Eliminate the MCPCB?

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Match's Mods: Emitter to Copper Reflow in a 1C mag mod (How To)

Sidenote: As far as I can tell, this is the only post out there detailing exactly how to mount an emitter directly to copper and not simply reflow onto another star. Gentlemen, This was going to start off as just another stubby mag mod (Yea Match, we've seen it....), but seeing as how that's been covered many times I decided this one needed a new twist: [image] What we have here is a Cree T6 xm-l directly mounted to a rather large chunk of copper pressed into a custom aluminum pill. Le…

Results: Direct bonded XM-L emitter to Copper

Gentlemen, Here are my results from testing a Cree XM-L T6 that I directly soldered to a pure copper slug. Other than eliminating the star, this test was performed much like my other emitter tests. [image] [image] And without further ado, here are the results: [image] I have super-imposed the new data on top of my previous xm-l star mounted data for an easy comparison. To say the least, I found the data shocking! I knew these pcb's were holding emitters back, but never thought it woul…