just completed my first triple

Flashlight Modding and DIY Parts
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I’ll post this properly tomorrow, for now, I’d like to say a huge thanks to nitro, ruffles, chicago x and my dad.

Nitro for providing the host and shipping it to ruffles very quickly, ruffles for getting the ball rolling on the triple build by contacting chicago x, , shipping parts to Chicago x then carrying the host and parts over to England when he went on his jollies and posting the kit to me from England, saving me a pile of cash, chicago x for providing the triple u2 board, dry turbo driver and optics and machining me an awesome heat sink and my dad for turning out a threading tool so I could scrape out the poorly finished heatsink threads in the head, to allow the build to commence.

I’ve just finished it tonight and even on semi charged cells, damm! its bright and floody :heart_eyes:

Here’s a few quick accessible pictures.

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Head with threads scraped out, threading tool and heat sink.

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close up of the scraped threads, this part took some serious time let me tell you.
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Glamour shot of the business end, if I remember correctly from chicago x’s thread it should be good for 3000+ lumens and really makes a skyray king obsolete for me, I love this light.

Here’s a couple of in hand shots.

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That is so nice Gords. I hope you post more pics. Eventually, I want to build a triple, but have no idea what I need. Beamshots?

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Sounds like a full on intercontinental operation to bring that project together! Nice one!

Looks like a bad ass light. I remember you mentioning it and was curious to see it completed.

I am not disappoint.
:slight_smile:

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its not so much a beam as a sheer wall but I’ll try, on turbo it just about reaches where my edc’s reach, but the whole side of the building is lit up J)

I do really really like the host, my suggestion would be to get one of these extreme runtime hosts from cnqg, also order the series battery carrier they do, or see if ric will substitute the parallel holder for the series one (its $8 for the holder but saves a serious headache with changing the holder). Then speak to chicago x about a heatsink and optic trim ring, you want a 35mm board (I think) and optics to suit and a driver appropriate for 3 emitters in series.

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ruffles blew me away with his help to be honest, I really wish we could have met up while he was over but his itinary sort of got on the way. The light is for me, all the more awesome as it is a complete forum build, its special in a way any other light simply could not be.

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What a story gords. Like has been mentioned by many before, there really are a lot off very nice people here and I say that with nice meaning more than just nice. Generous, helpful, the best of human nature etc. Scraping that thread out with your threading tool would of been a work off patience and sweat. Well done on the build.

I see gords getting deeper and deeper into this modding. With the soon to be very large garage can we soon be seeing bigger and greater creations from the Monster Garage of gords?

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The triple XM-L U2 board and CUTE-3 optics were purchase from Cutter in Australia, so three continents were involved in this build.

Congrats on your lumen cannon, gords1001 !

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Very nice.
Now thats a heat sink !

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Very Nice! Who would have thought there would be "International Mods"??? Nice light and a great way to bring the world together!! That project would have only taken the US Governmet 7 years and 45 Billion $$$! Ha!

Congrats! Dan.

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Great build Gords! Its nice to see so many people working together on making one light happen. Thanks for sharing.
How hot is that light after say, 7 min on full power?

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I’ll find out tonight hopefully, only finished it at half ten last night and mrs gords was feeling neglected I think. I suspect it will shed the heat pretty well though, the heatsink is 55 grams and it fits the heads threads very well after scraping out the threads, there is a lot of surface contact between heatsink and head.

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under test, two minutes in, fins warm to touch. two year old flashed daddy on turbo, daddy now has huge purple 3 leaf clover pattern in vision…… :cowboy_hat_face:

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LOL

Very nice light Graham, congrats

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seven minutes in, fins hot to touch, body tube warmed, batteries above lukewarm. This is in an 18ºc room tailstanding with no cooling on turbo (direct drive) @3.8v per cell I was seeing 3.2a at the switch, I expect it to be closer to 4a+ at 4.2v/cell (charged cells last night, they are somewhat fresh this morning), I will do further current tests tonight hopefully, but its my dads birthday (built him a cnqg d1 3a 3mode xm-l 4c for his birthday) so I will be tied up till later on.

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this thing is awesome spas, my customer was hellish impressed when I turned it on in the back of the van, he carries an incan mini mag lol, its a touch brighter than that.

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LOOKS really good G

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Bwaaaaahaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!

He could bundle 300 of those together, and yours would still be brighter...

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Sweet build!

Happy to have been able to provide a tiny bit of the equation, but clearly the hard work was put in by you and ChiX.

And this is a good push to get me off my #$@# and build the almost-twin to this one. (Same host, PilotPTK driver/emitter, plus an absolutely excessive heatsink…)

Looking forward to a few wall-of-light-shots.

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Here are a few more pics of the heatsink:

New one on the left, next to the original hollow version:

IIRC, the original one weighed in at ~19 grams. This one is a bit beefier:

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Nice job. The best of BLF comes out when members collaborate. I like it!