Good effort djozz. 
Tnx.
Today I got the 14AWG wire in so I could finish the battery carrier. I chopped the front section off the flashlight head 4mm above the shelf and sawed two grooves in the remaining rim to lead the ledwires to the side. Had to ream the holes in the shelf to 4mm diameter for these quite massive wires. Smoothed everything with sand paper so there were no sharp edges to cut into the wires. The wires were fixed in position with a good bit of kapton tape, does not look extremely profi but you are not going to look inside the lamp daily.
In the picture I show the old 18AWG wires too, so that you can see that 14AWG is a whole lot thicker.
I was lucky because with a 40T at 4.12V I measured 19.85 amps now, precisely what I was hoping for 
So now that the battery tube was shortened, I could check the maximum flood setting of the lamp, with the slider towards the lens with the battery tube touching it.
In the picture the flood looks a bit less wide than in reality because of the wide field of my phone camera. Trees are at 25 meters as always. (it looks like I borrowed Flahoholic’s van for the beamshot )
Nice
WoW
The beams are really awesome
Regards Xandre
“The outside received a base-paint first, and then after some slight sanding, bright red!”
I missed the last update from a few days ago but “Wow, nice work, sir!” (Mooi rood is niet lelijk, toch?)
mooi rood is niet lelijk herinner ik me uit de jaren 70 volgens mij, zegt iets over je leeftijd 
Nice beam djozz. Ever have trouble finding a car park?
Not sure what you mean, but I do not have a driving licence, never needed one over here. (I can park a 20 meter steel barge though)
I guess MRsDNF was referring to your “spotting light” to spot a place for a car! It guess it could apply to the barge too
Speaking of which, ships often have great spotlights, my cycle trip to work is along a small part of the Amsterdam port and I’m always jealous of those marine mirror lights. They cost a fortune though…
Yes, quite the modest LED and optics swap with a driver bypass 
I could not get away with working on my dinner table. I have an Ikea Bjursta wall-mounted drop-leaf table next to my PC desk. It gets a bit cramped sometimes (about 90x50cm work area), but I quite like it. And it allows me to conduct mid-project research on BLF by simply turning in my computer chair, when I inevitably bugger something up
Very cool
Holy spotlight … Batman
Throwtest
For who is into throw distance as unit (distance at which the illumination is reduced to 0.25lux AKA moonlight level), that is 4.36 km.
My Extech LT45 over-reads a bit, the Tasi 8133 makes it 4.24 Mcd but that may be under-read again. Let’s agree on rather throwy
(I do not dare to use my Mobilux classA luxmeter too much lately because the cable-connection to the sensor is rather worn-out and fixing it will require a completely new calibration as well, which will cost me 300+ euros)
Outstanding! 
Great work, once again!!
For the Americans, 4.36km is about 2.7 cheeseburgers per bald eagle miles
I could go for about 2.7 cheeseburger right about now! 
Where did I put that bald eagle?
So much throw, nice work!
Would These parabolic reflectors be appropriate for making somthing like this ? It doesn’t look very expensive. If I understand correctly the short focal lenght means that all light would be collected (expect in center), also it would not produce chromatic aberation as opposed to the fresnel lens.
those are uncoated aluminium reflectors, good for focusing sunlight for heating up stuff, but how is the light loss, and are they optical quality? If yes, they should be fun to make a recoil thrower with
I’m very impressed by the optical performance of these budget plastic fresnel lenses btw, the throw per surface area is very similar to the GT reflector. What helps is that the light source is small and centered (as opposed to projecting an image i.e. a slide which is a large source), the fresnel rims are only maximally optimised for light coming right from the focal point which is the case with a led.