I’m a photographer. Can’t help myself. So, with that being said, here’s a new shot I just took for a size comparison evaluation. This picture is a stacked macro comprised of 62 individual shots merged together to get this one highly detailed picture. Nothing spectacular about the Solarforce L2P used here other than the Gold color. But, the AAA MiniMag recently acquired from O-L is a very cool little light! I hope to chop it to a single AAA and with that in mind started taking some measurements. That’s when I realized that in chopped form it will be almost exactly the size of the Texas Poker shown above! The chopped AAA MiniMag in this photo is not actually chopped….I took the liberty to Photoshop it to show the result if I’m able to pull it off. Go ahead, look at it full size in Flickr and see if you can find the “seam” lol
Thought I’d give y’all a look behind the scenes, as it were. Fred uses Solid Works to design the product, then machines it exactly like the design. I’ve never seen autocad type work before and find it amazing that someone can design something on this level, then replicate the design on a manual lathe. It equates to sheer Genius as far as I’m concerned!
Fred even sent me a file with this information to be used in a Solid Works Viewer so that I could look through the components, rotate it around 360º and get a good feeling for the light from inside to out. Mind boggling stuff it is! I took the above picture as a screenshot from this viewer while looking at a 3D cutaway view of the Texas Poker on an angle. The copper pill inside the copper heatsink shows that a good portion of the head is copper with the weight of that copper being pretty central in the overall balance scheme. Very nice!
Wish it were here already. lol The driver is being programmed in Germany, shouldn’t be much longer. (fingers crossed on the lucky rabbits foot while wishing on a 4 leaf clover)
Well, the driver is on the way from Germany so Fred should have drivers to put in the Texas Poker within a week, should be getting the light within a couple of weeks. Wonder if I should take pictures of it with beamshots when it gets here?
Bad news first? The PICcolo driver has failed muster. The prototypes made it back to Australia and there is an issue with the voltage regulation. Somehow the light will blink on hi regardless of what mode is coming on before it goes to the proper setting. So if you have mode memory set at Lo, the light will blink on hi first then go to lo. Not acceptable. I might could learn to live with that, but Matt hates it and is regrouping. And in truth, I’d like lo to be my default so the Hi blinkies would definately be a distraction.
So the Texas Poker will be getting a miniFluPic driver that doesn’t put out nearly the power. On the bright side I’ll have longer run times, on the fugly side all the searching for the highest output XP-G S2 or High Output Nichia 219 was for naught. Even the Efest IMR 10440’s are now overkill.
In truth, the light will probably be much more useable this way. But it won’t have bam! factor, we’ll see. But it would appear that I’ll now be lucky to pull 200 lumens where I was looking for something just over 300 with the PICcolo driver. 200 lumens in a pinky finger sized light is still a lot of lumens, no doubt! And this will also keep heat from being a major player in the life of my LED.
Perhaps Matt will get it worked out and I can make a swap down the road. Might even upgrade to an XP-G2 at that time, only time will tell.
And that’s part of the good news, cause now it won’t be much longer and I’ll have my Ti neck light!
Nichia 219 it is! This is the 5000K variant at 475 lumens @ 1.5A, not the much lower output 4500K 92 CRI version. I have one on a SinkPAD copper star sitting beside me, thermally pasted to a copper bar 16” long, 1” wide, and 1/4” thick. Direct connected to a Lifepo4 with 3.35V it pulled 1.28A at the emitter and gives a nice white light, surprisingly bright! So this will be a good thing!
The Dereelight reflector got mated to the copper heatsink today, mini FLuPIC should be installed shortly. I sent one of my Efest IMR10440 cells to test it with as that’s what I’ll be using in the light. That should be there Friday.
Fred has shared the last of the pics he’s taken, they’re added onto the end of post #3. The light is in the mail and I’ll be taking some pics of my own in a few days! Can’t wait! Enjoy!
And for the record, I first contacted Fred 3 Months ago almost to the day. Waiting for the custom driver or probably could have had it a month ago. Oh well. It’s sweet, works beautifully…even surprisingly so and it’s perfectly executed. Win Win Win!
Thanks Bort, yeah I’ll be wearing it on a ti curb chain around my neck, don’t think my chest hairs will scratch it up too bad! It’ll get lots of use, already has in fact. And that beam is impressive in the dark, shines like a much bigger light! Yep, I’m a happy camper! :bigsmile:
The black light is an L2P with EDC+ Triple Nichia 219 pulling 2A between em.
The gold L2P is waiting for Matt’s Hyperion, Triple XP-G2’s at 5+Amps total!
Simply amazing. Fantastic light. You’ve probably mentioned it somewhere but what battery and driver are you using? I cant wait to see the pill for the HD2010 he’s making.
congrats!!
It’ll get lots of use, already has in fact. And that beam is impressive in the dark, shines like a much bigger light! Yep, I’m a happy camper! :bigsmile: