Best LED for aspheric lens

[Agro]

@kramer5150

@Agro

@Chicken Drumstick

Think I’m going to order up an XHP50.2 in 5000k and try that with the driver that is in the host now. I’ve tried holding the lens over my C8 with the reflector removed and the beam looks much more useful.

I know it will loose a ton of throw, but it just isn’t of any use currently, apart from as a pointer. I’ll do some beamshots/vid showing this later in the week.

For the record I’ve just been using the ceilingbounce app on my Android phone to try and get a lux reading. It seems quite hit and miss and huge variance. So take the numbers for what they are.

Calibration light was a Maglite ML25LT which mag rates at 28,473cd I was getting bang on 30,000cd

My Noctigon KR1 was getting 98,000cd with the W2 LED (100,000cd is claimed on the Int’l Outdoor site)

The 1504 was getting 522,000cd

Which I think is a cracking number from this setup. Glad I’ve built it, but I think the Osram LED will be finding a home in a different light now.

Slice and dice it. Otherwise the beam will be quite bad…

Argo… what do you mean by “quite bad” ?… by that you mean a de-focused die image correct?

Chicken-D… cool do post back your results, good or bad. I was messing with my 1504 the other day. Took apart and remembered a couple things about it.

1. The pill is reverse threaded into the body.
2. I never correctly painted the pill matte black. Apparently I was in a hurry and just used a black marker pen. It resulted in all kinds of spotty beam artifacts. I just now spray painted it correctly… waiting for it to dry as I type.

No problem with focusing but tint shift will be bad.

BTW, no hard feelings but I’m Agro.
Argo is my parents dog. Coincidence, they didn’t know about my nick when they named the dog.

[kramer5150]

oops sorry Agro… just a typo.