Review: Digital Projector LED Spotlight Cree T6

If its 3/8” copper (or thicker), it should have no problems conducting heat that amount of distance. Lots of heat sinks and copper material to pick through on ebay. The best solution would be a heat pipe setup, but will probably take a lot of work and imagination to make it work properly.

Then there is always the solution of an internal fan and vents cut through the side of the host for cross-ventilation.

I can’t tell yet if they are one piece, I just assumed the heatsink and driver were placed together using some sort of thermal epoxy. But from the LED side, it seems to look as if the LED is riveted somehow. So maybe you are correct. I’ll try separating the reflector and heat sink and see how they are together.

Having upgraded to the Redilast cells and tossing the lead acid battery, the light has lost so much weight, it feels like a cheap light now at only 760 grams. You can barely feel it in the hand. Oh well.

Bro, remember to get the lux readings @ 10-15m distances. A aliexpress shop can send it out before Chinese New Year, and i shall receive it a few weeks later. :slight_smile:

Hi 2100, it’s been pour rain here, so I wasn’t able to do it. Hopefully getting it to you tomorrow won’t be to late.

No problem at all man, let me know. :slight_smile:

I noticed that the spill of the Digital projector T6 searchlight is quite a bit less than the HD2010.

So Richie, would you pls do a ceiling bounce test with the light meter on both the FF HD2010 (I reckon driven at ~ 3.5A) and also this Digital Projector T6?
In doing so, seriously there is no need to do a current measurement at the LED. Coz we are just interested in the OTF lumens. :slight_smile:

With my Fandyfire HD-2010 on high mode at 3.60a I was getting 357 lux.

The Digital Projector on high under the same conditions was 220 lux.

Hope this helps.

Yep, I took the red one apart that it has 4 rods, one at each corner of the start that pass through the reflector and connect to the driver. The reflector is one solid piece. This type of star setup and driver is something I’ve never delt with before. So I’m not sure how I’m going to up the power to really take full advantage of this huge reflector. I do know with the battery mod I made, it would be worth it if it can be figured out.

edited post to keep things on topic :slight_smile:

Thanks flashpilot. I’m noting all these suggestions to see which will be the most viable. Since I have 2 extra XM-L2 LED’s, I’m going to see about installing one of them after I figure out a proper heatsink.

you just made me realize - it is an xm-l in there…

I bet they’ve got the position of it dialed in pretty well.

if you could figure out how to improve heatsinking w/o removing the mcpcb that’s already in there, you could reflow the xml2 to that board. I’d certainly take it out to do that…since electroplating might not like those temps.

Any time Richie. Im sure others will continue to chime in as well. Do you have any pics of the inside of the body taken apart? I assume it opens up in two pieces? Id like to see what the inside looks like and what you have to work with.

Your beam shot from that great reflector makes it all seem worth while.

Here are some interior photos of what I’m dealing with.


XM-L and 5500k-6000k


Rear of star and 4 contact points.


Underside of heatsink for Led and driver. Shown is side LED contact points press or solder into.


Rear side of aluminum reflector to attach driver/heatsink to. Reflector is not thick in this area.


This RED version I received didn’t have quite the precise focus of the Gold one. After removing
the LED, the contact point seemed slightly off center.


Just a photo showing one-piece handle unit.


Aluminum housing shows screw threads for handle attachment. With my new 18650 battery pack,
there is now an extra 1/3 more interior room not having the lead acid battery anymore.

So the body is hollow. The problem with aluminum when it gets that thin is that it wont conduct heat very far. A few suggestions: Id go with the thickest square chunk of copper or aluminum that will reasonably fit inside the body (leaving room for batteries & driver, etc) then notch it for the screw channels. The larger the heat sink surface contact area to the body, the better. You want a tight fit in the contact areas. After you’ve sized and fitted it properly, use a thermal adhesive to help conduct the heat. For better heat transfer, you might want to sand the inside of the housing where the heat sink will make contact. Affix the emitter + reflector directly to the new heat sink and then press the heatsink into the body. You’ll have time to wiggle things around a bit for final adjustments before the adhesive cures. Remember that the less thermal adhesive you use, the better it will do its job. You want as thin of a coating as possible. Do you own a belt sander? They are perfect for shaping metal if you dont own machine tools. Ive clamped a 4” hand held belt sander upside down in a vice to produce professional results when shaping aluminum. Just go slow and you’ll find that the learning curve isnt that steep.

you did a whole lot better separating the emitter/driver/reflector than I did :Sp

now that I see the bare reflector, using the same pcb isn’t such a great idea, because it adds a thermal interface (the back of the reflector) and it is nearly impossible to flatten/lap.

My next though was like flashpilots, though just because I have it on hand, I was thinking rod instead of square.

Cut it to the inner diameter of body, file a flat section in the middle for the emitter (or put an end mill in your drill press).

I’d probably put a screw in each side, from the outside of the body.

This thing should zoom right past that 100kcd mark.

Thanks a lot!

Probably the HD2010 is doing low 800L OTF @ 3.5A. So this digital projector searchlight is ~ 500L OTF.

From the pure spill (unaided by reflector), we can see that it really is not driven that high. Even if its a T5 CW it should not be that dim.

But the beam is focussed nicely. Lets see how your lux readings turn out. :slight_smile:

Its nice to see the reflector channel a true tight spot beam without casting (wasting) a lot of spill from the sides. Looking forward to some long range beam shots after your mods are complete.


Mouse out = Digital Projector Spotlight

Mouse in = Fandyfire HD-2010

If the lux measurement turn out to be attractive (over 100kcd) then I might get one.