I don't intend to do any more testing at this point.
Ok, I understand.....
Thanks for the hard work! highly appreciated!
More photos in the OP, parts are ready for Anodizing.
Looking really great! 
Also very curious to see the result after anodizing, is it going to be a black semi matte or a shiny anodizing to match the maglite?
I don’t know for sure, never had any anodizing done before. I really think it will be matte. Bright costs more usually, so matte is kind of the standard.
Thanks OL. ChibiM, we must be very careful in analyzing OL’s results. The battery one and battery two results must be treated as separate sets.
- In the “Battery One” testing the Wavien collar was 0.48% better than the bare LED. The Mag collar was worse than the bare LED.
- In the “Battery two” testing the Wavien collar was only 0.09% better than the bare LED (best focus case). The best focus case for the Mag collar was 0.29% better in this case.
What’s also worthy of remark is that between the two battery tests we see that battery one gets the bare LED lux 1% higher than battery two - but the gains from the Wavien collar do not stay steady! They are much better with battery one than battery two for some reason.
All told, here’s what I see:
- Yes, they both kind of suck. This hinges on what you are looking for though. Once all other avenues are exhausted, this becomes the only path towards increasing lux.
- This testing has been done with a big-die emitter, maybe we can get closer to 1-5% improvements from smaller die emitters? Focus is certainly key and in the pictures comfychair showed I recall that the spot generated from his Mag collar was quite small. I think it was not enough to cover an SST-90 die. Take a look at Post #6 over here, comfychair - 64mm aspheric - which LED?
- OL’s testing was quite granular. It shows what range we could expect benefits to be in with this setup. I’d guess probably no more than 1% best case for this setup.
- OL’s testing also shows that focus is key. OL easily reduced the lux with the Mag collar and one must assume that if a person messes up badly enough they can also reduce the lux using a Waiven collar. (perhaps by using the wrong size?)
- It’s possible that using alligator clips and magnets may have contributed to measurement error. This depends partly on Vf headroom and what current the light was regulated at. In DD I think it’s certain that the clips/magnets would mess with the results a little.
Anyway, thanks again OL. I’m definitely intrigued.
I imagine, once I get the parts anodized and the driver is done, I will do another set of tests and use the set of NiMH cells as well as a set of mnke Li-ion cells.
Might of missed but what dover are u going to use
The ones I use for the Mag mods. 7135 based driver with momentary switch.
02/10/15 Still waiting on anodized parts... But, I did take some shots of the things I will try to reach out to.
Photos in the bottom of the OP.
Wow. Good luck on the pictures and dont let anyone catch you up there.
OL,
That is some mighty long lighting you are going to be trying. Also very exciting. Part of me wants to be there when you start up each light to be amazed and to be giggling when you light something up from a separate zip code.
Anodized parts came in 02/21/15. Photos in the OP.
Finished on 03/17/15 and beam shots are in Post #1
Impressive build.
Last long distance light? 
Built only as you can OL. Congrats on the achievement and what another amazing creation. The new owner must have super human eye sight. Whats next on the agenda. A holiday to the Bahamas? 
What a massive amount of work. I hope the owners appreciation matches the heft. TP should have one of these for illuminating night time rocket launches from a distance.
Very impressive build……
It may just melt the rocket before it launches. The beam shots look totally dangerous. 
as a build STRATEGY though? i love it…
a big, wide, lens… mounted over a big powerful well-driven emitter.
the length of the MAG LITE could be tamed, for instance, by multiple large capacity li-ions in parallel.
is it the sky ray lights that have the 4 fat tubes under the emitters? like that…
a scaled-down version of this, i might see working really well for a “deer spotting light”. Us hunters have a designated “spotlight” season where we are permitted to ride around (no rifles, lol) at night with spotlights, looking to see where the deer are at… if 2 MILES is “iffy” its hardly a fail of anything… i am picturing a couple/several hundred yards out, maybe its powerful enough to actually “zoom out a little” to widen the beam.
i immensely loved this build thread… quite entertaining and thought provoking.
really cool.