Recoil?
ADDED: minute too late 
Yes! 
I wonât spoil all the other juicy details though, all Iâll say is that the mirror is gonna cost half a grand xD
Hey, youâre stealing my idea ! 
Well, i guess you have the funds for a reflector, and i donâtâŚ
Iâm obviously very interested in that project, canât wait to see more.
On another note:
This aspheric light, am i correct in noticing you blow the cooling air through the Wavien collar?
Arenât you afraid the surface will get dirty and / or oxidised?
I came up with the idea about 3 years ago, back when I didnât know anything about flashlight forums.
I got pretty excited when I saw the Uber thrower thread with people that had the same idea as me
Unfortunately it has already been patented, but I guess that means I donât need to worry about people stealing my designâŚor pay fees every year.
Until now Iâve been sticking to lenses because I thought they were better, but Iâm kinda hitting a wall, and the chromatic aberration I discovered in this thread makes me not like lenses as much anymore.
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Yes, most of the airflow goes through the collar.
Thanks to the mesh at the back of the flashlight I donât have to worry about large particles or insects getting inside the light or on the collar.
Some dust does settle, but very little since it is a very smooth surface and almost nothing sticks to it, the air just pushes right past.
Not really worried about it oxidizing, cold mirror coatings are pretty resistant to oxygen environments.
The reason I wanted lots of air flowing past the collar is to keep it from fogging up in high humidity environments, and water on it would almost certainly damage the coating.
How can one patent a parabolic mirror reflecting light in one direction?
Thatâs sillyâŚ
Yeah, of course it wasnât âmy ideaâ, i think it must have been invented discovered within a week of the invention of the âopen air arcâ electrical light (thatâs on 200+ Volts with 2 carbon rods and a big shunt resistor that can heat up a roomâŚ)
But i.m.o. an LED begs for a recoil light, since it emits light only one way, in a 120° cone, more or less.
I assume youâll be using a beam or cross made of heat pipes?
Looking forward to your reports.
Yeah, the rainbow / prism effect is always there with an aspheric.
This is why i was wondering about monochromatic light, like 580nm yellow.
I guess you could use a multi lens set up like cameras do, to avoid it? Complex and expensive of courseâŚ
There was also another one that I canât find again right now.
Itâs not just a reflector that is patented, but the invention of a reverse facing LED + parabolic reflector + cooling and housing design.
Itâs basically an entire product.
Iâll talk about LED cooling when I start the build log.
First Iâm applying for funding from my university.
Achromatic lenses are extremely expensive, and would need to be custom made even for the 120mm size of the optofire.
I want to go bigger, but lenses about 6-12â in diameter would simply be impossible to either produce or afford.
Also, there will always be some chromatic aberration and spherical aberration no matter how precise the aspheric lenses are.
Since a parabola is an easily defined mathematical shape it is a lot easier to manufacture reliably and more ideal for light collimation
HmmmâŚ
Itâs just a couple of ancient inventions combined i.m.h.o.
Okay, an LED is not ancientâŚ
Can you tell us what size reflector weâre talking about?
Should be pretty large for âhalf a grandâ 
Most patents are really just that, a combination of different technologies.
There are different types of patents, and itâs perfectly fine to take several other things and combine them into a new device that does something
Reflector will be 11â diameter.
I wanted to go with 12â for even more lux but there are several logistical issues which I will probably just avoid completely by going with 11.
According to my calculations 11â should be enough to pass the maxabeam, which is my upcoming goal
I only understand bits & pieces of the technical talkâŚâŚ
âŚâŚ BUT ââ I do understand â0 spillâ. ⌠:+1:
That sounds like my dream light EndermanâŚâŚ
11â :sunglasses:
Not quite portable thenâŚ
I totally agree.
But I donât think itâs fine to prevent others from doing so because they didnât make it to the patent office first.
It will actually be pretty flat, so the overall volume shouldnât be much bigger than my previous builds.
As long as it fits in my backpack, can be carried in one hand, and runs on batteries for a long time I consider it âportableâ
Obviously not a typical flashlight form factor, or EDC size, but it should still classify as a flashlight by definition.
Honestly your and djozzâs fresnel builds also fit the description so thatâs why theyâre on this list
Although I do personally prefer calling lights this size âsearchlightsâ instead of âflashlightsâ.
I posted a video, finally with a decent camera you can see something that isnât just pitch black 
Heavy fog at night, visibility less than 100m so the beam doesnât go very far, but itâs very visible and the people on the street were stopping to take pictures too
That torch is insane as the guy that built it.
In Australia they would probably lock you up for shining your light around like that. :person_facepalming:
Is that when The Bat Man showed up?
Thanks!
Gotta be careful!
During the summer where I was doing some other pics of this light there was a police officer watching me.
Didnât say anything though, but probably would have if I had been shining it at people/buildings.
That is when the bringer of light showed up
Wow . Super big flashlight
Youâre right, about the same size as one of those big handheld spotlights, just longer and thinner
Easily fits in a backpack though.
Very nice Enderman,
But now you are gonna be in CIA FBI and even KGB humans with suspicious behavior list.
But yes⌠Really crazy zooka you have