Super-bright floody wide-angle headlamp with separate (belt clip) battery pack

[Mike_C]

@owkaye

do you think there’s a single COB available that can give me anywhere near the 180 degree spread I’m hoping for? Or a lens that might spread the light that much from a single COB?

Near 180 degree spread? Why not aim for a simple mule construction? Just take your regular LED on your regular MCPCB, no lens, no reflector, and you’ll have 180 degrees spread. Of coarse you will want a protective lens of some sort, so you just need to have the LED as close to the lens as you want to find the angle you want.

Here are a two CRX mule builds to illustrate:

Convoy S2 Shorty Rechargeable Mule

A super short Convoy S2, well it’s just the head actually, one i had spare. XP-G2 S4 2B emitter Electronic side switch Olight s10 3 mode driver 200mAh lipo cell TP 4056 charging board Charging indicator Potted Weight - 32g Red locator LED operating at 1.5mA Max – 260lm cd – 100 Throw – 20m [image]

Copper & Aluminium Mule Build

[image] Another wee torch for you today I built this copper & aluminium triple mule flashlight out of some 3/4” plumbers pipe, 1” aluminium tube and some other bits ’n pieces I had with the usual hacksaw and hand files. It has an S6 brass pill filed down and soldered into the copper tube along with a filed down brass retaining ring holding the reverse clicky switch. I’ve used a slightly different design with this light, incorporating a sliding inner core held in place by friction and …