OSRAM CSLNM1.TG & CULNM1.TG 1mm², CSLPM1.TG & CULPM1.TG 2mm²

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I wish someone would make a new thread solely about focusing thrower LEDs with steps, tips and best practices. It’s one of those things people talk about but never in detail. When I made a thread about how crappy my spring bypasses were everyone chimed in and I think it was very helpful basic topic (to me) to rehash after so long.

This applies to all LEDs, not just throwers.

Light collimation with an LED flashlight

As most of you already know, it is impossible to collimate all light from an LED flashlight since it is not an infinitely small point of light. However, for the purpouse of this topic, I will attempt to explain how to “collimate” a light source as best as possible in order to obtain the maximum amount of throw. First of all, we begin with a collimation template made by drawing shapes in sketchup, exporting as a transparent image, trimming away extra transparent pixels in photoshop, and t…