Dang Nitro! You converted my entire payment into 32mm Noctigons! lol
I don’t know how many Hank has left, the site has been showing 168 since he restocked em and I know that can’t be right. I got my 9… figured even if I don’t need em now, who knows where they’ll come in handy later on. Right?
I have a 6” circle of 1/8” thick 304SS that I picked up for free at the welding shop. He’d cut it out of a plate on a project he had recently completed. This sits perfectly on the 6” small burner on our induction stove top. At a setting of about 4 1/2 I let it heat up for about 5 minutes, then place the star on it and watch the magic! The big thing re-flowing emitters is how little solder paste it actually takes. If you don’t have paste, you can touch the pad with some solder on your iron and let it “tin” that way. The emitter sit’s all wonky on top of the hardened solder but when it heats up on the stove it magically jumps into place.
This was experimenting with the bigger XHP70, putting it on a copper pedestal so it’d fit the XM-L star. The magic happens at the very end of this short video (solder starts melting at about 39 seconds) if you don’t care to hear me talking about it and the phone ringing…
got it...but few for got your forum name on the paypal note section so please post that........but its good that u guys post that u paid on this thread as well
Will, it’s got neither. I stacked 6 copper stars under the 32mm Noctigon and reflowed it all together on the stove, in the light. That was partly my inspiration to draw up and make the full contact sink. I figured it could only help to fill the entire head, essentially extending the original light upwards to meet the 32mm mcpcb as demanded by the 35mm optics.
Just paid for 1 copper triple kit. I just noticed that the kits were really meant for non-US members. I'm actually in the US, so if you need to change my order to just the heatsink, please let me know. Thanks.