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The idea for this flashlight originated from an open-source project by a Chinese flashlight enthusiast, a project series called “Light Hammer.” The author permitted its use for all legal and ethical profit-making purposes, such as printing, assembling, and reselling by yourself.
Cyansky’s version has clearly made many changes, but in terms of appearance and name, they have obviously referenced the original project. They at least owe the original author and the open-source project a thank you in the product description.
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ONLY?? LOL, No, not really.
This light I build from scratch more than a decade ago, can hold more, 12xpg2 running at 1.5A and it has TIR optic, and some decent throw, active cooling, side uv triple running at 1A, and amber back lights with 5 modes.
Or this one, 6 xhp50, can hold around 10k lm as long as batteries last, active cooling, 3 separate rear facing leds, red amber and UV.
Both can be used as hammers, or be used as a strike device, with no adverse effects, unlike a 3D printed Lights that I would be afraid to drop, I have designed and build 3D printed lights and other items, One of them I build for a scratch build contests here on BLF, many years ago. I have not build anything for many years, due to getting 2 kids, maybe when they grow up a bit I’ll have time to continue, hopefully.
Link to my 2019 contest 3D printed light.
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It’s for the clickbait, guys, lol…he’s just gonna dismiss you as haters and keep doing what he’s doing…
That’s a sick build, @alpg88 . Time to update with dedomed 519’s, maybe?
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The imalent ms32’s as well..
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Thanks. When i’m able to do it again, I’ll build new lights with 519, or something else, I rarely update these, I just build new ones, that is how I ended up with about 2 dozens, most of those are given away to friends. While I’m unable to build for now, i’m very much able to come up with ideas and make sketches. I also buy parts and materials if I come across something interesting, I have some crazy ideas, but they will have to wait.
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So…hear me out with this one…if you could build a super high RPM light with conductive high speed bearings as terminals, you could create a “pwm-esque” flood light using minimal directional lighting. So one light source that puts out 10kcd at 1000 lumens could be spun rapidly, essentially creating a high pwm 360 degree halo of flood. Not sure how much power it would draw to spin that fast or how much the components would cost to implement, but it’s an interesting concept I’ve had for the longer part of 20 years lol…just never got around to it. Another idea would be to keep the light source steady and spin a mirror instead, like a light house
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I do not really need to spin a light source, I could spin a mirror, or multiple mirrors, or even prisms. I actually did think to build something like a Gandalf stick with a 360 light
Or a more realistic approach
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The issue is that with each additional facet or reflective surface, the luminance is divided by that many more. So if it’s a triangular wedge, then 1000/2 and reduced lux, but double the frequency at the same rpm. If a pyramid-like shape, then 1000/4 at 4× frequency at the same rpm. If it’s just one concaveish elliptical/scoop mirror, then that focused beam could retain the full brightness, at whatever rpm bas frequency.
You probably right, also I’m sure there will be many things discovered while making it that I never thought about before building. I was thinking about different additional functions that had nothing to do with illumination, if I’m spending time and effort building something from scratch, I want it to be unique in some ways, something that has not been tried before. However those ideas do not come up while you actively thinking about them, they come up accidentally while dealing with something completely unrelated.
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As the old adage goes…necessity is the mother of invention
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