Bah, forgot to mention a thanks to O-L for mentioning 'cheap recoil on ebay' in the CK36 thread, I hardly ever bother to look there as most of the flashlight stuff is either cheap crap or overpriced crap. But I found the same listing as O-L found, mine should be here Monday.
I'm glad to see the ...whatever you call it... comes apart like that. I was afraid it was all one piece and would be a serious pain to work on, but it doesn't look too bad. Wonder what it will do with a 3 amp dedomed XPG2? We'll find out soon enough. :p
Each strut will affect the beam to some degree, but that said, I think three struts out of copper would help a lot better than one strut out of cast aluminum (and they could be thinner and still take away more heat). Cast aluminum does not transfer heat very well. It would be a challenge to make and to solder for sure, but unless I were to do one with a larger mirror and something like an MT-G2, I don’t think I would do it. The reason that the inside is rough, is to smooth out the beam overall, (I believe), so any replacement copper would also need to be rough to some extent. Probably 120 grit paper would be about right, or even 220 grit. In fact, the copper would probably need to be painted with either chrome or aluminum colored paint, for the thing to work right.
I could see some 0.50" 0r 0.75" copper sheet cut like the stock support is (three of them) and a center piece of solid copper. I would also think that the distance from the post to the mirror will have to be tested for any other led, since they will all probably focus at different distances. I would like to see it where it wasn't focused to square die on the mirror, just to see the results. Might not be worth it. The 50mm and 75mm mirrors I have found, that are in the budget range, focus at about 500mm or 1000mm, versus the one in the light that focuses at about 100mm.
I hope you guys go ahead and work all the bugs out on one, so I don't have to.
. It seems to me that the focal length of the reflector is independent of the die size so each emitter used would just produce a different sized image but focus the same distance from the reflector. Correct? Incorrect? If so then there’s no reason you couldn’t put an N219 in there on your 3 fin supports slotted into the housing.
Yeah, and no thanks for the guy who started the thread in the first place, lol.
Good to see I’ve kickstarted a bit of a recoil movement though. Maybe I’ll mod mine with a more powerful driver…. 0.4A isn’t too great.
I bought this for my son, from DX about 3 years ago. He wanted a ‘thrower’ and this was the most affordable.
Since then he acquired a Dereelight aspheric and this light has been relegated to some far-off corner of his room