Just off the CNC - Update: It's Alve!

Ah, I was from the West Coast. Spent 5 years up at Michigan Tech though before moving down here, like I said, I miss it.

Oh I also wear 2 or 3 layers of sunnies/dark tinted safety glasses to reduce the amount of light, really helps reduce the squint factor too

@PilotPTK what exactly did you use for seal? I've been searching for silicon sheets to cut out seals.

Not the Pilot-man, but search ebay for silicone baking sheet. Just make sure it's smooth both sides. (Some have texture on one or both sides.) I found some in go-fast red that was just about 1mm thick. The ebay vendor I used was siliconesupplies, but I'm not sure they ship to the rest of Europe.

Very nice little pocket light there

I wish that I could share some photos of my lumen maker, but the patrons that commissioned it want to keep it a bit under wraps for now.

It has much in common with your device. It is built around 15,000 lumen/150 watt (30V/5A) Bridgelux LED arrays in independently controlled modules. Each module has it's own AVR based driver/dimmer/thermal manager/fault manager. They talk to each other and a central control via a RS-485 network. Forced air or liquid cooling though... each module is less than 50 cubic inches. Input power is via a dual-redundant failsafe power supply with 2x16P 20Ah A123 LiFePO4 battery backup.

The biggest configuration so far is 180,000 lumens in a 12 module array. There is talk of doing a 540,000 lumen beast. There is currently a limit of 65,535 modules in an array (but that could be changed) so there is capability for a little more expansion.

Very cool. I do a lot of controls stuff, so RS-485 is one of my love-hate relationships. Nice job, it sounds..

PPtk

I have been SWAMPED at work, an out of town quite a bit, so I haven't put one second into my big light.. Too bad, but I can't do fun projects like this one without the income that working generates :)

In the little bit of free-time that I have had, however.. well, ask and ye' shall receive..

PPtk

watchingwaitingFoy

Sexy time.

Theeere we go! :)

Now, let's see...

omg, just looking at what you've done before --> expecting awesomeness again! but in a smaller package

I'm an offroader, and just a few days ago, me and a friend were talking about Xml potential vs. available led bars for 4x4 use (which I believe use P7, Xre or Xpg emitters, but none seen so far with Xml), so I showed him the potential of Xml turning off headlights of my Nissan Patrol and driving in the middle of the woods (pitch black) just hanging my DRY out of the window at High setting.

The beam pattern was less than perfect, ok, but lighting road and surrounding was great, and that was with 3 Xml only. Let me say the stock headlights were dim and yellow in comparison. Now let's imagine your 24 Xml bar! Wow!

I'm following your build-up with growing interest, my electronic knowledge is basic so I have no chances to make my own lightbar... Think that my original very rough plan was to try to use two DRY head assembly, making on a lathe some sort of support to thread the heads on, and then experiment with RC model Electronic Speed Control (fet based) to drive the emitters.

As rough as it sounds, I still like the idea of the RC ESC for driving the leds as it would allow dimming from zero to full power at the turn of a knob on the dash. Not sure how to limit max power though...

Would you think a similar dash "linear" control would be available with your lightbar?

I really hope to buy from you one of your superb lightbar in a near future (black anod' for me, thanks!), or at least I'm willing to do that if they are not going to cost a kidney and some more... ;o)

I know I really really want!

Most. Awesome. Picture. Ever

:)

Holly $hit man :) i want to see this in the dark

I think that your beam will move Earth from its orbit !?!

Massive respect for developmenting the electronics, You have to have big head for that :)

Wish best for project from Croatia & to see this monster at the market ;)

I am building similar project , but with only 6pcs XML T6 for my ATV due to limited power from generator, I will open thread

again - massive respect for doing this !!

Aloha and welcome to BLF dinac!

Welcome to the madness, dinac!

Any news?