DIY Wavien Collar?

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djozz was experimenting with something similar except he was applying a coating directly onto the LED, might give you some ideas…

making a reflective ring on a XM-L led-dome by silver deposition

I like to experiment, and was thinking of trying this for quite some time. A few weeks ago I did the actual experimentation, but the results were a bit disappointing so I hesitated doing the write-up. But I believe it is just fair to not just report your successes, but also the failures, and it involved quite some work, so here we go The idea was to deposit a silver layer directly onto a led-dome, to accomplish that the light going sideways (and is lost when the led is used in a aspheric le…