Well then no congrats to you, because you can have a reflector that’s great for throw, but not necessarily hot for flood and vice versa. Snide comments aside, you could just get something like a BLF GT, which happens to have a rather large flat at the focal plane, and add a ring of LEDs there. And it still probably wouldn’t have as good a flood as if it had a shorter reflector. So no matter what, there’s always some compromise - I won’t call a possible 40-50 degree beam much of a flood, but I suppose it’s all relative. For you, 10 degrees is probably considered flood.
But there probably are more oddball ideas out there… how about making a recoil flashlight, that has a forward facing COB in the center where the aperture is? The SyniosBeam has a large aperture on the reflector, which would fit a nice sized COB. Something scaled down to a more familiar format might be cool?
Reflectors are inherently inefficient and inflexible.
A movable lens can offer the most throw but if it is fully retracted to the led it can offer flood almost as good as a mule.
I did some ray tracing….and it looks to me like it would produce a hole in the middle of the beam. Not because of the LED blocking light but purely because of reflector shape and position.
That’s a pretty unique light right there zoomie reflector
Yup, that’s right.
Moving the reflector closer to the LED will make flood but with an increasing dead spot in the middle, even if the LED has a super small 10mm mcpcb it will be amplified in size.
Snide comments aside, you could just get something like a BLF GT, which happens to have a rather large flat at the focal plane, and add a ring of LEDs there. And it still probably wouldn’t have as good a flood as if it had a shorter reflector. So no matter what, there’s always some compromise - I won’t call a possible 40-50 degree beam much of a flood, but I suppose it’s all relative. For you, 10 degrees is probably considered flood.
zoomie reflector