This is one of the things I always wanted! (As well as some other things I came across at BLF ;))
Now I just need a host to fit this 20mm driver in, I would love some really small 18650 host, since this is more of a fun light and I don’t need a big reflector for throw…
Maybe the Sipik SK98 should fit?
I was never really impressed with any of the RGBW stuff, but that strobe would be insane if it would fire each led individually at a fast rate, say through an aspherical lens. Like a laser show.
I did some builds already with these (e.g. in a Sipik sk68), but with the new 17mm driver I could not resist again . This led is so much fun, it is going to go in a small 16340 light this time .
i also had the mce and driver in my cart, along with the torpedo host… came very very close to pulling the trigger… if the torpedo wasnt a twisty, i probably would have
Im going to put one of those in an convoy M2 body, and see how it does, mostly because it seems that its the only readily available 20mm driver i can find, and might as well spice up some things with some RGBW
I got my package from intl-outdoor today and was pretty excited to build a P60 MC-E RGB module until I opened the package….
They sent me regular MC-E emitters. |( grrrrrr……
I’ve emailed their customer service and we will see what happens. I don’t see anywhere on their website where they sell regular MC-E emitters. Hopefully their supplier didn’t make a mistake.
I got my package a week ago, and my emitter luckily is the right one:
I have the MCE color in a Sipik sk68, but have not made a reflector light with it, so to get a feeling for that I removed the lens of the Sipik and just played around with some loose XRE-reflectors that fit on top of the led around the dome , and my first impression is that it is going to be sort of tough to do a nice build. No pictures were made but it looked like it is quite hard to find a good focal point in which the four dies all give acceptable beam patterns and still maintain a decent hotspot. It got worse with larger reflectors, and better with more orange peel. There may be a nice focal point in a large reflector sanded down so that the emitter sticks deeper into the reflector, I did not try that.
One thing that will be a problem when having a reflector on top of the led (instead of around it) is that because of the thickness of the led you must find the room for that in the flashlight head (so it may be an actual blessing to have to sand some of the reflector away).
The driver that OP linked should be able to have the current boosted. To me it just looks like a 7135 based driver, so by adding a chip it would be a 1050ma board. I will probly be adding a pair myself 1400 ma per die is about right.