Sofirn Q8 458 HAM'R, DBC say's It's Hammer Time! :)

Wow, great work!

I’m with the others Dale. :beer:
Thanks for making the thread your light deserves.
I can believe the car in the drive way in front of you was vaporised when you hit turbo. Hope no one was in it.
Keep up the extraordinary work mate, good one. :beer:

I've heard Texas had some blackouts recently because of 'power cable thieves'..... hmmm I wonder where that red cable is coming from? ;)

Wow dale.. awesome stuff!

That’s insane. I extremely liked how you added a sst40 in the center. Great work dale!

Great build and video. Thank you.
If that strobe isn’t a phaser set on the “stun” setting, I don’t know what is!

Trying to think of a way to measure the current draw, maybe I could create an open tail cap that would allow me to get a clamp meter between the copper negative plate and the tube, but it’d probably end up dropping current and not be accurate. It’s a LOT, gotta be! The math leads me to 86 Amps, I can believe it!

I was going to put 4 Nichia 219C’s in the triangular open spaces between the quads, but then the way I did the wiring took up two of those spaces. So now I’m still debating adding two in the open slots, then covering the “T” wiring connections with 2 of those .458 Ham’r cartridges. And I’m contemplating how I could put a color SMD emitter in the primer pocket of the casing and wire it to the switch LED’s. Might be difficult to run the wires from the switch up to the top but hey, beats digging ditches right? :smiley:

86 amps! That’s insane and I love it.
Where are you hiding the flux capacitor??

It was a bugger to pull off, but the flux capacitor is between the invisibility cloak and the gravity field generator. I know, I know, but I have diamond shielding and so far it’s working… :wink:

THAT , is coool !!!

That is some special build there wow. Any info on turbo run times yet?

UH-MAZE-ING!!

Very nice work :+1:

Wow! Tint looks very NW in the video :+1:

Now I know what that light was on the northern horizon!!!

Impressive monster light Dale. :+1: :+1: Really lights up those fields. Perfect for your neck of the woods.

Thanks guys. I thought for a while there I’d bitten off more than I could chew! As it happened, with parts being delayed on a few fronts, I was able to break it up into smaller work attempts and it worked out… maybe 10 hours at the lathe on a few different days? Had thought about building the whole light from scratch but just couldn’t do it. I have no idea what I was thinking when I decided to go this big. Well, I didn’t originally intend for it to be this big, 3” diameter and 3 quads was the original intent. Then Hank sells the boards in pairs, so I got 4 boards, 4 optics, found I had a slew of emitters to choose from, and well, got carried away. Once I realized that 25,000 was possibly on the table, there was no turning back! lol

The cold rainy weather has been wreaking havoc with the Titanium in my neck. I do NOT like being a human barometer!

thats awesome

First I want to say. “WOW that is crazy.”
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Second is what deep thinking, or drinking, hold my beer, inspired this one?
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You knocked it out of the park and it is amazing, Great job.
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Are you waiting for the x2 tubes for the q8? more power…. Re : BLF Q8 and Sofirn Q8 Extended Tubes?

Expecting longer run time from Sofirn’s new tubes, hoping the carriers can carry the current, don’t know if there’s leeway for more power but would be happy to at least not lose power.

No alcohol was harmed during the making of this light. :innocent:

Klrman, I ran it in the lightbox for 2 minutes with zero air circulation around the head, it dropped to 12,800 lumens as the 4 cells took a hit but, while it did get pretty warm, I could still cover it with my hand and keep contact.

So yeah, interested to see what Sofirn’s tubes do for run time… 8 cells? 12? 16? I have 16 brand new Samsung 30Q’s on standby.