This evening I soldered a loop into one of the triple boards to check current at the emitters, each board is pulling 14.53A for a total of 58.12A, an estimated ~188 Watts. Each Samsung W6 emitter is pushing 1460 lumens for 17,526 lumens at start on 4 Samsung 30Q cells.
Built a PD68 tripledown board. Still a bench project but I do have one in a light but it is just pressfit and not soldered in yet. It runs Bistro-HD right now. Still yet to settle on mode groups and actually build them out.
Iām not quite ready to make permanent modifications to this light for Mrs. manithree, so I made a drop-in replacement for the incandescent bulb using a high CRI Yuji strawhat, a brass washer, and some copper wire.
I was hoping to get the emitter just a little further forward than it ended up. So itās a doughnut. And itās significantly less bright than the incandescent which had a slightly worse beam pattern.
I have a couple of eneloop AAs in C sleeves to run it. A flashlight that old that has never had an alkine leak in it should be kept that way, IMO.
But, yeah, itās not very bright, so I expect battery life wonāt be a problem.
Ok, so yāall know by now that the right cell can make a big difference, right? I mean, you go to a lot of trouble modding a light you want to use the cell thatās going to show it off, sure ya do!
So, I got the new Samsungās in my Meteor and made some tweaks, with Samsung 30Qās it was making like 17,528 lumens, right? But how can that be enough? I mean, the math said there was more to found so I ordered some of the new (to me anyway) Samsung 25S 18650ās. Supposed to be directly comparable to the Sony VTC5A and 5D cells.
Got solder blobs on 4 out of 8, got em charged up, stuck em in the Meteor and fired that bad boy up! ANDā¦.
18,940.5 lumens at start! Yeowza!
1412 lumens for a battery swap, Iāll take it! lol