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.
i really didn’t read that description properly! when i saw ‘police mode….’ i thought my fears were confirmed :weary:
hike: thank you for pointing the group feature out to me, this should make it more useful at least! i had already e-mailed them and they said there were no plans to release a 7 colour version.
vesture: i don’t own the previous one so don’t know how blinky would function, but my first impression is the same as yours the description sounds like it fast cycles between 4 colours
i’ve never tried a multi-group driver, could anyone tell me if a surface mount switch would be sufficient to bridge the stars, if there is one that small… that way you could have semi-access to 6 colours…
I built two, but with the green coloured 20mm driver, see this thread there is also a video of the UI of that 'first gen. green coloured' intl-outdoor 20mm mcecolour driver. About adding 7135 chips: in that driver at least there is only one 'entrance' of the circuitry from the minus for all four dies, it is a tiny component that already gets red hot from the max 800mA that the driver draws. That may also be the reason that at any given moment just one of the four dies lights. They apparantly redesigned the driver and now there is also the blue version, in 20 and 17mm. I haven't looked at those closely enough but at least by combining the stars there are options that two dies light at the same time.
What really needs to happen is for manufacturers to consult us before releasing product. :) LOL! How conceded is that......
Seriously though that is a pretty cool driver. In fact it the only driver I have ever seen that even made me consider buying a RGB led.
What I REALLY wish there was though is some modes that pulsed the led colors back and forth after only one shot. Like say in the police mode rather than RRR BBB RR have a mode that went RBRBRBRB Or better still would be RGB RGB RGB at a semi fast rate.
Your right. I glanced at that picture before and thought that 7135s were what I saw there but it appears something else is written there.
I am still confident there must be a way to boost the current. I cant read the numbers on the chips, but maybe its possible that those chips will work similar to how 7135s do. It'd be worth a shot anyway :)