also softer, and now there is no problem.

PS- looking forward to your new carbon fiber superthrower :wink:

What about the GT mod with the CFT-90?Is the driver ready?And finally, is some guy ready to try this mod? Because I wait to see beamshots from CFT-90 as well as XHP70.2 leds,so as to make a decision which of the two to put in my GT, sending it to giorgoskok,(who is also a Greek member), to do the job,because I know his work from other mods he has done for me.

Yes, you do have quite a bit of stuff on the backplate, so in that regard the extra thickness certainly doesn’t hurt. And these reflectors are indeed very “springy” something I found out the hard way when I bonded one ever so slightly deformed (less than 0.5mm) and lost 50% performance, and the beam had a rectangular spot. :person_facepalming: The reflector itself was perfectly fine, but I had to return it to Phoenix and have it reinstalled.

Anyhow, I was wondering about another thing. How do you think the luminance on the CFT-90 respond to beaming light on the core, from a secondary light source? Compared to just increasing the current?
What I was thinking here, was if you installed a secondary LED in the vertex hole, with an aspheric lens, plus a bi or plano convex lens in front, and with the correct focal lenght, you could focus all the light from the secondary LED, directly on the core of the main LED. At some point, it would just overheat and burn up, but this stuff isn’t my field of expertise. Thoughts?

I will answer here:

It all depends on if you want to make the entire die brighter or just a smaller portion in the center?

Focussing an LED on such a small point will be difficult if you want high efficiency. A 450nm laser would be much easier to focus, but it’s more difficult to get a uniform beam (I have tried someting like this here, it’s in German).

If you want to make the whole die much brighter you will need a lot of blue light (similar to the CFT-90 itself). This would require much more power, big batteries, powerful cooling etc.

I don’t have a GT, I’m putting a CFT90 in this flashlight, not a GT :stuck_out_tongue:
Maybe you posted in the wrong thread?

Mhm, I specifically asked phoenix to make and install the mount for me, they did a great job.

You can double the intensity by adding more light to the core, however you lose a lot of efficiency since you would need something like 3 additional CFT90s in order to get a 2x improvement.
Similar to how a wavien collar collects an additional 75% more light and doubles the intensity.
The best option is to use lasers to excite phosphor, as they can make a very small spot of high intensity blue light.