I couldn’t wire and center all the 15 emitters like that, man it takes serious practice to be able to do that. I even have trouble to center just three emitters of my DRY.
By the way, from the picture it seems that the heatsink is black color, does it mean that the heatsink is anodized or something?
And what if I want to use something better, says AS5, but which will never hardens? I tried to use AS5 and center my LED’s in DRY but the LED’s kept moving around.
It probably depends on a temperature but in my experience after 3 hours you can still move emitter but it will hold it’s place, after 6 hours you can comfortably go on with your experimentation and after 12 hours, it’s done, hard to remove anything at this point.
If you use stuff that doesn’t harden emitter will always move.
The one in your link is Arctic Alumina, which is an adhesive type. While I was using Artic Silver 5, it has no ceramic content with it and does not posses strong bond adhesion like Arctic Alumina.
Yep each one of these kind of lights has the head anodized. It doesn’t seem to matter. There isn’t close to enough amps running through each emitter to fry them.
It didn’t seem to be quite as bright with the 18650’s but I didn’t put the greatests ones in. Probably some sag involved. I would imagine with a really good set of 18650’s that it would be just as bright.