This is what a 4,000 lumen SRK can do to your batteries if left on high for too long.

Thank her for the pictures. :stuck_out_tongue:

Heh, yeah I’ve done the same thing, left the SRK on too long room lighting…I luckily caught it before that happened, but the thing was so hot I could barely touch it to turn it off. Mine’s not modded though, I’m sure yours is much much more dangerous!

Sucks! But thank goodness nothing more happened :-)

More reason to hope DrJones or texaspyro come out with their SRK drivers soon. It'll be nice to have thermal management.

LOL

I just let her know you said thanks.

She laughed and said you’re welcome.

Gets hot fast for sure.

Yep no harm no foul. I have extra wrappers so no biggie at all.

I was surprised it didn’t melt the solder off the stars. They are on sinkpads and I do have extra heatsinking on this one under the pill. It just transfers heat really fast I guess.

lol.

only because nothing really bad happened

You should be glad that your house is still there :bigsmile:

When your led is on a Sinkpad, and the Sinkpad is mounted ok, the heat transfers so fast that the board temperature is hardly higher than the body temperature, the solder will never melt.

Thank your darling wife for taking on your testing duties for us that you are to scared to do yourself. What a wonderful girl. Can you get her to talk to my wife about being a little reasonable? The cattle prodder doesn’t work on mine anymore. :_(

Yep lucky nothing bad happened and I’m sure the emitters wouldn’t take that abuse without the sinkpads.

Cattle prodders are outdated. You need a hybrid Taser/flashlight combo like I have. >) Zap her with the strobe mode, hit her with the Taser then run like hell.

Speaking of dumb things to do. I once got drunk and was dared to put one of those fly zapper things that look like a tennis racket on my tongue. (I quit drinking a while back for good reason) It hurt a lot, but what was really odd was that only half my tongue went numb. The right side was completely numb for a day and the left side was perfectly fine. Things tasted odd that day too.

Smile. My boss at work did a similar thing with a 2.8A S3 - it got too hot to hold, hard to turn off without buring your hand, but no damage whatsoever. The copper stars do amazingly incredible. Guess the only bad thing is nothing melts or breaks off, so everything keeps on goin til the battery voltage sags enough.

hahaha, I shock myself with one of those electric mosquito racket too! For me, it shocked my right ear. I literally cannot feel my right ear for 3 days. Fortunately, hearing is almost complete recovered!

There is more voltage on those things than I thought. Glad your hearing is ok.

There seems to be a common theme here apart from the stupidity. It seems these tennis racket zappers (yes we had them for the kids as well but never tried them on a human) is that it only affects half. Half a tongue and only half your ears. Hmm, strange.

We didn't have any fancy tennis racket zappers, but we did have an electric livestock fence. Rest assured that thing was peed upon with hilarious results.

Tenniis?

JUICE!

What's the amp pull of that beast?

Did it stress the batteries max current ability (aka make them run hot), or did the light just get too hot because it was burning like the sun?