The "Gadget" - NEW PICS and an update

Love it! Pop in four extensions and you get an even brighter and longer lasting light.

From the looks of the handle, I bet it balances real nice in the hand too. Very cool!

I love it, that’s more fun than buying for sure. FrankenGadget :stuck_out_tongue: awesome

Really nice idea :slight_smile:

estimated output and runtime ?

Very cool, nice job!!

love it!

Now that is very cool.

I was wondering when someone was finally going to do it. Amazing work, I love it! :smiley: :party:

Love the toggle switch.

Nice, you just need to jack in a large power pack that hangs on the tripod you plan to mount.

Man, that’s one utt buggly light… :wink:

nice… you’re giving me idea about strapping 4 skyray king together :smiley:

Rich,

Kudos to your creativity and pursuit of the most light from a hand torch! Not the most polished mod, but pretty friggin' cool if you ask me. Seriously though, I think we need some beam shot comparisons.

It reminds me of a build using 4 x 3-up XPGs in a mag host with a massive copper heatsink and the same optics. I saw it on CPF once but can't remember whose work it was.

If only you used a larger host like C8’s; Imagine a tri or quad C8 setup like that with XML’s all driven at 2800ma+ >) .

I’ve been thinking about tri C8 setup for a while like this but planting them in a PVC pipe and making some kind of holders; If I add some interrupters and keep the modes while driving them off of a large lipo in the back I could have different lights at different outputs/modes while avoiding battery fuss.

Now I just need some cheap c8’s ;). A fan could be driven off of the lipo if it needed active cooling (Stationary flood, when used w/diffuser, etc) but I’d intend on using this as a mobile ‘flood light’ with a better run-time than bigger spot lights.

I just need to see how lights handle the lipos (I’ve got a cheap headlight I plan on hacking up this week and while it is higher voltages that can always be stepped down or I can just wire larger individual cells in parallel w/some fuses to prevent any dangerous overheating. If the current is too much it would have to be stepped down/limited/restricted.

If I can I’d like to avoid lions and just add a monitor for the lipo cells; If I’m going to be running 4000mah+ packs it would be nice to charge them at 2+ Amps :bigsmile:.

How did I miss this thread? I swear I miss way too much around here.

Rich, good to see you are still modding. That is somewhere between James Bond and Rube Goldberg, but it's cool looking and I bet, it's bright as hell!

Way to go Rich!

Born of necessity as night vision is worse. Don’t get old! :frowning: I’d like to redo the handle. Looks worse in the pic than in person though. :wink:

Rich

wheres the beam shot at the football field :slight_smile:

In my mind… I’m lazy, not equipped for beamshots, and it’s too damn cold!

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