Like robo819 shows above, dicing the phosphor off the substrate goes a long way towards eliminating the unwanted tint shift on the flip chip emitters.
When the dome is on it’s somewhat difficult to see where the die actually is, but once the dome is sliced off it’s much easier to see the actual die and make the vertical push cut down to the substrate, a flick outward then usually dispenses of the phosphor that is layered onto the substrate. I don’t do this so much for gaining throw as to rid the beam profile of the ugly tint shift in the aura. This is what I refer to as a slice and dice.
Built these 2 drivers (all 0603 components and legs bent in on tiny85’s)
Stacked them together, wired the Nitecore stock drivers switches and switch LED to them with 32AWG wire (first pic is first driver of stack up going in and being wired then second driver set down on top and wired)
Dual drivers tested and running, just waiting on mcpcb glue to dry to assemble it!
Edit teaser pic for now, video of running tint mixer light coming later once it’s dark out.
Your pics load slow, I think because you insert them full-res. You set them to display a screen percentage so it displays good, but the page still loads the full file sizes.
I use flickr and although it is a pain to extract the links for use in inline images, they do offer links for a variety of smaller sizes of your uploaded picture.
Thumbnail Suffix Thumbnail Name Thumbnail Size Keeps Image Proportions
s Small Square 90x90 No
b Big Square 160x160 No
t Small Thumbnail 160x160 Yes
m Medium Thumbnail 320x320 Yes
l Large Thumbnail 640x640 Yes
h Huge Thumbnail 1024x1024 Yes
Also I found ‘r’ makes 1456 x _, also keeping proportion. So even bigger than the “huge thumbnail”
And I found another, ‘g’ does 728x_ with proportion.
b:
t:
r:
“What did you mod today?”
I could better say; “what did I destroy today?”
Wanted to change the LEDs in de jaxman e2l for some LH351D’s.
First I desoldered the driver and wires.
Then I wanted to pry out the board.
I don’t know what type of glue they used but it doesn’t want to come out…
I lost my patience and went on a rampage, destroying the LEDs and led board.
And its still stuck in there.
Looks like I’m going to order a host and let this one sit for a while.
Ha Thijs, since the board is toast anyway, remove the driver and heat the head up to very very hot (not so hot as to decolour the ano) and see if the glue will give in.