Orsm light. The workmanship and effort put into this light is amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Can you explain to me why the collar is as large as it is? Couldn’t it be just slightly larger than the LED? The distance from reflector to LED is the same as the distance back to the LED so the aim should be the same even though a smaller reflector’s angles would be wider. It also seems a larger reflective surface would need to be more precisely smoothed and positioned.
BTW, very impressive work and thanks for sharing.
OMG, Gaston! That is simply amazing! I had to read the throw figures 3 times before I was sure I was seeing one MILLION three hundred and fifty THOUSAND candela. Good lord! What a fantastic job! You didn't just build your own Deft X, you smashed it into the ground and doubled it's throw. Mighty impressive work. 
1.3Mcd!
We’re talking about over 2km of throw! 
Santo cielos! Es un láser de color blanco. Del dicho al hecho hay muuucho trecho! pero no lograste, huevón lo superaste! Ya el foco tuyo es el cima. Quedo buenísimo.
Nice work, and very impressive figures you’re seeing.
I would like to see verification of those figures measured at greater than 6meters though.
Call me skeptical but I consistently see artificially higher candela figures when taking measurements below 10 meters. The beam isn’t really formed yet at that range (provided the focus is set for maximum throw) so I’d be really interested in seeing what kind of difference in throw (if any) you get when measuring at longer ranges i.e >50meters.
Oh and if you’re not happy with the look of that plumbing pipe, have you thought about finding and combining some cheap lens hoods/filter rings on ebay that will fit that 78mm lens? It’s a good size lens for that kind of approach! 
Keep up the great work
Cheers
Linus
“Poor Guy” borrows the body of his TK75… 
This is really nice work, but your definition of poor differs from mine.
Thank you all for the comments, make me very happy 
, and encourages me to share with you my same passion, I regret not having done it before….
Hi
Sorry I can not explain how it really works this necklace is that it is very complex and is beyond my knowledge…
When came this technology, also ask to try to see how it works but got no specific answers so I decided to buy it and experiment with the.
Yes! in the city, I get light to the naked eye, some water tanks very high towers located 1.5 km according to google earth, I’ll try to take pictures of it 
Buen español! muchas gracias
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I too would like to compare values with some of you but we are far unfortunately…remember that the head is moving and lets you focus at the desired distance, inside my house fully measured from 3 to 9 mts mts focusing on die each measure correctly and I had no variation to convert values to 1 mts, instead on my mods flashlights with reflector always find variations measured at different distances above, not very big but variations at the end….
Measurements at close range really hurts sight watching the die, the light spot is in my eyes for a few minutes :~
Also, I will try to make measurements tens of meters, when given the opportunity
very nice work!
I agree... With aspheric lenses you should got slightly bigger readings but not much and with reflector flashlight lower readings.
Ah yes, forgot you said you had a zoom ability. That would indeed improve the accuracy of measurements at various shorter distances compared with a fixed focus lens tuned for long range performance.
I’d still encourage a long range test to reduce the margin of error on distance and am curious to see how the numbers shake down.
I was so impressed with this, I began experimenting with a really poor man’s collar. I had a couple of cheap parabolic reflectors from some old solar spotlights, so I cut the top off and proceeded to try and wrap my head around the concept. It seems like you get maximum results by focusing the light back on the emitter, it worked! Then I played with a couple of lenses from old binoculars and a large magnifying glass. Finding the right focal length may be a challenge but it is definitely doable.
Check out the Courui link in my signature, we’ve been looking at some cheap diy collar options. Up to now melon ballers seem to be a pretty good budget option
I wonder what would happen if you drilled about 3 holes in the collar, evenly spaced. Then focused three 445nm laser beams of say about 150mw each on the phosphor. Hmmmm
Now I enter the doubt …. :~
Anyone know how many meters are measured the 1000 kcds of the true Deft-x?
I know that Michael delivered a certificate with kcds and has its calibrated equipment…
I got a place with 20 mts free to measure the flashlight this weekend I will upload the results
I have a cheap lux meter, but with standard flashlights always gave me logical values very similar to those I read in the forums for example :
I saved these values when they were std, measured at 6 mts
Jacob A60 68 kcds
Thunite TN31 120kcds
Fenix tk75 (xml-t6) 98 kcds
Small sun C10s 65 kcds
I think they are within normal values :~
I think 20 meters is good enough.
It’s always good to verify readings under different parameters just to be sure. I’m sure your meter is fine though.
You didn’t by chance take a reading before installing the wavien collar? Would be very interesting to see just how much you gained by installing it correctly and fine tuning the focus.
I understand, I am going to make ….
Yes! that was a very important data without the collar was in 680-690 kcds, after install I was just above 1000 kcds! was already very happy after a time (it always happens) I want more performance :evil: I tried with other leds, give more A, current draw without notice improvements…. so arm and disarm begin to notice changes without changing anything electronic :~ so I found that the collar was making a big difference
Cool so you started at 680-690kcd & doubled that Nice very nice
You could upgrade the XP-G2 to an higher flux bin they come in as high as S3 i think thats 2 or 3 flux bin steps over your R5
Yes, I thought, but I will work it took me to leave it at that value and how sensitive is the focus, for that reason I will not do 
maybe win some ended up losing much… besides collar is strongly glued and the glass is very delicate 0:)