Still not done, need to do some more soldering. This would be the last day to take some beam shots, so slapped everything together the best I could, and tried my hand for the very first time. It will take some more practice with my old HP (like 2.1MP old) camera, to get the technique down.
Hook up time.
We have liftoff.
A demo mode video with ramp up/down. As I mentioned before, color mixing isn’t so hot, so this will provide a baseline for fooling around with some diffision schemes after the contest.
Note: couldn’t get the video to stick, I’m going to sleep and will fix tomorrow.
Here’s a link to youtube, not sure how else to do it right now. P.S. The little small dot is some sort of reflection or something and is not visible in the beam.
RGBW vid
There is some spill involved with the zoom when focused on the die. The beam will get smaller, but not focused on the die. Not sure exactly what is going on there, if it’s my bezel or something else that does that?
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What you see is what you get. It works, there’s the beam-shots now in post #2. Not really finished. No excuses on my part, just can’t motivate myself to get out and finish soldering more parts today. The o-ring for the top plate that melted off on me, top plate skirt, and bottom plate is made but not soldered, plus general cleanup, and oh, one of the internal battery cap threads messed up again so the cap goes in only part way.
Hope to finish up in the next week or so, and will share a beauty shot, possibly more beam shots. In retrospect, should have tried grafting some 3/4” hose threads for the battery caps rather than try the homemade threads. The light could have benefited by using a more mechanical attachments, as opposed the layer upon layer of soldering steps.
Want to thank Old Lumens, the judges, the sponsors, other contestants, and the forum for there participation. It has been a truly great experience to share and view all the crazy cool builds they have inspired.