You totally rocked that Relic! Polished up it’s brilliant, and I DO love polished copper/brass/stainless/Ti…Ok, I’m a bling freak and that is gorgeous!
The output is crazy too, excellent job inside as well. Wish I understood the electronics…would never have thought you could run 3 boards from another board, Master/Slave with drivers boggles my mind (admittedly easy enough to do)
Very impressive! I bet it’s a solid chunk in the hand as well, I think you should send it on BLF tour, let everybody play with it for a week before sending it on to the next person on the list.
Thanks guys. Ouchyfoot, I’ve considered a lacquer but it dissipates heat so horribly as it is, add a layer of ‘insulation’ and I think it would just burn it off
The host itself gets heat out of the emitters better than any light I have. Copper all the way. The problem is, it cannot radiate it away due to the shiny finish. I’m thinking it might be a little better once it returns to a natural finish, but I doubt there is enough surface area to dissipate 30W of heat. I might have to customize the driver to make High into a Turbo mode, and add in a longer-term sustainable high.
I did the wire wheel first on the body, and liked it, but for the glamour shots I decided to go polished. It gets nice and brassy coloured in about a week.
Edit: silly phone keyboard.
Pure copper goodness . . . if you get a chance, it would be great if you could put together a spec list with dimensions and stuff like a mfgr would do.
Lots of great projects and every one so unique. But for having done very little with metal previous (I’ve never done anything but cut, drill and grind on a couple simple things), this is a great achievement.
Well, if I was stranded and needed something made, I'd hope you were close by! That is nice work and danged sure creative. Love the way you made the batteries stay put!!! A BIG thumbs up on that one!!! Danged nice light and I like the beamers as well!!