Contest Light - 3rd place prize light -- Super Shocker: the king of multi-emitter throwers (I think?)

blueb8llz · June 11, 2014, 4:28am

Tom E:

blueb8llz:

truly remarkable. thanks for the detailed pictures on the mod. i still believe i have the brighest super shocker though hehe. its was built by you as well, not sure if you remember, but i went with domes on. and numbers were 5440 at start and 5114 30 secs. throw is only 240kcd though. i still love the light, there are times when i want to dedome them, since the lumens are too much when dedomed, but its the yellowing i dont like from the dedome.

Hi Ray! Yes - all true. I think when I first wrote the post, I said best #’s from any Shocker, then later edited the post to any de-domed Shocker. Actually if this one was domed - the lumens may be 200-400 lumens brighter than yours! I’ve been learning as I go. Wish I could get the ones I’ve done in the past back for tweaking a little more .

really u wish? thats good to know! and i thought i would be bothersome if i asked if i could ever send it back to you for additional upgrade to dedome.
nice that your skills have improved and gotten better since the early super shocker days, but not sure if the additional tweaks are worth the shipping to and back.
if i ever decide to go with the dedomed route, ill be sure to let you know.

keep up the great work!

djozz · June 11, 2014, 6:29am

Very nice detailed mod story, Great to read

comfychair · June 11, 2014, 6:32am

Anybody happen to have jotted down the overall outside dimensions on the Shocker's reflector?

Tom_E · June 11, 2014, 11:10am

I got a spare reflector sitting around. 91.54mm x 47.25mm outer dimensions. I assume you meant overall outer?

MRsDNF · June 11, 2014, 11:21am

You just so happen to have a spare reflector kicking around? Wanna sell it?

Tom_E · June 11, 2014, 12:04pm

It's beat up. When dremel'ing the backside, I slightly broke thru the front side at the edges around the LED hole. I don't think it's functionally doing much harm. Someone wanted just the Shocker body so I sold it - he wasn't interested in the reflector.

comfychair · June 11, 2014, 12:06pm

Yikes! Way too big. Back to the original plan...

dazed1 · June 22, 2014, 11:12pm

OMG EPIC!

RaceR86 · June 22, 2014, 11:39pm

Sweet!

Funny, we extended the driver contact board in almost the same way! :)

I have to revisit my ("super") Shocker mod and short the resistors on the driver. Might give me a little bit extra peak output. ^^

Thanks.

Tom_E · June 23, 2014, 12:11am

I dunno what happened with those drivers. I did a bunch of these Super Shockers and didn't bridge the resistors. With this one, I needed to get the amps up - was low, and the bridging seemed to do the trick - actually got the best I ever got, but didn't always use 20 AWG wires between the contact and the driver and also from the driver to the LED's, was using 22.

OMG - I can't type after a bottle of wine - think I retyped every other word .

southland · June 23, 2014, 3:57am

That is an awesome mod, very nice work.

Ejected_Filament · June 23, 2014, 4:05am

wine wine wine

Rufusbduck · July 4, 2014, 8:16am

:bigsmile: I finished third. :bigsmile: sending you a pm, Tom. Happy 4th.

makapuu · July 4, 2014, 8:29am

The mad scientist is still going at it. LOL I still have mine Tom, and it’s still as impressive as ever. Keep pushing.

DBSAR · July 4, 2014, 8:34am

You will be very happy with the Tom-E BTU. i bought one last year, its a monster thrower !

Tom_E · July 4, 2014, 10:58am

Oh Wow! Congrats Scott! It's all ready.

scotlarock · July 4, 2014, 2:39pm

Hey Tom,
Beautiful light you have built! Your work is always top-notch. Every light you have built for me has the same attention to detail as this shocker, including the one I accidentally threw in the trash. Great work and a great guy to boot! Congratulations.

lionheart_2281 · July 5, 2014, 9:28am

So jealous, I’d give my left nut for a TomE shocker!