Sorry about that, fixed image 7 with the proper image. I was tired and easily confused. That’s my story, and I’m sticking with it!
When I laid out the lights and numbered them with a piece of tape so I could keep it all straight I did so based on what I thought they put out. A couple of these are new builds, so I missed the order of power. In presenting them here, I wanted to go up in lumens so I flipped the order on a couple. Messed up on that last one, really was tired and getting lost in it all! It turns into quite a chore doing 8 lights and writing it up! lol
Then I went back and took pics of each ones reflector/optic so it’d be easy to visualize what the differences were and relate that to the output. Had to then upload and add those. You’d think that with 90 lights I’d be getting good at this by now! The memory issue really is that bad, I can forget in less time than I can memorize and I lose track of what I was doing. Sucks getting old and being flashaholically challenged. :bigsmile:
A tip for those on a computer… I like to click each image and open them in new windows then move between em and see the differences. This lets the full detail of what is different come “shining” through. These are sized at 1600x1200.
all those x6’s are really something else. u hold the record for brightest x6’s thats for sure. that x6 with the custom tube and xhp70 is incredible. nice looking beam also. great job there!
and that shocker needs a name, it really do deserve one haha. man , it musta been reflex or something, cus when i got to that beam shot, i squinted my eyes like it was real life. hahah
thanks for the time you took to show us these great pictures and of your masterpieces!
You are right Scott, thanks for noticing that, i was curious if it was the same hight as the cute-4.
The C12285_ANGIE-S is 10,67 mm + 1,45mm & the cute-4 ss is 15mm + 1,5mm.
As far as i can see the GT4 is shorter than the C12285_ANGIE-S
Another thing i noticed in the data sheet is the C12285_ANGIE-S
support a lot of different led’s
I like that each TIR is clear of the other, with the CUTE-4 they’re merged. I like that too, and might try it for a similar but different build.
This Angie is 10.7mm tall, pretty much between the GT4 and CUTE-4, with individual TIR diameters about double that of a Carclo quad that is also shorter.
Could you measure how deep & wide the opening for the led’s are in the angie?
On the cute-4 they are rather shallow, so i am a bit worried that the XP-L’s with domes still on will destructively dedome themselves.
The CUTE-4 opening for the led’s are ~5,05mm wide & ~2,70mm deep.
Interesting that the Angie TIR’s don’t merge, i hadn’t noticed that.
A crazy idea, do you think 4 XHP50 with one of these quad optics & a 2xbattery mod, would have a higher output than your XHP70 with the 2xbattery & Minnie M reflector.
They should be good for about 2000 lumens each
at least x 4…….could get pretty bright
The one I had at 4 amps was in a p60 (admittedly, not the best thermal transfer) Solarforce host, and it unsoldered an emitter wire from the Noctigon in about 7 seconds.
Even in a bigger host (F13 head with DST battery tube) the head is too hot to touch after about 30 seconds. I had it running for a little over a minute without problems, but then when I turned it off and laid it down on the floor it actually melted some of our cheap carpet.
edit: By no means should that stop anyone else from trying an XHP50 quad in an X6, but I won’t be doing it
At just 9 mm the GT3/4 is simply too short to focus well and is small dome only without mods. The Angie beam looks slightly broader than cute-3 so I wonder how the Angie would compare to a cute-4. That extra 4+ mm is a nice space saver.
Actually Scott, shining the two of em (CUTE-3 and Angie) from about 24’ in the house the Angie has about a 2’ smaller hot spot. The Angie covers an 8’ wall at 24’ while the CUTE-3 has an overlap of a foot or more on floor and ceiling at the same distance.
I used the copper heat sink from the triple plus 4.3mm 6.4mm more copper for the Angie. Lot of copper under those 4 emitters! Feels nice and solid in the hand too. It’s enough my favorite that I added 4 Trits to it and it’s in my pocket.