Rc40vn40 is sick. 40,000 lumens
what is that surface behind the LEDs?
wow! that is some amount of light.
Its ether a coated copper HS or aluminum. Not 100% sure. He said he used his engraver and made that texture pattern on the HS to make it look more aesthetically pleasing. The surface under all the mcpcb’s is smooth.
It’s a beast. I’ll bet the battery doesn’t last very long.
If he did all of that with his little engraver I’m impressed. It would have taken forever and it’s pretty uniform.
I was wondering if he did it under the MCPCB, that would cause an uproar.
What was the selling price, I didn’t feel like logging in to request a PM for the info, lol.
I love it Alex, real work of art , but a little out of my price range right now and wonder how much use it would get before it was just stored . My rc40vnT does not get much use down to time as it is……………….imho its an amazing accomplishment and of what can be done. Easy to say any one could do it……………but they have not or thought of it.
Vinh always surprises me with his creations, more so how the heck he finds time!!! hats off and deservedly so. Thanks to vinh and others, he makes my flashlight enjoyment and interest…………….
This light is posted on forums few days ago
Yeah, it’s very bright, but the throw is horrible
It looks like” let grab all the led star i have now and put them in the light”
” with a small direct driver”
That pattern looks really good, AFAIK this is the first time someone does this, most of the time the it is just left with bare aluminum finish with the machining marks.
Curious to how the throw on a flood light is horrible, to add it reaches out to 165kcd and in my book thats is pretty good in itself…………do you know of a flood light that reaches that far?
My guess would be an alloy heat sink but dont know if it is or not. One he made for me the other year has a big solid chunk of copper but sure adds some heft(sure its around 2lb)
Being a medium size light and over 5000 OTF lumens, it can run for well past 10m at full tilt. Very useful flood light with infinite control UI.
Not in this league though!!
This light is not designed for throw which should be obvious. The fact that a light not designed for throw still hits 165kcd is very very impressive
Impressive?
You know that simply adding more light increases the cd right?
double the lumens = double the cd
or simply double the number of LED = double cd
So it’s pretty obvious that if you just add that many LEDs to a light you will get decent cd.
The fact that 40k lumens only does 165k is not impressive at all…and it’s not meant to be because this is a flood light.
The achievement is not in the brilliant idea but it is in the fact that he took the time, money and effort to do the build and do it well.
Beginning this year I modded a sodacan light with 9x (warm white) XP-L Hi’s and beefed up the circuitry to 24A (output 4500 cosy lumens). It was not new or recordbraking, it was no question if it would work or not, but it was hours of work and $54 worth of emitters, I was proud to have finished it and it was very satisfying to see the good result.
Beautiful work, the man is an Artist.
Just the routing of the wiring looks incredible, has to be hard to make it so fluid looking.
The etching looks like a fine pressed leather. Love it.
Impressive indeed, regardless of the cost.
Later,
Muto
No firefly mode. I’ll give it a miss!
Anyone knows how these wires are called ?
What do you mean?
The wires in the flashlight (OP image) .