2nd. Annual BLF Scratch Made Light Contest is CLOSED - WINNERS results have been posted in the OP!

Giveaways and Contests
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Have I missed anyone who has started a thread? Look in Post#1 for the links. I'm not here enough these days and I feel like I am missing some links.

I hope the rest of the contestants start soon. Time is going to be a problem soon, for those who wait.Wink

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Well, I have to say, I am seeing some very interesting builds this year. The kinds of things that just make you say WOW.

I also see many who haven't started yet, or haven't gotten very far, but there's still time. It's just getting shorter every day!Tongue Out

For those of you who can't do or finish your builds, we all know life gets in the way when you least expect it, so my best wishes that life calms down for you and maybe next year, if not this year...

Thanks to all the contestants so far, for some wonderful photos and awesome work. I can't hardly wait to see the finish line!

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OK, it's June now. Less than a month to go and I see a few awesome mods, but I see a bunch of names with no links to their mods!

Contestants, have I missed your thread?

Let me know if you don't see yours linked in Post #1 here.


Not much time to go...

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List of Contestants that I DO NOT have a link to their thread

Hand Made

djozz

JaredM

driveX

Nightbird95

Adam706

PH_Oton

18sixfifty

nofearek9

CyrusAM

relic38

furythings

sandalian

Helios-

Serifus

Firelight2

NightCrawl

texaspyro

onetrickpony

HBomb

Major

Machine Made

wight

vestureofblood

mattthemuppet

TexasLumens

kralyevski

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I have it on very good authority that TexasLumens has been burning the midnight oil working.

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Only one month left? :open_mouth:

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wow, wild mod Vinh !:slight_smile: MT-G2 flood monster.

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I wanted to make this light a bit more unique than the typical TN35vn as it bear the Fiat Lux name :slight_smile:

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The extra engraving on the head of the light adds a very nice touch too. great work :slight_smile:

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nice work on that tn35vn…now we all know your secrets into modding a light hahah jp

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:slight_smile:

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If 99.9% of us here tried this the light would never, I repeat never work again.

Nice work vihn and thanks for joining in on the fun and for some agony of the OL comp.

Two greats in the one sentence, sentences dont get any better than that.

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Thanks!

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Your welcome. Many of us as modders and Builders here are envious of the stuff you can do.

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Vinh, that is Freakin Awesome!! Thank you So Much for doing the mod! It's beautiful!

Here's a repost of Vinh's build on this great light. I put them on my photo site, since I have unlimited bandwidth.

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I completed the Super Shocker mod for the 3rd place prize of the contest. Here is the mod thread: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/27054. It still has a way to go - may have to complete it tomorrow.

This is, without a doubt, the best performing Super Shocker I've done. It has de-domed XM-L2 U2 1A's on Noctigons. Just when I was getting bored and tired of doing the same light over and over again, I was able to come up with a couple of new tricks to squeeze a little more out of it to keep it interesting. Here's some specifics:

  • I spent more time/effort on the battery carrier. I feel loss's of voltage from resistance due to the carrier are a significant effect, specially on direct drive designs
  • a couple of changes in setting the de-domed LED's, resulting in a better fit, more lumens/throw
  • still using the same driver (IOS, LCK-LED, etc.) but now I am bridging the resistors which didn't seem necessary before when using the older IOS drivers
  • I'm using NO-OX-ID now from IlluminationSupply on all contact points
  • using 20 AWG wires between the contact board and driver, and for the LED leads off the driver (have used 22 AWG in the past)

Results:

  • with a set of freshly charged LG HE2 2500 mAh cells, measured 6.44A across the switch
  • lumens: 4,964 at start - 4,726 at 30 secs (in my PVC lightbox)
  • throw: 495 kcd measured at 5m

When measuring amps, I literally saw a 6 inch spark one time at one of the DMM leads by the switch!! The 6.44 amps is the highest I've gotten from any light or mod. It's not a measurement at the LED, but since it's a 3S cell to 3S LED effectively a direct drive, I'm thinking it's very close to what the LED's are getting.

For lumens and throw measurements, immediately following the Shocker measurements, I measured my stock NOVA MM15 light: 5,250 lumens at 30 secs, and 18 kcd. The factory ANSI specs for this light is 5,233 lumens and 19.6 kcd, so I think my measurements are in the ballpark. The variation in throw is not surprising, since LED alignment and reflector variances can effect this easily.

The lumens OTF measurement of 4,726 is the highest I've gotten from any of the dozen de-domed Super Shockers I've done.

For throw, this is the highest I've ever measured. There were brief times the throw exceeded 500 kcd (max'ed out at the 10X scale on the meter). I'm speculating the actual throw is higher than 500 kcd if measured at a longer distance, based on a de-domed Super Shocker rdrfronty measured, at 15m, compared to my measurements at 5m of the same exact light at the time.

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Nice ! :slight_smile: definitely a “Super” shocker now.

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That's really Fantastic Tom! I am so thankful that you are modding that Shocker. Someone is going to get one hell of a light!